IP: "the feds can control online content because they paid for DARPA"

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

I hope this is a missquote but... djf


> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:29:15 +0200 (CEST)
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> Subject: "the feds can control online content because they paid for DARPA"
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> > Members of the committee asserted that the federal
> > government has power to regulate the form and content 
> > of online information as opposed to print,
> > where the government does not have such power ^ because
> > the federal government paid for the development of the Internet.
> > "The Internet is subject to market forces, but it didn't
> > start through market forces, it was started by the federal government," said
> > Jenifer Simpson, a committee member and manager of technology initiatives at
> > the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, in an
> > interview with Ziff
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> Is Jenifer Simpson a relative of Homer?  
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> Lock and load.  Safeties *off*.
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