[109388] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Re: Long Distance FUD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (scoops)
Mon Mar 22 14:40:20 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:21:53 -0800
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
From: scoops <scoops@quiknet.com>
In-Reply-To: <36F67B9E.DAB8530B@sparta.mainstream.net>
Reply-To: scoops <scoops@quiknet.com>
Pure FUD? Internet too big and slippery to be regulated? How about the
business license an ISP has to take out? How about a question from the
phone company, are you an ISP, an affirmative answer to which affects your
rate under subsection zed of newly enacted special legislation? How about
a special monthly federal or state or local tax on ISPs? How about special
PUC regulations making non-metered service to ISPs allowable? Or new PUC
regs that make a call to an ISP by definition a metered call? How about
any number of taxes, charges, or regulations on ISPs that make them more
expensive to operate? How about them passing that "cost of doing business"
on to you, their cusomers? Thus, even if the customer is not directly
charged more by the local phone company, I can see a thousand ways that the
customer can be made to "pay" for the privilege of using the internet.
At 05:19 PM 3/22/99 +0000, Michael Hohensee wrote:
>It sounds like pure FUD. There's no way that I know of that they can
>locate the two machiens involved in an email exchange. It's all rather
>moot, in any case. The internet is by definition a large collection of
>"local" interconnections. The only way they could attempt to charge you
>by distance would be if they shut down the internet, and that's not
>going to happen.
>
>tleininger@moraine.tec.wi.us wrote:
>>
>> Off topic but has nothing to do with Starr or hidden PC mics.
>> This one's making the e-mail rounds here - sounds implausible (if not
>> ridiculous).
>> Comments welcomed...
>>
>> >Please write your representatives
>> > CNN reported that in the next two weeks, Congress is going to vote on
>> > allowing telephone companies to charge for Internet access. That
means, every
>> > time we make a long distance e-mail we will receive a long distance
charge.
>> > This will get costly. Please visit to the following web site AND
>> > complain. Complain to your Congressman. Don't allow this to pass! The
>> following
>> > address will allow you to send an e-mail on this subject directly to
your
>> > Congressman. Let your listeners know about the situation, too!
>> > http://www.house.gov/writerep
>> > Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! I hope all of you will pass
>> > this on to all your friends and family. All of us have an interest in
>> thisone.
>
