I guess I'm both an IP purist and a pragmatist. Any concept IP is useless if it can't be applied and is not beneficial to the society.
The debate pits IP purists, who argue that the IETF should not encourage the use of interception proxies, against pragmatists, who argue that standardization of this common practice is useful.
Is Web caching bad for the Internet?: This is an interesting and complicated issue. You pretty much have to read the article to understand what the debate is about, it's really hard to summarize anything.
About Prospero, one of the providers of message board managing technology.
Community Studies - MANAGING ONLINE MESSAGE BOARD BRAWLS - Technology Is Helping Some Publishers Referee Melees: More an advertisement for said technology then an article with any real clues on how to handle the problem. It does mention that several newspapers have handled the problem by shutting down all message boards... I think it's valuable to study precedents, but I don't think I'd want to emulate these!
(Thanks to HTP.)
This is not a real marketplace. The marketplace incentives are towards increased control!
... we have given total control over key resources to [network connectivity] providers with a fundamental conflict of interest. They see their business as delivery content and fund it by selling access to the eyeballs (viewers) they control. Increasing connectivity gives viewers alternatives -- their "eyeballs" to escape. Encouraging innovation [on the part of those users] gives them very strong reasons to escape. Increasing Internet capacity is seen as coming at the price of the portion of the capacity that can be used for dedicated, high value, services.
More inline with the thrust of the essay:
I've told this to some people in just the last few months who can't believe that's true.