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RE: Nader Wants Internet Control (Wired)
Before trusting too much to Wired, it may be worth also looking at Jamie
Love's paper on the same subject <http://www.cptech.org/ecom/cpt-wcpo.html>
Adam
>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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