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March 5, 2005
Hold that thought
This is not so good: the FCC wants to crack down on people expressing themselves on the internet. This could be a problem, given the ideas that the brains over at the FCC have come up with (vis - "if you owned a computer, you'd have to calculate what percentage of the computer cost and electricity went to political advocacy").
The problem here is that the FCC is trying to use a capital-infrastructure model to "value" pure thought. This can only result in a horrible mess of rules, or an outright ban on free speech.
But after reading Rebecca's post on life in a friendly middle east country, I see it could be a lot worse.
Posted by pgutwin at March 5, 2005 9:10 PM