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

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Drew Lentz [drew@drewlentz.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:48 AM
To: David Farber
Cc: ip
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   ] FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet

In a day and age where we are getting trampled in the internet access
game, this little excuse for playing catch-up is a slap in the face.
We are a country that promotes the fact that we have freedoms that no
one else does, however our FCC wants to keep an eye on what we choose
to view. We all know content filtering won't work, but its the fact
that the FCC is trying to extend its hand onto my desktop that I have
an issue with.

M2Z tried and failed multiple times to get this done. Why now? What
changed to make this a priority now, when the FCC wasn't having it
before?

-dl

On Jun 25, 2008, at 7:48 AM, David Farber wrote:

>
> ________________________________________
> 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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