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Tim Wu: The Man Who is Destroying the Tech Industry
American Thinker ^ | March 29th | Joshua Lipana

Posted on 04/04/2011 10:17:40 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

Tim Wu, the coiner of the term "network neutrality", and a senior adviser to the FTC, has an interesting solution to solve the non-existent problems plaguing the tech industry. As The Chronicle of Higher Education reports:

"In the class at MIT, Wu floats some hypothetical ways you could fight abuse... "something like term limits for monopolists. In theory, the government could say, 'Well, this company has clearly shown it's corrupt. ... So let's just nationalize their source code.'"

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Politics; Reference
KEYWORDS: freepress; marxism; netneutrality; timwu
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To: SengirV; Notary Sojac

Here is the other of two threads which are good starters.

==========In theory, the government could say, ‘Well, this company has clearly shown it’s corrupt. ... So let’s just nationalize their source code.===========

Does that sound like freedom to you? Or does it sound like marxism?

Tim Wu is the father of “net neutrality”.


21 posted on 04/28/2011 8:46:24 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality - I say a lot of unneutral things.)
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To: BobL

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22 posted on 04/29/2011 5:13:50 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality - I say a lot of unneutral things.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
"'Well, this company has clearly shown it's corrupt. ... So let's just nationalize their source code.'"

Ha!

'Well, this company government has clearly shown it's corrupt. ... So let's just nationalize their source code go back to 1776 .'"

23 posted on 04/29/2011 5:23:32 PM PDT by TruthConquers (.Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: TruthConquers

:)


24 posted on 05/02/2011 10:23:32 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality - I say a lot of unneutral things.)
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