[IP] An LA Times interview on South Park and the Internet or, an Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Bob Frankston [Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:25 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: An LA Times interview on South Park and the Internet or, an Internet

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/04/south-parks-int.html

It gives a good overview and understanding of their understanding of the Internet from a “content” point of view. It’s worth also listening to the audio portions. It gives a good sense on the interplay between the Internet and commercial productions.

I appreciate their savvy but we also need to remember that it’s only one way to think about the Internet – there isn’t a sense of the Internet as basic infrastructure. The Internet is such a general concept that it’s all-too-easy to confuse one’s deep insight from a single perspective with understanding. This is the problem with so much of the NN debate and the arcane details of particular protocols as if we could manage the current broadband paths against arbitrary metrics.

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