COPEing With Digital Discrimination
Washington, DC., April 17, 2006. The Inernet has apparently hit the big-time. The days of a free, unregulated Internet are at risk of becoming a relic of the past as we (unknowingly) surfed into treacherous waters of bit discrimination; so much so that the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet is considering introducing drafted legislation in a bill likely to be titled, the "Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006," or COPE in the current session. If enacted, the proposed legislation establishes, among other things, the assurance of net neutrality.
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New FEC Rules Exempt Blogs From Regulation
Washington, DC, April 5, 2006. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) announced this month that political blogs will remain (relatively) free from regulation. The FEC voted unanimously to exempt Internet sites, and blog sites in particular, from regulation citing Congress's "conscious, informed judgment" (their words, not ours) that "the Internet should not be subject to the many restrictions that McCain-Feingold (the act that regulates political campaign activity) applies to other types of mass communications."
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VoIP: To Tax or Not to Tax?
Washington, DC, February 17, 2006. To say the telecom industry is undergoing significant change may just be the understatement of the year. But perhaps the underlying facts in support of this not-so-profound observation make for interesting discussion. The recent AT&T-SBC merger, coupled with the prior RBOC mergers over the past ten years bring to mind the well-worn cliché "déjà vu all over again."
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