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FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet Access

Posted by timothy on from the so-really-we-don't-need-much-bandwidth dept.

Aidtopia writes "FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is proposing auctioning off an unused part of the 25 MHz spectrum on the condition that the winner provide free wireless Internet access. The proposal sets coverage targets that ramp up to 95% of the population within 10 years. The catch: the provider must filter out obscene content." I wonder what definition of "obscene" the FCC would like to use.

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  1. No, no, no internet as a public service by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The FCC will treat it like TV/Radio, and make sure that nothing can exist but the same type of pasteurized commercial crap which passes for television.

    Why don't they filter "obscene" content from the telephone system? How is the concept of the internet as a two way medium for communications to grasp?

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