calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
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Re: Huh?
Yeah, but let's keep in mind that the destruction of the Telecom Act of '96 started with Clinton forcing Reed Hundt out of the FCC chair and replacing him with Kennard, who quickly put the brakes on pro-competitive enforcement and unbundling activities.
(This comment is not meant to start another UNE vs. non-UNE debate, but to point out that if you agree with Lessig here, as I do, that it wasn't Bush who turned us off the proper course. He just reinforced Clinton's push in the wrong direction.)
If you don't believe me, you should review Reed Hundt's book, You Say You Want a Revolution : A Story of Information Age Politics.
calvoiper
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tapeloop
1959. I try to kick the ball. I miss.
Premium
join:2004-06-27
Airstrip One
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Congrats ronpin! You just got bashed from both the left and right sides of the political spectrum! Welcome to BBR! 
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana
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Wrong -- oh so very wrong...(did you even read what I said?) |
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rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY | reply to ronpin
ha ha ha a reference to Clinton.... typical Republican who can't take responsibility for this administrations failures. thanks for the laugh this morning. |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to R4M0N
said by R4M0N  :Everything Goes back to Bush, doesn't it? no, he's just one in a long line of presidents that didn't really give a sh1t about the internet, because he doesn't use and doesn't really understand what it is.
I must say however, if he thinks he can just promise that everyone will have broadband by 2007, he better demand that something different be done than is going on now.
My guess is that the U.S. is even worse off than it seems, because the FCC defines broadband as "at least 200kbits/sec, both ways". By any stretch of the imagination, this is a ludacrous definition of broadband in the year 2006. |
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana
 ·AT&T Southwest
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Actually it was the Clinton Admin (with a Republican Congress) that passed the Telecom Act of 1996. The only good thing I can say about the Bush Admin is that the Telecom Act was essentially dismantled during his tenure. I do fear the next Telecom Act will reflect the Republican incest with big business -- the opposite extreme of the 1996 act.
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R4M0N
Brazilian Soccer Ownz Joo
join:2000-10-04
Glen Allen, VA | reply to ronpin
Everything Goes back to Bush, doesn't it? |
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