Re: Expansion of the IAHC

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Eugene Kashpureff wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > If we are playing the quota game (which personally repulses me), two
> > members of the IAHC are based in Geneva (which on my map appears to be
> > within the European continent), Jun Murai is Japanese, Hank is in
> > Israel, and Geoff is in Australia.
> 
> And NONE of them have the recognition of their respective governments.

Based on various forums and lists that I have followed, I had always
assumed that the Internet community did *not* want government
intervention, ala Singapore or China.  Has this sentiment changed?

Inviting "official" govt reps means you open the Internet to govt policy,
which includes censorship and taxation (if you think there is censorship
and taxation now on the Internet, imagine if every country's gov't owned
and ran the Internet!).

Be careful what you ask for - you may get it.


> 
> Hardly International.
> 
> 
> At your name service,
> 
> Eugene Kashpureff, ALTERNIC.NET
> 

Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
[the views expressed above belong to the author and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the other IAHC members]