Loose Democracy
June 12, 2004

Slashing the FCC

From Bob Frankston, on the Dave Farber list (I believe):

...we should require that the Federal Speech Commission [= FCC, ed.] explain why it must (as per the US first amendment) regulate communications (meaning) now that we know that the bits do not have intrinsic meaning and the Internet demonstrates that the scarcity of transport was caused by the regulation of meaning.

My current sound bite is that the Internet is the result of the / between TCP/IP. We now need put the slash in tele/communications to separate transport from meaning.

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Frankly, I could not even make sense of that sentence.

You might just as well say "The printing press demonstrates that the scarcity of transport was caused by the regulation of meaning".

What in the world does that even *mean*?

It all sounded like "The government is bad because the Internet proves it's a New Era". You can get a lot of pundit-points for saying that in clever ways.

Posted by Seth Finkelstein on June 12, 2004 02:47 PM | Permalink to Comment

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