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FCC To Hold First VoIP Hearings; Rules in 2004
securitas writes "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold its first hearings on Internet telephony and VoIP regulation on Dec. 1 and plans to regulate VoIP by late 2004. A public comment period will follow the Dec. 1 meeting. Some say that it is overly ambitious to regulate VoIP by 2004, especially since FCC Commissioner Michael Powell does not have a strong reputation for clarifying complex issues - instead he has a reputation for confounding them. More at Internet.com and InternetWeek . FCC press release (PDF1|DOC1) and attached letter (PDF2|DOC2) to VoIP proponent Senator Ron Wyden, who sits on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee."
The FCC has NO AUTHORITY at all. ALL of the exercises of authority that they do are illegal as their existance violates the constitution.
The idea that the FCC doesn't want to regulate VOIP is ABSURD.
They will require backdoors and keys to encrypted VOIP communications to "protect us from terrorists".
By the way-- any rule that the FCC creates is ILLEGAL. The Congress cannot delegate its powers to the FCC, and thus their regulations (Along with their very existance) are unconstitutional.
The FCC is just as evil and anti-american as the IRS, the DEA, the FDA, and most every three letter agency in the government.
Their only purpose is control. They exercise censorship over all the media they can get their hands on, and prevent free communication in direct violation of the First ammednment.
Swear words and nudity on TV are prevented by the FCC, yet the first ammendment says they have NO RIGHT to do so.
Every employee and collaborator with the FCC is a criminal who belongs in jail.
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23
A Libertartian agress with libertarians-- the FCC needs to be dissolved, along with dozens of other illegal agencies.
As to private corporate interests being responsible for the crap on TV, that's absurd. IF there was a free market, TV competition would be more about quality in art, not about getting what attention you can with the FCC mandated victorian programming that is allowed.
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23
Only racists invoke godwins law. (Seriously. The law is based on the assumption that the holocaust was a non-existant, non-historical event, and thus is not relevant in any discussion.)
Invoking godwins law is proof positive you're a racist... though I figure most people who do so don't realize they are racists.
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23