TAP Controversy: Lawrence Lessig, Round Two
Internet/Weblog Culture
6/5/2000; 7:18:13 AM April 25, 2000: TAP Controversy: Lawrence Lessig, Round Two: "But Raymond believes that no regulation is necessary here. That apparently the invisible hand will save us from networks of control. Where's the evidence? Putting aside ideology for a moment, can you point to one example in the history of the United States where owners of a telecommunications network voluntarily architected that network as open and maintained it over time as such? The Internet is not an example: It was, through the telephone network and the conditions the government placed on its birth, heavily regulated. So where else beyond the Internet?"