[opendtv] Re: How the FCC actually defines "telecom"
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:03:43 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
But one article made a very good point about how the FCC could
use its "telecommunications" authority to regulate services like
Facebook, Skype and others.
That's predictable nonsense from lunatic paranoids, Craig.
No Bert it is fact.
Congress made VOIP service delivered over cable broadband a Title II
service in 1996.
Which is totally logical. If a telco, offering voice telephone service, has to
be encumbered with taxes to support whatever "lifeline" or other services
deemed essential, it would be egregiously unfair for VoIP users to get off
scott free. You would have to take that up with Congress, if you don't like it.
Abolish lifeline service, for instance. And of course, this is taxation of the
line. Not separately of users. What you say on the phone isn't being censored,
Craig, as the lunatics like to pretend.
If the Open Internet Order under Title II stands, you can bet your last
dollar that the FCC will try to regulate these "Internet" services and
make them pay too.
Sorry, but that's another false premise. With telephone service, the line was
taxed, not the individual users. Facebook is a user of the "advanced telecom
service." It's not *the* advanced telecom service. If they are taxed, it would
be as any business is taxed, having nothing to do with Title II. You're just
being a drama queen.
When innovation is thwarted in favor of protecting the special interests
And this. Standard lunatic fringe paranoid formula-spouting. It makes no sense.
It's PRECISELY the opposite. When packet switching electronics had been
invented and made practical, the Internet happened. It was thanks to REGULATED
telephone lines, of these telecom companies, that made the Internet
economically feasible. Otherwise, any Internet infrastructure would have had to
be laid out from scratch. That's not how it happened.
Imagine, for example, how the Internet would have evolved, had we only had
(monopolistic, walled in, not even slightly neutral) cable TV systems to build
the Internet on, and no Title II telephone lines. It never would have gotten
off the ground. Your scare mongering is nonsense.
Bert
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