Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

Fri Feb 27 19:58:06 UTC 2015

On 2/27/2015 1:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> You really should read 47CFR§8.  It won't take you more than an hour 
> or so, as it's only about 8 pages. 

The bigger picture is (a) HOW they got this authority--self-defining it 
in, and (b) the potential abuse and 4th amendment violations, not just 
today's "foot in the door" details!

Today's altruistic intentions... is a DIFFERENT ISSUE (though still 
important.. and I find much of their wording very open-ended... lots of 
"reasonables" in there.. and lots of possible protections or legal 
things that are EXTREMELY abusive... yet still universally considered 
legal!)

To use an extreme example, if a democratically elected chief executive 
of a republic self-appointed himself a dictator-for-life, and stated 
that he would use those powers to imprison those who engage in human 
trafficking... would you really cheerleader him for fighting human 
trafficking and call his new authority a good thing?

In the same way, I don't like the BASIS for this authority... and what 
it potentially means in the long term... besides what they state that 
they intend to do with this new authority they've appointed themselves 
in the short term.

-- 
Rob McEwen
+1 478-475-9032