[125201] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Fri Apr 9 19:34:44 2010
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:34:20 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 4/9/2010 16:22, joe mcguckin wrote:
> Let me see if I understand this correctly.
>
> People are defending the FCC?
After looking at who they elect, why does that surprise?
>
> The same FCC that ruled that any data service over 200Kbits was broadband, not "Information Service" and thus came under the purview of
> the FBI and CALEA - directly contravening the language and intent of the CALEA act?
>
> Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just your enemy.
The calculus is really simpler.
Somebody famous should have said (or maybe Ronald Reagan _did_ say:
"Government is not the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem."
--
Somebody should have said:
A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting
the vote.
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