Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free, fun quote from the letter…

When young, I remember clearly how my father told me why our country was so great, mainly based on the constitution and Bill of Rights. Over my lifetime, I’ve seen those rights disregarded at every step. Loopholes abound. It’s sad. For example, my (Eisenhower Republican) father explained the sanctity of your home and how it could not easily be entered. It was your own private abode. And you had a right to listen to any radio signals that came because the air was free and if it came into your home you had a right to listen to it. That principle went away with a ban on radios that could tune in cell phone frequencies in the days of analog cell phones. Nobody but myself seemed to treat this as a core principle that was too much to give up.

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Filed under: random — by adafruit, posted December 21, 2010 at 5:07 pm


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