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Re: ] FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:48:28 -0700
________________________________________ From: Rich Kulawiec [rsk () gsp org] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:28 AM To: David Farber Cc: Sunil Garg Subject: Re: [IP] FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:34:03AM -0700, David Farber wrote:
David Weinberger writes, "The FCC is suggesting that it will make a slice of spectrum available for free Internet access to users, so long as the providers filter out all the porn...and, if the filters don't work, then the providers have to use 'other means,' which presumably might include blocking entire application types or protocols, or blocking encrypted data. It includes filtering p2p traffic. The idea is now open for public comment. One of the prominent supporters of this idea, M2Z, which is bidding for it, bills itself as a 'free family friendly broadband' company. "
M2Z is a company run by former FCC insiders and backed by religious fascists (e.g., Focus on the Family): one of the founders (according to Infoworld) is former FCC wireless head Juln Muleta. They're also promising something -- porn filtering -- which everyone knows can't be done...well, everyone except the companies which continue to falsely claim it can be because doing so lines their pockets with profits far more obscene than any porn found on the Internet. Nor should it be done: in a week in which we lost George Carlin, his masterpiece "Seven Words You Can't Say On Television" should be a mandatory part of the contemporary American cultural curriculum in every high school in the country. ---Rsk ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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