On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Conor Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the DOT regulated what you were allowed to listen to on your car stereo > when you were traveling on Federal highways, people would be up in arms. > Why does the moralizers @ the FCC think it can do the equivalent (regulate > the content that travels over public bandwidth). What's more is, if it were > actually in the public's interest to do such things, then it'd be up to > Congress, not some bureaucrats, to make that call.
The FCC has already shown that it is in the moralizing biz as well the spectrum regulation it was set up to do. There are things you can not do or say over parts of the public airwaves, this is a long and litigious fact.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM Various entities have called for the same sort of things to be enacted upon the intertubes many times and for many reasons (its for the kids etc etc). and so it goes. -tomhiggins --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
