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Subject:    [ISN] In Response To: "Bring in the Cyberpolice"
From:       mea culpa <jericho () DIMENSIONAL ! COM>
Date:       1999-11-07 6:32:15
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From: "Ender Wiggin" <editor@aviary-mag.com>

In Response To: Bring in the Cyberpolice
11/4/99

Original Article:

        Bring in the Cyberpolice
        by Christopher Watts
        Forbes, November 1, 1999
        page 112

Warning and Disclaimer

Every once in a while a new article comes across my desk that I just have
to respond to. In most cases I try to present additional ideas or a new
viewpoint and often agree with the original article. This article will be
different. I'd like to apologize in advance for the more insulting tone
this article will take. The article I am responding to rubs every last
nerve in my body and just screams "What in the hell were you thinking?".
My response will also contian more questions than usual. Questions that
will not be answered by me, as I am posing them to the subject of this
article in an attempt to point out how thoroughly naive and unthoughtful
he was before making his comments. For those who dig articles beset with
flames, you will no doubt have fun!

Original Article Summary and Relevant Quotes

Christopher Watts devotes a couple of pages to ideas on Internet
regulation and funding from Robert Cailliau, a 52-year-old Belgian native
who heads Web communications at CERN and spends much of his time with the
International World Wide Web Consortium (a standards-setting body). Some
of the more interesting parts of the article lead to an abundance of
questions.

  "We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is
that there's a total meltodwn of the system and that it becomes unusable.
That would be a catastrophe. We must regulate [the Web] if we want to have
some civilization left. And it's getting urgent."

                                     - Robert Cailliau

  How would Cailliau make the Web more civil and less chaotic? His
controversial idea is that we should find some means other than banner ads
to finance it. "The forced influence of advertising has given us
completely useless TV," he notes. "You don't want that on the Net. But
most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which
slows downloads and clutters the screen with windows."

Continued at: http://www.aviary-mag.com/Martin/Untitled/untitled.html

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