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Gingrich: No taxes on e-commerce, T1s for all

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the please-i-need-more-bandwidth dept.

P.J. Hinton writes "Newt Gingrich, of all people, is made some interesting remarks at the Internet Commerce Expo. He warned attendees to keep an eye on government efforts to regulate the net, exhorting them to keep the politicians and the press educated so that we don't have the "ignorant creating the impossible." He also drove home the need for high speed access in the home. His remark, "to have every home in America have a T1 line," is something that sounds good to me ;-). " No, not every home. Even just my home would be fine.

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  1. He makes a good point by T.J.Hooker · · Score: 4

    The impression I got from this is that he wants the internet community to become more involved with politics at an earlier level.

    To date, it seems that the internet community has been very reactive to laws, making protests at the late stages of laws being passed and such.

    I believe that newt would like to push internet politics to the front, make it a platform issue that people would have to vote on, not something that people discover only after they have elected someone to office.

    Also, any way you look at it, this is still a more intelligent comment than Al Gore "creating" the internet.

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  2. Popular Democracy by Bendeco · · Score: 3

    Your post makes me wonder if this will be the way popular democracy starts to become possible. It would be a cold day in hell before congress would directly enact such a system, but perhaps by having a more accessable route to our representatives, we can start actually make them represent us the people. In other words: "do their jobs".

  3. Cut Taxes To Pay For New T1 Lines! by angelo · · Score: 3

    sorry had to be said...

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