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Re: LOL? said by gatorkram:Now that all the secret talks are over, lets tell everyone we are done being secretive, and will be public and open now.. Did anyone else read it like that? I read it like there was some disagreement in the direction the negotiations were going within the FCC itself and that an FCC insider kept leaking in order to derail the nearing agreement. And my bet goes to it being Commissioner Copps or 1 of his staffers. He is the 1 Commissioner within the FCC that has a hate on for big corporations and will do anything to turn the FCC in to some socialist do good agency.
»www.politico.com/news/stories/08···711.html
The secretive talks also excluded the other FCC commissioners and left some in the tech community feeling as if major companies were defining the future of the Internet without their input.
The collapse of industry talks also could put the agency on a collision course with Congress. More than half of the House and a considerable number of senators have urged Genachowski to stand down on the “third way,” and still others have implored him to halt action until they return from recess.
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| If you knew what you were talking about you'd know that only Genachowski's staff were at these meetings, and that Copps' office has been very upset about not having any role at all in it. He couldn't leak anything, because he had to read about it in the press.
These meetings broke down because AT&T and Verizon don't want any rules on wireless, and the FCC has already stated that isn't acceptable. The public backlash to the Google Verizon deal that excludes wireless showed the FCC there was no fruit left to pick. |
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Yes, clearly this entire, complicated system of dysfunction and everything that has happened is all the fault of the one FCC staffer you don't like for partisan reasons. |
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said by Farmer Ted :
If you knew what you were talking about you'd know that only Genachowski's staff were at these meetings, and that Copps' office has been very upset about not having any role at all in it. He couldn't leak anything, because he had to read about it in the press.
Just because Copps and his assistants weren't in the meetings doesn't mean he did not know what was taking place and the general info from the meetings. And what was leaked were that deals were being cut; not the details of the deals. Copps could easily have leaked that.
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said by Karl Bode:Yes, clearly this entire, complicated system of dysfunction and everything that has happened is all the fault of the one FCC staffer you don't like for partisan reasons. Agreed. Also maybe the FCC should be the socialist do-good agency. I mean, obviously the pure vaunted capitalistic ideals aren't happening. There isn't true competition when the major carriers almost do everything together lock step...of course I'm mainly referring to wireless with that particular statement. With broadband...you got cable and "MAYBE" good DSL. That leaves a lot of people with only one decent broadband provider and even then....the prices show the lack of competition. While I'm for "free market" in theory....in practice...its not working. There isn't enough true competition to keep greed in check. Greed is out of control allowing the kind of behaviors we are seeing.
I do realize that for capitalism and free market to work properly, greed is needed. However, it needs to be kept in check to keep from corporations from running amok along with our so called govt. All that is happening is the consumers are being screwed every which way from Sunday and the corporations and politicians are sitting pretty. Its total BS. |
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said by Karl Bode:Yes, clearly this entire, complicated system of dysfunction and everything that has happened is all the fault of the one FCC staffer you don't like for partisan reasons. Truer words have never been spoken. |
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Do you have proof, or are you just bullshitting again? |
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