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RE: Nader Wants Internet Control (Wired)
My 2 cents:
Nader is of course off the mark to even suggest the idea of something that
altho' potentially useful, looks like a world-class bureaucracy, democratic
or otherwise.
On the other hand, McCullagh and Morehead are equally off the mark if, as
the tone suggests, it should be hands off. In the USA, the FTC regulates
consumer fraud. And in Asia?
Many moons ago now, I wrote of some of these differences in an article that
ran in the AWSJ in April 1999. A scanned copy is available at:
http://www.medialaw.com.sg/awsj.jpg
My point is that e-commerce has taken off in the USA because of the
confidence consumers can have in their consumer law. And who should be
thanked for that if not Nader?
Regards, Ang Peng Hwa
-----Original Message-----
From: David Goldstein
To: APPLe
Sent: 1/17/01 3:50 PM
Subject: Nader Wants Internet Control (Wired)
Nader Wants Internet Control
by Declan McCullagh and Nicholas Morehead
8:25 a.m. Jan. 10, 2001 PST
WASHINGTON -- To most people, the Internet is a way to communicate,
an untapped business opportunity, or a symbol of dot-com greed run
amok.
Not so Ralph Nader. The former Green Party presidential candidate
sees an opportunity for a new global bureaucracy.
On Tuesday, Nader called for the creation of a "World Consumer
Protection Organization," comparable to the United Nations' World
Intellectual Property Organization, only "more democratically run."
See http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,41106,00.html for
the full article.
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