Joe wrote:
>
> At 10:28 PM 1/8/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...two words...'topic' is one. 'off' is the other.
> >
> >=-)
> >
> >Anthony Clifton - Wirehead
>
> One more word ---- HOAX! Since when did the FCC start regulating the
> telephone industry? Phone rates are set by the individual state public
> service commisions not by the FCC.
Sorry to say, it _does_ affect us (though yes, it's off-topic, but most
of us communicate through Internet links). The FedGov has a couple of
taxes on local phone bills for many years. And unless you've forgotten
the CDA, they want control over the Net, with special tools to decode
any messages someone wants private. Classic computers will not work
with those standards, of course. Yes, even if you aren't libertarian.
(I know damned well that there are one or two socialists on this list),
we can be affected -- we can be forbidden to communicate. And there
are at _least_ two attempts in progress to "reword" the CDA so that it
takes away just as much freedom but doesn't hit the federal judicial
hot buttons.
Seems outrageous? The First Amendment covers everything. Presently.
transmitting Nobel's (the guy who funded the Prize) formula for
explosives is being watched by our "masters". Some of us collect
computers that may have been in government hands before the general
policy of "rip out the hard disk and hit it with the chainsaw" came
into effect. Other hobbies have been crippled by the government --
remember guns (my next love after computers as computers are my next
love after science fiction)? Oh, it's platonic.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Received on Fri Jan 09 1998 - 21:35:20 GMT