IP: "the feds can control online content because they paid for DARPA"

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

I hope this is a missquote but... djf


>Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:29:15 +0200 (CEST)
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>Subject: "the feds can control online content because they paid for DARPA"
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> >Members of the committee asserted that the federal
> >government has power to regulate the form and content 
> >of online information as opposed to print,
> >where the government does not have such power ^ because
> >the federal government paid for the development of the Internet.
> >"The Internet is subject to market forces, but it didn't
> >start through market forces, it was started by the federal government," said
> >Jenifer Simpson, a committee member and manager of technology initiatives at
> >the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, in an
> >interview with Ziff
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>Is Jenifer Simpson a relative of Homer?  
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>Lock and load.  Safeties *off*.
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