Flushing the Net Down the Tubes

netcetra writes "From a post by on CircleID by Phillip J. Windley: 'Doc Searls has written a brilliant piece framing the battle for the Net at Linux Journal. ... if you take the time to read just one essay on the Net and the politics surround it this year, read this one.' Quote from Doc himself: 'This is a long essay. There is, however, no limit to how long I could have made it. The subjects covered here are no less enormous than the Net and its future. Even optimists agree that the Net's future as a free and open environment for business and culture is facing many threats. We can't begin to cover them all or cover all the ways we can fight them. I believe, however, that there is one sure way to fight all of these threats at once, and without doing it the bad guys will win. That's what this essay is about.' Also see additional background on the piece on Doc Searls blog."

I sense a great disturbance in the force

[farker haiku]

as if millions of bytes of ram screamed in agony, and were suddenly silenced. /.ed before any comments isn't a good sign.

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Re:Timing?

[buswolley]

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Re:Getting rid of the trash.

[boog3r]

The other option to clean up the internet is teaching people the correct use of THEIR, THERE and THEY'RE.

Not to mention TWO, TOO and TO.

Don't forget about YOU'RE, YOUR and YORE.

Oops, almost forgot ITS and IT'S.

Re:Greed...

[Basehart]

"And make no mistake, we are in what future scholars will call the dark ages."

And those scholars will be in what future scholars will call the mauve ages.

Re:Getting rid of the trash.

[govt-serpent]

Of course we can delete the internet. Kris Kristofferson could do it. There's that device to delete the internet inside the president's desk.

Re:Searls overstates his case

[Anonymous Coward]

I want to visit that link but its blocked by Websense as an "advocacy website", how is it advocacy if its the creator of the web?...

This guy is a hack!

[brunes69]

I mean, he loses credibility in the first sentence.. "This is a long essay. There is, however, no limit to how long I could have made it.". Of course there is a limit!

We all know that the number of computer bits that man could ever possibly compute [physicsweb.org] is 1.35x(10^20), so his essay could *never* be more than that long, or else it would neve rbe completed.

Foolish!

Re:When I meet a single person...

[jez9999]

So married people are less likely to commit copyright violations? :-)