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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 12:58 PM
Response to Reply #39
44. Maybe.
"Schools" and "universities"? Maybe, but disturbing a class would need mitigating.
"hospitals"? Maybe (national healthcare? but patient privacy mitigates)
"many non profits"? You mean like a Church?

Library? Perhaps. Perhaps even probably.

I definitely wouldn't be comfortable with the public being able to access
publicly paid for nuclear materials.

A library is closely analogous to the Internet, simply a source of information. No bombs or weapons are there.

Should the Internet become a private resource? Is it already one?

But it is a curious idea, that public tax money should remain public property and be used only for the 'common good'. (I forget, what is the constitutional phrase? General welfare?)

I wonder how it would work out if the commons of the airwaves were in fact publicly instead of privately owned. Would MSM be as concerned about pleasing their boss?

A lot of this really pushes the envelope of what this particular case is about: brutality and projection and pecking order and punishing of those who are imperfectly (humanly) attempting to comply (he was leaving because he apparently didn't have ID).
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