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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The point is that people who *have no access* will be paying taxes to support people who *do* have access.
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Why? Cause you say so?
You don't think it can be a factor if the tax payer has an Internet connection at home and which speed of download and upload it is at?
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
there's nothing reasonable about gov't funded art that's decided by internet popularity.
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Everything is reasonable about it. Governments around the world already pay artists based on popularity for TV, Radio, Museums, Libraries in many countries. The Internet can be much more reasonable at measuring popularity.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
and who's keeping the porn away from the kiddies? Who's making sure the adults who want porn have access to it?
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Well if you want to know, it's quite easy to filter adult-only material at the DNS level and simply make it a part of the deal, that the adult at the residence has to unlock access to adult-only material using an online control panel. This is in talks to be implemented in Australia, the UK and probably many more countries. There is a logical way to implement this so that it has got nothing to do with censorship. Also with a direct email based communication with your Government, the adult can be instantly warned of any encrypted proxy open DNS type of activity on the connection.
See the latest about the Australian child protection DNS level filtering system:
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/...-15302,00.html
It'll be very effective to protect the Children and it will not slow down the Internet or disrupt free speech if implemented intelligently.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Has it occurred to you that many people prefer TV to internet because they like what's on TV?
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Has it occured to you that everything that is on TV can be found on the Internet and played back on-demand whenever you want?
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Because they don't want to waste a dozen hours browsing through a hundred websites and three hundred blogs, trying to find the one with content they'll enjoy?
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Well don't worry, it'll be a one click process to get instant access to any movie or TV show ever made, just as any video-blog post or web video ever put on the Internet.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Saying "oh, taxes can be variable" is meaningless--you haven't said how they'll vary, or who'll be deciding on the variations. You seem to assume that "the Government" is a noble entity that will do so fairly, without any ideas about what "fair" means in cold hard numbers.
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Again, if you insist, people can easily be taxed based on their home Internet bandwidth speed. This tax can be levied at the ISP level. Not all taxes are income taxes. And even if you do take it as part of the income tax, then obviously people wil lower income would pay less and they are as well less likely to have the Internet at home. So I suggest you drop your argument.