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key issues and ways the government
how government to get out of technology in ways in which the mansion courage and
more innovation and technology for example what do you think that
network neutrality you have an opinion on that what you think is correct copyright and
patent live
give an opinion about other technology issues
yes I want the least amount of government net neutrality I think is regulation that
would lead to control a I don't support that
I want to protect the marketplace and the creativity and marketplace
I want things to be developed and I'm someone like yeah
%uh that cell phones have been developed and distributed can you imagine if we had turned
that over to fema
to have an organization twenty years ago is that
your job is to make sure everybody in this country including poor people have sell about
until we do that then the FCC's of regulate year when well probably more so than they
need to I think they should go out everyone's broadcasting dealt with the manufacture sale
for the navy and drive the price down and then make them available
just about everybody in this country
but I want a government out of it
you know whether it's energy or technology or what not
politicians and bureaucrats aren't smart enough to make those kind of decisions believe that
I know if you all
the market
got to make these decisions
so for example the current debate about the use of a
seven hundred stomach hurts spectrum
you know what role should to them it's a we're not going to regulate according to a letter
your honor I don't know that's very interesting questions that you could go back to the nineteen
twenties and radio frequencies
they should have all been sold the sugar property rights ending
so we have a new property rights in a new and different but the idea of
my singers is is very anti free markets and resume
%uh intimidate you
the license had been revoked in fairness doctrine is to be concerned about
in all these these other issues so
I'm a little more government has in essence its best its best function is disposing of
it and that is right and this is Al for and and make it available in the most equitable
fashion
and I I would agree some of those are
the only issue special because in every person I mean I don't understand
all this technology
but the principle
%uh the %uh the personal the marketplace would be defined it
in and privatize it
and and have the court's available to it to make sure these contracts
but gave no special benefits to monopolies winning the these licenses
you know the game and all the sound and and that's that's the promise of miscommunication
here
now your telephone communications
they come about
throughout
more power the story come in from the government
so well you can't have
you really can't have monopolies and cartels
we have some type of government protection
that was the railroads long time ago where with its communications and our utilities
the they do
the common operates that
true monopolies can occur in a free market usually almost
always occur
with government assistance and
if a company gets very very busy
they have ninety nine percent of the market
it is truly free
get a free entry to the marketplace
the only candidate because they're set aside the consumer and they drive prices down
and if prices go up to minors free entry somebody's going to come along and
and may catch
you know so
the we what we wanted on of the integrity of the marketplace and freedom because
that's where the creativity is is that
release the creative energy of individuals
you don't have much creative energy under socialism he didn't have it in the Soviet
union
and it's available in this country
we have a lot of freedom laughter I but a lot about underpinnings have been eroded you
know whether such civil liberties that
when it's a runaway more
the weather this intrusion of our privacy a
and the elimination of habeas corpus all these attacks
they haven't really heard it yet
%uh economically I think we're more vulnerable
because %uh we're %uh we're basing our economy on on borrowed money
if we get somebody even more authoritarian and our current President
they have way too many powers on the books now
they can
rule us from day one
that is one of things that on fighting to stop
next question
houston so that's a constitutional rights
and this is I understand the prosecution objected bill of rights much of this is undercut the
minority from the tyranny of the majority
what role do you think of them
she we played cards
protecting the minority
from the journey into germany's I think that it's always the greatest threat
and %uh it's a it's been threats it was been threatened by days since day one
and a
he in many ways you know I will at times carelessly use the word democracy but it's really not
a very good word
because democracy implies a tyranny of the majority so
%uh an unfortunate we're at that point now if you get fifty one percent of the vote to
transfer wealth
%uh it's the law of the land
and I'm really what we want to protect is the minority of the first amendment
%uh it doesn't up protect %uh
as speech it is no one controversial
it protects a speech to the one or two or three percent not only will lifestyles that
controversial religious years or political his
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so when I defend the second of the first amendment
by not curtailing some things that we might personally consider hardly I do it on principle
not because I'm course when three people who
but what we want to do is protect this out
%uh this %uh issue that you're you're talking about so that
the majority never
can take away the rights of the minority
are there any specific government functions that he believed are necessary to do so
in order to I've got to run the government to to protect the minority
I guess the minority I guess and that is to protect the individual the individual is the
true minority have been docked in a collective sense I think that's it
we go off on a tangent
when we think of ourselves as a only a collective right
and that means that
we have to add
we state the principle of the constitution
that is %uh
it's never there to restrain the people
the constitution is a restraining government
from doing anything against the individual
Bob packwood question just follow up on something earlier about technology
how would you insure that the US states competitive in and technological innovation and and you
can begin to answer their specific year was would you reduce funding for such organizations
as the national science foundation and the national institutes of health
I in a perfect world he asked that
of course you know the least one of the least offensive things and I mean we don't need
to do that we would be
%uh you know on the prosecution side somebody's going to
and to find those
and and the way you could notice it's an eighty one international
competitiveness you just get out of the way I mean make sure
your taxes I want to make sure that something he wants to start a business in kenya
make sure that that
they get to keep their money make sure that the regulations are of make sure they ought
to go through hoops
to start a new business
I'm a businessman
come to me the other day
he had been to China an indicted businessman over their know he was a journalist and that
none of this is that
he said we don't understand just what did you do that back in California
he says he would take me five years it took me three weeks to get his business started
in China
true at women in the way and we we
we push people overseas
that's also very much involved with the monetary system
because we have the reserve currency
and we get a better bargain by I never cease to be delivery courage exports
and that's a little bit more complicated by
it's a to the regulations that strangle taxation as monetary
we change the things we could be more competitive
the we don't become more competitive by subsidizing
certain industries we don't want to
as subsidize your competitor you know that's