http://www.samizdata.net/2006/05/showtime-at-the/ A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.samizdata.net/2006/05/showtime-at-the/#comment-115212 bach Thu, 25 May 2006 07:31:27 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=8947#comment-115212 I think the idea for this scheme is aimed more at de facto censorship and revisionist history than making money. In the past, several other quasi-governemnt organizations tried similar moves, and got shot down.

]]> http://www.samizdata.net/2006/05/showtime-at-the/#comment-115211 Susan Hogarth Wed, 17 May 2006 21:14:01 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=8947#comment-115211 Privatization ought to have a bad name – it is in most case, like most political concept-words, the exact opposite of the thing the word usually represents (witness ‘patriot act’ and ‘welfare’ and ‘free trade agreements’, and ‘deregulation’ and on and on and on…). The whole ‘pritivization’ scam int he US at least is exactly that – a scam intended to hoodwink the casual observer of politics (in other words, the voters). Unfortunately, too many thinktanks in the US fall for this sort of shell game, accepting the name as a substitute for the reality. All it teaches is that ‘pritivization’ means less freedom (because of course it has nothing to do with private property), and ‘deregulation’ means higher prices (because of course it’s just re-regulation). I wish to heaven that politically savy people would catch on and reject these government shufflings outright.

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