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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... - -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMOtGryS9AwzY9LDxAQFR9AP/YI62YWJSwikRgLVibKK0VlQ0iL70nz8J YR5njK2y9r9nN0TZ6B8W+PYxbT3nbhioSHrg1z29U1jOwTaYenwsytTGfRF2S7fe 3j8eZNF0bEnIdZP/7WE11t/t5rXBqdGW8CvvcTDvjBxIgXtsXZtR5bBdnjcObeEF JFEjkW3afKA= =Tckk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----