| Screwed Again After being lobbied by telecom carriers, the Commerce Department this week announced they'd be drastically reducing the volume of data ISPs have to provide Uncle Sam. ISPs will no longer have to provide government with data on connection speed, actual price paid per user, technology type or address-specific data. Instead, carriers now only have to hand over vague, market-area data that's not particularly useful in forming policy. If this is truly what happens then we are screwed and right back at where we started. This "data" would be no better than the zip code data we currently have.
The one thing that seems to be obvious in here and in most areas of law/policy making is that LOBBYING SHOULD BE ILLEGAL. The corporations, who don't vote, have vastly more influence than the people the government is supposed to represent. This is wrong on so many levels! |
