roundtable: Re: THREAT: a "mass-media" cyberspace model

roundtable: Re: THREAT: a "mass-media" cyberspace model

Re: THREAT: a "mass-media" cyberspace model

Matt York (myork@videomaker.com)
Tue, 28 Feb 1995 08:21:11 -0800 

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 08:21:11 -0800
Message-Id: <199502281621.IAA01287@video.hidden.videomaker.com>
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: myork@videomaker.com (Matt York)
Subject: Re: THREAT: a "mass-media" cyberspace model


>What is maddening about the "grinch stealing cyberspace" is that it
>does take enormous investments of money to construct the broadband
>highway envisioned in the NII or GII, and that this money will come 
>only from the cable, telco, and media conglomerates, who then feel 
>entitled to control what they have built.
>
>     Rick Moore has a way of cutting through to the essence of
>the problem, just as Vigdor's recent post about the G7 showed that
>social, cultural, and artistic implications of the GII are being
>given short shrift. Hence the frustration.
>
>     What can be done? Realistically the big players -and even
>perhaps the Clinton administration - have no overriding motive
>to take these criticisms and concerns seriously. Rick's idea that
>the future of cyberspace will be like broadcast TV is particularly
>chilling.
>
>     Essentially those who own the press have fredom of the press,
>and those who construct the new cyberspace have freedom to use it
>as they see fit - which will be to exclude speech, such as much of 
>our's, which challenges their right to do so.
>
>Jeff Briggs
><jbriggs@capital.edu>


You say that "Rick's idea that the future of cyberspace will be like
broadcast TV is particularly chilling." Isn't the present condition of
broadcast TV chilling now. Why should we stand by and allow conduit 
owners to dictate what is transmitted to millions of minds?

Matt York
<myork@videomaker.com>

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