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To quote Kyle's mom: What!? What!?!? What?!?!?!?

Anyone know anything about this?

Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> [And a response at the end from our very own Lizard. --DBM]
> 
> ********
> 
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 13:24:43 -0400
> To: declan AT well.com
> From: Jeff Chester <jeff AT cme.org>
> Subject: another do-gooder event
> 
> You may want to let your list know about.  Best and thanks
> 
> The Future of Noncommercial Broadband Communications at Risk
> 
> Preserving the Internet's Openness, Freedom, and Diversity
> 
>          Speakers include Rep. Ed Markey, FTC Commissioner Mozelle
> Thompson, Dave Farber, Lawrence Lessig, other experts
> 
> Dear Colleague:
> 
> The Center for Digital Democracy and the Center for Media Education
> cordially invites you to participate in a conference on the future of the
> Internet in the broadband era on Wednesday, 9 May 2001, at the Carnegie
> Endowment for International Peace (1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington 
> DC).
> The Net is at an important crossroads, and we may soon lose meaningful
> access to this new medium.   Such a development will negatively impact our
> civil liberties, limit diversity of information and ownership, harm our
> ability to inform and advocate online, and restrict competition. The public
> interest broadband conference will describe how the media industry giants
> are restructuring the digital media system, fashioning a system that
> extends their control over the media beyond television to the
> Internet.  Instead of an open network, media conglomerates are spending
> billions to create what they call "walled gardens," but which are really
> new forms of electronic enclosures designed to ensure that they will
> continue to dominate the media system.
> Unless they act soon, nonprofit organizations will find it difficult to
> operate in an online environment that favors big business over small,
> e-commerce over e-democracy, and public relations over public service.
> That's why it's important to begin exploring new means of collective action
> in the online world, new ways of preserving space for noncommercial,
> public-interest programming, and for directing traffic to the sources of
> information and interactivity that will prove vital to our society in the
> twenty-first century.
> Additional speakers will include: Dr. Patricia Aufderheide, American
> University,  Timothy Denton, attorney, Canadian Association of Internet
> Providers, Stewart Harris,  Public Webworks, Stephen Heins, Northnet, and
> Barry Steinheart, ACLU.
> Please join us in discussing these important issues, and in exploring
> further collaboration in the broadband era:
> 
> 9 May 2001
> 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
> Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
> 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW
> Washington D.C. 20036-2103
> RSVP: 202-232-2872
> Agoldman AT cme.org
> Seating is limited.
> Lunch will be provided
> 
> The conference is made possible through the generous support of the Center
> for the Public Domain, the Albert A. List Foundation, and the J. Roderick
> MacArthur Foundation.
> 
> *********
> 
> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 10:41:59 -0700
> From: lizard <lizard AT mrlizard.com>
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan AT well.com>
> 
>  >The Future of Noncommercial Broadband Communications at Risk
>  >
>  >Preserving the Internet's Openness, Freedom, and Diversity
>  >
>  >         Speakers include Rep. Ed Markey, FTC Commissioner Mozelle
>  > Thompson, Dave Farber, Lawrence Lessig, other experts
>  >
>  >Dear Colleague:
>  >
>  >The Center for Digital Democracy and the Center for Media Education
>  >cordially invites you to participate in a conference on the future of the
>  >Internet in the broadband era on Wednesday, 9 May 2001, at the Carnegie
>  >Endowment for International Peace (1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington
> DC).
> 
> <deletia>
> 
> Since cyberspace is infinite -- add another hard disk, and you 'create
> space', whence cometh the need to 'preserve space'?
> 
> Rather, it seems, the folks behind this want to preserve their OWN
> 'walled gardens' -- the internet equivalents of PBS and NPR, which exist
> to serve the elite but which are funded by the masses. I assure you, the
> 'public spaces' they desire to build will not contain TRULY
> non-mainstream content. They will not host the Nuremberg Files, NAMBLA,
> Stormfront, Bonsaikittens, or the like. They will host the mainstream
> non-mainstream, the sort of stuff acceptable to academics, rich
> liberals, and corporate donors.
> 
> I challenge any of those speaking at this conference to say, directly,
> "We wish to use public tax dollars to guarantee that Nazis and NAMBLA
> will always have web space." Do any of them dare do this? I doubt it.
> 
> cc'ed to Mr/Ms Goldman.
> 
> *********
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