[IP] Re: ] FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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



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