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California PUC Calls For A Public Hearing On VoIP
Vick points to this story at Voxilla.com, which says that "A California Public Utilities Commissioner has called for public hearings on the agency's recent demand that Voice over IP service providers apply and be certified as full-fledged telephone companies." The anti-regulation arguments, though, mostly seem to hinge on timing and protocol -- I wish more objectors would argue that there are already too many phone regulations, instead of seeming to promise a boatload more captured users (dollars) if we just let VoIP develop for a few years before unchaining the regulators.
I think your first point is off in tinfoil-hat-land, but I agree with your second point. I saw so many inititives and measures pushed thru behind closed doors in seattle after only a token guesture at discussion that these days I don't even bother voting any more.
It's not like they aren't going to do what the hell they want anyways.