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[Nickbat]

...from Microsoft?

"The American blogosphere is going increasingly “viral” about a proposal advanced at the recent meeting of the Davos Economic Forum by Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, that an equivalent of a “driver’s licence” should be introduced for access to the web. This totalitarian call has been backed by articles and blogs in Time magazine and the New York Times."

"As bloggers have not been slow to point out, the system being proposed is very similar to one that the government of Red China reluctantly abandoned as too repressive...."

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100025849/control-freaks-want-web-licences-to-end-bloggers-anonymity-be-very-afraid/


 

[Kevin Wood]

Shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how the internet works to even propose it.

Oh, and I guess you'll be locked into using their Sh1te software too? 

Kevin

[Chris_H]

MS don't like anything they can't charge you for and it looks as if they missed the boat on the internet.  They are trying to make everyone pay them for letting their software work on their OS's and now they want to tax internet access.  Time they went belly-up.