And for those not in the know, Tauzin helped pass a bill in the House that
will repeal the articles in the Telecom Act of 96 that allows telecom
competition. Basically, it gives the Bells monopoly power if they offer
universal broadband service. Now that's a nice one.
Regards, Dustin
At 11:38 AM 3/4/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>For those who are not familiar with the SSSCA
>("Security Systems Standards and Certification Act"):
>
>"Draft Bill Would Require All Software and Digital
>Devices to Include Federally-Mandated Copy-Prevention
>Systems"
>http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010921_eff_sssca_alert.html
>
>And here is the actual text of the bill:
>http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm
>
>John Hebert
>
>
>--- Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 12:11, John Hebert wrote:
> >
> > > The FTC announcement is a better recipient of
> > generic
> > > spam complaints. If the FTC starts receiving
> > millions
> > > of spam reports daily, I think they were begin to
> > take
> > > it seriously and possibly help the congress dweebs
> > to
> > > understand the nature of the problem.
> >
> > I'm afraid that anything that is more complicated
> > than a TV remote is
> > over our congress critters heads. At least it seems
> > that way when we
> > have idiots like Fritz Hollings (a traitor to his
> > constituents and
> > America if you ask me) selling out the American
> > citizens and the entire
> > IT industry (not to mention researchers at
> > universities) to Hollywood.
> > The SSSCA bill will be the worst legislation I have
> > ever seen if it goes
> > through. Unfortunately Fritz is not up for
> > reelection until 2004.
> >
> > Shannon
> >
> >
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