FCC Claims Regulatory Power Over Home Computers

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 16, 2004 @12:50AM from the when-power-hungry-bureaucrats-attack dept.

Pointing to Assistant Professor of Law Susan Crawford's blog, iman1003 writes "The FCC has filed a brief where it claims regulatory power over all instrumentalities, facilities, and apparatus 'associated with the overall circuit of messages sent and received' via all interstate radio and wire communication according to a blog published by Susan Crawford. The blog can be found here and the brief here (in PDF format). Kind of scary if you ask me." Ars Technica has good commentary on this, also referencing Crawford's findings.

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OK, let's do it your way by A+nonymous+Coward · 2004-11-16 02:27 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Let's blame Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan, Carter ...

Oh wait, what's that, you say those guys aren't in power any more and some are actually dead?!?

Well shucks ... I guess we'll just have to settle for the chump in chief then, won't we?

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Re:Their entire argument is fallacious at best by Oblio · 2004-11-16 04:25 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Both parties have a long history of growing the beast, but one party lies about it.

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