| David Mandl on Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:15:35 +0100 (CET) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Re: The old, government-controlled internet |
That was my point. In the eyes of a CEO, the only possibilities in the world are "free market" (in this case a corporate-dominated internet, with privacy trounced on and advertising everywhere) or "government control" (I bet he was tempted to say "socialist"). This is a classic false dichotomy. He has no idea what he's talking about, or hopes that no reading the interview will call him on it. --D. On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Guy Van Belle wrote: > Well, if I remember well, there was no advertising, but it wasn't really > controlled at all. First of all, governments in Europe were totally > unaware of it, and secondly, only academics were on it, and in any case > you could set up and do what you wanted! And put on your own server what > you wanted! No one was claiming anything, while now I have 3 copyright > claims running for some stupid beginning of the century poststamp gif > reproductions I used for educational sites! > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, David Mandl wrote: > > > >From an interview with Kevin O'Connor, CEO of Double Click (now under > > attack for invasion of web-surfers' privacy) in today's Guardian > > (U.K.): > > > > "There are people on the net who want to go back to the old days when > > there was no advertising and it was government controlled." > > > > This was printed as a large pull-quote, btw. > > > > --Dave. > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > -- Dave Mandl [email protected] [email protected] http://www.wfmu.org/~davem _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold