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Senators urge FCC to preserve neutrality protections for text messages
The FCC is considering classifying texts as an information service in order to give carriers more tools to fight automated messages and spam texts. However, the Senators don't see the need. The Telecom Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) already requires senders to get permission from a receiver before sending an automated text. Additionally, there is concern that carriers might block legitimate bulk messages. Verizon did so in 2007 when it stopped women's rights advocacy group Naral Pro-Choice America from sending a mass text to its members because the content was considered controversial.
Here is the original letter (pdf).
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Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped.
-- Groucho Marx's last words
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday December 11 2018, @05:15AM (4 children)
It's a bit weird that you can propose someone who has no intention to run
It's really better that way. We shouldn't vote for people that want the job. We should conscript the ones that don't, make it like jury duty, then they go *back to the farm* after they serve their time.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 11 2018, @06:44AM (3 children)
That's forced labor in disguise under the name of "conscription".
Paid forced labor, but forced anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday December 11 2018, @07:09AM (2 children)
:-) We could make it a condition of parole. Otherwise let's just call it "community service". If we are going to have "forced labor", could it be in a better place? We need qualified people. At the very least we need to hang a real Sword of Damocles over their heads.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 11 2018, @07:21AM (1 child)
Politicians life: one term in office, one term in jail.
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TMB - 2018
Gotta love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Tuesday December 11 2018, @04:19PM
Start with jail. It's the perfect environment. Everybody's a lawyer, and they have a good law library. Once a guy can talk his way past the parole board, you can assume he knows the *art of the deal* and is well qualified to serve the rest of his time in congress. Then people can vote to put him back in jail if he fucks up.
Come to think of it, I kinda like that idea.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..