IP: Nader vs Hundt -- a series well worth reading

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

(Editor's Note: This week, Wired News is hosting a debate between Green 
Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader and Al Gore advisor Reed Hundt, 
former chairman of the FCC during the Clinton-Gore administration. The 
topic is technology policy. The other campaigns will have a chance to 
respond later in the week.)

Over the past eight years, Vice President Al Gore has been portrayed as the 
key member of the administration for a wide range of information policy 
issues. While the vice president has been unfairly criticized for 
overstating his role in the development of the Internet, he has not 
received enough recognition for the fundamental shortcomings of the 
administration's policies.

If there is a single overarching criticism of telecommunications policy, it 
is that the administration has rarely been willing to fight entrenched 
corporate entities on core public interest concerns, except in those cases 
where there was countervailing corporate power on the other side of a 
dispute. There are exceptions to this, of course, as I'm sure that Mr. 
Hundt will point out. But as a general observation, this is a fair criticism

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