From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 11:30:19 +0800
To: liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray)
Subject: Re: NYT's _Unmuzzling the Internet_
In-Reply-To: <199601040312.WAA22282@osceola.gate.net>
Message-ID: <199601040317.VAA16388@dal1820.computek.net>
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> The FCC is now proposing a tax on ISP's -- in the name of "universal access"
> !?? :O(.
> 
> They claim that since voice can be transmitted over the Internet, it falls
> under the jurisdiction of the FCC.

This is pretty stupid - I mean, even I know that it's all just data.  
Besides, it's irrelevent - if the FCC had jurisdiction over the net 
because it can carry digitized voice, then they could regulate what I 
scream out my back door.  Last time I looked, I didn't need a license to 
broadcast my voice out over the airwaves with my mouth...
- --
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"Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families,
through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a
waiting soul.  Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and
asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'"

                    -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes

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