Friday, August 23, 2002

What he said The very thing the most conservative among us have dreamt of, have died for since the founding of this country, is now within our grasp: free markets, free speech, worldwide. And we're blowing it because some dinosaur companies insist on maintaining their grip on every last dollar before their industry dies. 500 million of us can see how close it is, how the world economy would blossom, how the human spirit would get dizzy with possibility, and we're arguing about how we can best prevent it? We should be talking about how we can explode the barriers. The whole remarkable piece by David Weinberger is here. It puts the question on a level worthy of public discussion (and kind of shows the mutterings of Valenti, Berman et al seem what they are: undigestibly vile.) Are any of our allegedly elected representatives even listening to David, or to Lessig and Gillmor? 12:08:48 PM

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