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Huzzah to that Citizen

Most agree that Web 2.0 is characterized by WikiPedia and Google. But we can also describe it as mobile and broadband. It is the latter that is being challenged by those who would use a study from 2005 with less than 2000 sampled to harm us.

Lets first recognize what makes a US citizen different from most others. It is not free market related. It is the fundamental belief that individuals must be able to protect themselves from government. We didn't break from England for nothing.

Our kind looks to individuals to identify the deceitful and wrong doers. We do not look to government for that service because we know how the rich and powerful influence government. We know how Microsoft and companies like it release Abramoffs to spread corruption in government and we know how EU government officials are apt to take bribes or promise of bribes or career paths or a long string of payments for legal costs without doing anything meaningful regarding criminals. The Italian and Irish mobs are just two examples.

Let me speak about Seattle. In the 1980s a local businessman of Italian decent from the Lake City area of Seattle was implicated in 5 gang style killings - including the killing of a police informant. Eventually he spent a few years in prison for tax evasion. This Sunday the Seattle Times had a front page story on the 90 plus year old strip club owner and how the Federal Government had reopened the murder case. Last year the strip club operation had been caught distributing campaign contributions to City Counsel members with the pay off being a zoning change so that a parking lot could be expanded. This is the reality of living in Seattle. It likely is the reality in many US cities. I still wonder about the Microsoft manager whoes hand was cut off found dead a year or so ago and Gray, the 99.999 database guy who was lost mysteriously at sea a few months ago after the congressional testimony regarding Microsoft's roll in the Itanium scandal (HP identity theft scandal)

Even though scandal sells news papers, the suppression of scandal has also been profitable. Mobsters are well know for paying editors to change headlines, soften stories, and time them for the masses so they do less harm to their organizations. Only today these stories get distributed on Web 2.0 by good citizens who just want their families to be safe and they scoop the papers big time.

We are in a good place in the USA because - unlike "civilized" EU nations we still believe there is an absolute truth. In addition we are allowed to vent with the only punishment being potentially marginalized as Kool-Aid drinkers. Every US citizen can put up a web page alerting others of the deceitful and dishonest and (if the wrong doer is a public person) there is nothing the wrong doer can do legally. IE they can not threaten court cases. Think what will be our world when cell phone films involving police actions are posted. Then move that to films of other public figures in the act of wrong doing. Think about how free markets are inhibited by that wrong doing.

I remain unconvinced by your arguments that bandwidth currently used for TV in the US can be sold to private corporations and provide more value than if left fully under government control. Remember that in the last day's of Enron, the company had implemented a conspiracy to control the leasing of fiber which would allow the company to create artificial shortages that could be used to harm consumers with high prices. We in the US have the opportunity to advance our society far beyond the 17 nations with higher standards of living. This opportunity is a function of Web 2.0 and the airwaves we currently control.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 05/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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