We need to have some means or some standards for assuring people that their privacy can be protected. So, instead of industry lobbying government, in a way government will be lobbying industry and saying these are problems that need to be addressed from a public point of view, but leaving it for industry to try to develop the self-regulatory regimes, in codes of conduct and so on, that will solve the problems. And it also means that in general government control will not be the sign of this new digital age. It will be more a sign of consumer choice and competition. Because even if government control were desirable, which I do not think it is, but even if it were desirable, it is not possible with the Internet.
Many people try, yes.
So in our view, the first principle is that the private sector must lead. And either the governments ran the telecommunications system or the broadcast system or, as in the United States, we set up regulatory agencies that very heavily regulated those industries. And the reasons, at least in the United States, that we took that approach was with broadcast we had a very limited spectrum to allocate and therefore it was necessary to have some government allocation of that spectrum and therefore some government regulation of this oligopoly that was assigned. In the case of telecommunications, the building of the infrastructure was very expensive relative to the size of any companies that existed, and so we licensed monopolies to build the infrastructure and run the telephone system. But because they were monopolies, it became necessary to regulate them.