Bush's FCC Shuts Down Internet Access

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Steven McCabe " <stevo_am

Sat, 6 Aug 2005 00:23:46 -0700 (PDT)

Bush's FCC Shuts Down Internet Access

 

 

President Bush's FCC Shuts Down Internet Access

 

Jaimie Court

 

 

If your high speed Internet provider is not your phone company, you

may be unplugged very soon.

 

On Friday the Federal Communications Commission reversed course and

deregulated high speed Internet service. The FCC gave telephone

companies the right to stop other Internet service providers, like

Earthlink, from using their lines.

 

For years the baby bells raged against " forced access " AKA consumer

choice. Until today the FCC balked. It's a brilliant political

strategy on Bush's part. Just as Rove and the White House are outed on

their lies, why not wipe out Internet access for tens of millions of

curious Americans? The Evening News will tell them eveything they need

to know.

 

The FCC's reasoning is that DSL is an information service not a

telecommunication service subject to regulation. Tell that to millions

of Americans who could be booted off line if they don't want to pay

their telephone company's price.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/featuredposts.html#a005206