EFF on why they did it.
L. Todd Masco
cactus at bb.com
Thu Aug 18 17:34:28 PDT 1994
In article <9408182314.AA22475 at anchor.ho.att.com>,
bill.stewart at pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204 <wcs at anchor.ho.att.com> wrote:
>David Lesher writes:
>> No money, not wiretaps. That may {or may not} limit the effect of FBI
>> Wiretap, depending on how [much/little] the Hill loosens the
>> pursestrings.
>
>It's certainly a good start, but the government *does* have other money.
Indeed. I'd really like to see the wording about how they actually need
to be paid for: namely, will allowing tariffs to be raised by RBOCs
count as "paying for it"?
They could spend the money by doing two things:
- Mandating the money be spent (the DT bill)
- and then allowing the RBOCs to increase their tariffs.
Presto! We've paid for the mechanisms, but not through the federal
budgets. The RBOCs have been pushing for high bandwidth R&D increases
of their general tariffs for a really long time, so I could certainly
see them playing along as long as there's room for other R&D in there.
Just a thought...
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