The Angry Drunk

Brilliant arti­cle from Matthew Lasar at Ars Technica exam­in­ing the issues sur­round­ing gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tion of the Internet though the lens of the issues sur­round­ing the tele­graph sys­tem. I think that, all too often, the tech pun­di­toc­racy tends to ignore the thou­sands of years of human his­tory that pro­ceeded the last decade.