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Article #31Re: Universal Access Conversation May 4-15 - Markle Foun
From: David Schwartz
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00
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>Various people have given various arguments over time in favor of
>income/wealth redistribution. I find some points of such arguments to
>be persuasive. (Note: I won't choose to debate them in this forum,
>because they are not highly germane to the commercialization and
>privatization of the Internet.)
[snip]
>I'm not wiling to tell anyone else that I know better than them how to
>use their resources. Who's to say that a year of Internet access is
>'more important' to a poor person than, say, books for their children,
>or an improved diet, or, for that matter, going to a restaurant or a
>movie from time to time? Not me.
Oh, God! Pete, tell me you don't see the contradiction here. I can't
believe you!
DS
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 119e45,4c7693634515be41 X-Google-Attributes: gid119e45,public From: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz) Subject: Re: Universal Access Conversation May 4-15 - Markle Foun Date: 1998/04/29 Message-ID: <002e01bd73b1$49255170$023259cf@whenever.youwant.to> X-Deja-AN: 348867671 Sender: daemon@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at Organization: WU-Wien News Gate: com-priv@lists.psi.com to at.mail.com-priv by usenet@wu-wien.ac.at Reply-To: davids@webmaster.com Newsgroups: at.mail.com-priv