FC: Jim DeLong: Tech industry, prisoner of K Street?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Prisoners of K Street
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:36:54 -0500
From: "James V. Delong" <JDeLong () cei org>
To: "Declan McCullagh (E-mail)" <declan () well com>

 Declan -
Re your piece this morning.
Best,
Jim

 http://www.cei.org/utils/printer.cfm?AID=1923

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   Prisoners of K Street
   UpDates
   by James V. DeLong
   November 1, 2000

                            From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate

   Recently I was talking with Roger Cochetti, VP of Network Solutions
   and experienced observer of the high tech scene. "The Internet is at a
   fork," he said. "Over the next couple of years it could be confirmed
   in its existence as a free-market, free-wheeling, chaotic, fount of
   imaginative innovation and multiplying value. Or it could go down the
   road taken by broadcasting and telephone, becoming regulated, stodgy,
   hostile to technical progress, and lawyer-driven."

   These comments are serious. A couple of years ago, members of Congress
   boasted that they knew enough to keep their hands off the Internet.
   They must have lost some brain cells since, because in the current
   session over 400 bills were introduced to govern the Internet in one
   way or another. Congress is even adopting the device of sticking
   mandates into appropriations bills, without hearings or real thought.
   You want to require all schools and libraries that get federal funds
   to impose filtering? No problem-insert it into in an appropriations
   bill.

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