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From: eric@snark.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Relevance of Daiell's postings
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Date: 19 Nov 88 00:46:32 GMT
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I don't consider Jeff Daiell's postings 'intellectually fascinating'; he's
a poor writer, cruder than he needs to be and (as you correctly point out)
repetitious.

Nevertheless, he has hold of a basic moral truth that you, with all your
sophistication, are still evading. There is no 'public money'; there is
only stolen or extorted private money, and advocating *more* tax-funded
boondoggles makes one accessory before the fact to more crime.

I agree that nation- and world-wide data highways are a good idea. I am
therefore confident that the free market will build them, and drive the cost
of use down to a triviality. Government intervention can only slow down
this process, or (worse) pervert it to totalitarian ends.

I agree that information freedom is important. Unlike some members of this
list, I am putting *my own* time and energy into work towards this goal,
rather than arguing for more theft-by-government to fund it. Go thou and
do likewise.

eric@snark.uu.net = eric%snark@uunet.uu.net     -->     Eric S. Raymond