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California PUC Calls For A Public Hearing On VoIP

Posted by timothy on from the statist-busybodies-like-to-be-popular-too dept.

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.

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  4. Grandparent link is not porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Checking the dictionary...

    por-nog-ra-phy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (por-ngr-f)
    n.
    1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.

    2. The presentation or production of this material.

    The above links are not porn. I mean, you may be sexually aroused by those pictures, but I'm not. And I don't think sexual arousal is their purpose.