SOTL wrote:
>On Thursday 09 June 2005 16:26, Craig Zeigler wrote:
>
>
>>SOTL wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thursday 09 June 2005 10:23, Mavrick wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On 6/9/05, Eric Jahn <eric@ejahn.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I don't know if Sarasotans all knew about this:
>>>>>http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2005/05/09/daily5.html
>>>>>http://www.82degreestech.com/Article.aspx?B4DBB6B4=8A
>>>>>BodyID:15825961.2.n.logpart (stored separately)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Very very cool. The city of Dunedin FL (just north of Clearwater) is
>>>>planning on doing the same thing, only it will encompass the ENTIRE
>>>>town (downtown and neighborhoods as well). Ain't technology great?!
>>>>
>>>>http://sptimes.com/2005/05/07/Northpinellas/Dunedin_Web_surfers_c.shtml
>>>>
>>>>Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>Eric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>The only thing that bothers me about government offering internet service
>>>is that then government believes that government has the right to filter
>>>what one may do, view, say or listen to.
>>>
>>>Frank
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>>I think thats true of anyone providing something like that. If I
>>permitted anonymous access to the internet through my WAPs, then I have
>>the right to filter what you can and (more importantly) can't see since
>>it can reflect on me.
>>
>>If someone is doing something evil on the Internet and originating from
>>my network, I'm partly responsible for that content.
>>
>>
>
>If the government is providing internet access to the citizens of a location
>then the only way that that activity is being supported is through taxes
>which means that: first this is not a private network so you do not have the
>right to filter content and second that if you do not choose to use the
>existing public network then you do not get your taxes back. The effect is
>then that a small group of wackos have the gall to limit what you can view,
>hear, or access while forcing you to pay for the privilege of limiting your
>rights on a network that you are part owner of. This of course is the same
>situation that currently exist with public schools. One should likewise
>expect similar results high cost and poor quality and an inability to escape.
>
>Frank
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Why do I smell the beginning of a flame war. If you have a problem with
not being able to surf porn on Main street... don't use it. That is of
course my opinion, and opinions are like (your know what). everyone has
one, they all stink and no one wants to hear any but their own.
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