To: Stoat
Coming soon: Everyone will be required to apply for a license to use the Internet because it’s a privilege, not a right, and governments everywhere could really use the cash to teach us all how to distinguish between good content and bad.
4 posted on
02/12/2008 10:31:11 AM PST by
Stevieboy
To: Stevieboy
Everyone will be required to apply for a license to use the Internet because its a privilege, not a right, The British already require a license to *own* a TV.
8 posted on
02/12/2008 10:39:55 AM PST by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Stevieboy
Didn’t Howard Dean already propose something like that here in the US? (not kidding)
To: Stevieboy
Coming soon: Everyone will be required to apply for a license to use the Internet because its a privilege, not a right, and governments everywhere could really use the cash to teach us all how to distinguish between good content and bad. So then when The UK Times newspaper offers a free MP3 download...and in order to obtain that download I am forced to supply an email address....and when I supply a fake email address because I don't want to be spammed, have I broken the law because I've "subverted the legal acquisition process" ?
And when I put that same mp3 file up on the Bit Torrent network or share it via another P2P, have I also broken the law?
17 posted on
02/12/2008 10:51:40 AM PST by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stevieboy
Coming soon: Everyone will be required to apply for a license to use the Internet because its a privilege, not a right, and
You do realize that in the UK you already have to have a license just to own a TV or a radio? Even if the TV is not hooked up to cable or an antenna and is only used for videos you still need a license to have it.
18 posted on
02/12/2008 10:57:05 AM PST by
TalonDJ
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