Manchurian Books

Resources which were considered "free",
suddenly are transformed to "national treasures not to be
dispensed with cheaply, casually and with frivolity".
It is conceivable that certain parts of the Internet will be
"nationalized" (for instance, in the form of a licensing
requirement) and tendered to the private sector. Legislation
will be enacted which will deal with permitted and disallowed
content (obscenity ? incitement ? racial or gender bias ?) No
medium in the USA (not to mention the wide world) has eschewed
such legislation. There are sure to be demands to allocate
time (or space, or software, or content, or hardware) to
"minorities", to "public affairs", to "community business".
This is a tax that the business sector will have to pay to
fend off the eager legislator and his nuisance value.
All this is bound to lead to a monopolization of hosts and
servers. The important broadcast channels will diminish in
number and be subjected to severe content restrictions. Sites
which will refuse to succumb to these requirements - will be
deleted or neutralized.


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