FCC Claims Regulatory Power Over Home Computers

Pointing to Assistant Professor of Law Susan Crawford's blog, iman1003 writes "The FCC has filed a brief where it claims regulatory power over all instrumentalities, facilities, and apparatus 'associated with the overall circuit of messages sent and received' via all interstate radio and wire communication according to a blog published by Susan Crawford. The blog can be found here and the brief here (in PDF format). Kind of scary if you ask me." Ars Technica has good commentary on this, also referencing Crawford's findings.

They'll take my mouse

[spidergoat2]

When they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!

Dear FCC

[JustAnOtherCodeSerf]

Dear FCC... PISS OFF!

Bush Junta sez:

[markbark]

All Your Computers Are Belong To Us

The Cure for 1984 is 1776

Eric Idle has a few comments

[Jrod5000 at RPI]

Fuck you very much the FCC, Fuck you very much for fining me, Five thousand bucks a fuck, So I'm really out of luck, That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me. So fuck you very much the FCC, For proving that free speech just isn't free. Clear channel's a dear channel, So Howard Stern must go. Attorney General Ashcroft doesn't like strong words and so, He's charging twice as much as all the drugs for Rush Limbaugh, So fuck you all so very much. So fuck you very much dear Mr Bush, For heroically sitting on your toosh. For Halliburton, Enron, all the companies who pale, Let's send them a clear signal and stick Martha straight in jail. She's an uppity rich bitch, And at least she isn't male, So fuck you all so very much. So fuck you Mr Dickhead Cheney too, Fuck you and fuck everything you do, Your pacemaker must be a fake, you haven't got a heart, As far as I'm concerned you're just a pasty faced old fart. And as for Condoleeza, she's an intellectual tart, So fuck you all so very much. So fuck you very much the EPA, For giving all Alaska's oil away, It really is a bummer, When I can't fill my hummer, The ozone's a no-go zone now that Arnold's here to say, "The Nuclear winter games are going to take place in LA," So fuck you all so very much. So what the planet fails, Let's save the great white males! And fuck you all so very much

Since when did the the tenth ammendment read...

[Anonymous Coward]

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the FCC??!

Help!

[RehabDJ]

Save us Howard Stern!

This just means

[Anonymous Coward]

I won't be buying my PC from the US.

FCC .vs. Orthodontists

[Anonymous Coward]

So, if someone starts receiving radio broadcasts on their braces, is the FCC going to start regulating orthodontia?

Re: WHAT IDIOT MODDED HIM DOWN?

[GreyWolf3000]

Mod me down instead. I'll make an even more pro-Bush statement (which I of course don't actually believe), so that this post sucks up most of the slashthink reactionary down-moderation.

I think Bush is a great leader and visionary. He belongs in the White House, and the same can't be said of his opponent. I believe he approves of this message.

whether or not he's actually got anything to do with it.

Or, if you want to sound like an exceptionally smart slashbot, you blame it on Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.

Re:So that's where Palladium is going to come from

[drinkypoo]

You left out the birth of skynet.

I'll take care of this.

[jthayden]

I hereby declare, that I have regulatory powers over the FCC.

Objections?

I didn't hear any, so it must be ok. FCC it's time for a timeout. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.

Or maybe I should go my dad's route? FCC, bring me my belt.