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>John wrote:
>> But a tax on advertising conducted in the broadcast media--radio and
>> television--and the internet (developed entirely by government money and
>> conducted over interstate and national lines) is almost certainly
>> unobjectionable (note that I am not a lawyer but a well-read layman)
>> because, according to Congress, the airwaves belong to the public. If we
>> choose to charge users' a fee -- a tax -- for access to our airwaves ...
>
At 07:43 26/04/98 -0400, David Appell wrote:
> ... bandwidth on the Internet is not inherently limited as it is in the
>electromagnetic spectrum. [ & a reference to international advertisers]
>
** A little point, not inherently economic but _I_ think relevant:
I am seriously turned off by the serial media: TV and radio, in contrast
with the parallel media: newspapers, magazines, and even the internet.
With the latter, I can focus on the editorial content, bypassing the
advertising (which I abhor - I'm not able to stay in the same room with the
TV when it's showing advertising).
The fact that the owner of the medium can force (most of the) viewers /
listeners to sit there through the ads violates their rights of privacy and
to control what they think about, as well as simply wasting their time.
Commercial serial media are much too close to brainwashing, in my view.
David.
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David MacClement <davd@geocities.com> and <d_macclement@yahoo.co.nz>
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