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 ...
ping
He wants to nationalize their source code.
Do you agree with that?
Still think I’m kidding about him being a marxist? Or about Free Press being a marxist group?
Tim Wu is clearly not kidding about Tim Wu being a marxist.
The huffington post has a puff piece interview with Tim Wu
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-pasternack/a-video-interview-with-ti_b_838746.html
It’s loaded with the typical talking points. There’s all these big bad guys around, and only government can save you.
Reardon Metal, source code, what's the difference?
It's time for John Galt to appear. Some large company has got to disobey the federal government, or we are lost.
Ping.
‘Well, this company has clearly shown it’s corrupt. ... So let’s just nationalize their source code.’
No trial in a court of law required...
you gotta be wise as a serpent these days.
cmon fella. Big corporations got us here. Now you want one to be your Saviour? WWJGD?
I don’t agree with government control of the internet. I don’t believe the government should be able to nationalize anything. I believe in free enterprise and letting the customers (web users in this case) decide with whom and when to do business. Government should not be restricting that.
Big Corporations do not go Galt. Only the little guys can do that. In the book there were corporate leaders who went Galt but this meant abandoning the corporation to the slagheap of government or destroying it on the way out.
Even Taggert Transcontinental continued to be controlled by the looters to the end.
Tim Wu (2011) - ‘Well, this company has clearly shown it’s corrupt. ... So let’s just nationalize their source code.’
Wesley Mouch (Atlas Shrugged 1957)- “We must make Rearden Metal available to everyone...”
Life imitates art...
My EXACT thought...
*WE* are john galt. You and I. And everybody else around here.
But the time for shrugging was a long time ago.
Tax day and those tea parties can’t get here soon enough. I already have the day off so I can go attend the local rallies.
One's just greed, the other would be a remedy in an abuse of monopoly case where a company has used its power to distort the free market.
Well, there is that whole "creating the Internet" thing the government did.
I thought some colleges and stuff did it by linking computers via phone lines. Someone would have done that sooner or later.
Computers had been connected before. The ARPANET introduced packet switching, the basis of the modern Internet. ARPA (the government) contracted a company to build what were essentially routers. These routers were installed at various institutions doing research for ARPA, such as universities. Gore's famous "invented the Internet" comment actually has some truth to it, as the 1991 "Gore Bill" funded an expansion of NSFNet (successor to the ARPANET), into what we know as the Internet today, and funded the creation of the first graphical web browser, Mosaic.
Would the Internet have come around without all this? I don't know. Up until even the early 90s, commercial interests were all caught up in walled-garden online communities such as Compuserve, AOL and Prodigy. Even Microsoft thought such things would be the future up until 1995, dismissing that Internet toy.
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