[IP] Jim DeLong: Tech industry, prisoner of K Street?

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:50:25 -0500
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Subject: FC: Jim DeLong: Tech industry, prisoner of K Street?


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Subject: Prisoners of K Street
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:36:54 -0500
From: "James V. Delong" <JDeLong@cei.org>
To: "Declan McCullagh (E-mail)" <declan@well.com>

  Declan -
Re your piece this morning.
Best,
Jim

  http://www.cei.org/utils/printer.cfm?AID=1923

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    Prisoners of K Street
    UpDates
    by James V. DeLong
    November 1, 2000

                             From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate

    Recently I was talking with Roger Cochetti, VP of Network Solutions
    and experienced observer of the high tech scene. "The Internet is at a
    fork," he said. "Over the next couple of years it could be confirmed
    in its existence as a free-market, free-wheeling, chaotic, fount of
    imaginative innovation and multiplying value. Or it could go down the
    road taken by broadcasting and telephone, becoming regulated, stodgy,
    hostile to technical progress, and lawyer-driven."

    These comments are serious. A couple of years ago, members of Congress
    boasted that they knew enough to keep their hands off the Internet.
    They must have lost some brain cells since, because in the current
    session over 400 bills were introduced to govern the Internet in one
    way or another. Congress is even adopting the device of sticking
    mandates into appropriations bills, without hearings or real thought.
    You want to require all schools and libraries that get federal funds
    to impose filtering? No problem-insert it into in an appropriations
    bill.

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