Rick Boucher To Chair House Internet Committee 55
Misch writes "Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) will be taking the chair of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Rep. Boucher has been an advocate for consumers rights, is a co-founder of the Congressional Internet Caucus, and has participated in a Slashdot Interview. He was instrumental in defeating key escrow, back in the day."
Re:Hopefully (Score:5, Insightful)
The entrenched cable and telco companies wouldn't argue in favor of reducing regulatory barriers. On the contrary, they willingly accept such minor restrictions as they can't work around in exchange for effective protection from competition. An invasive regulatory environment best serves the incumbent providers.
Re:This is all fine and good, but its not the righ (Score:4, Insightful)
Legislation related to the copyright into the committees of the judiciary and courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
I read this sentence a number of times, and I tried really hard to parse it. First, it has no verb at all. I tried concatenating it to the title of your post, and it still has no verb.
How did this get +4 Interesting? "Occasionally copies of bill go"? Your first sentence does not parse. The second sentence says, "Occassionally bills go to the committee, but approved bills go back to the committee for another pass". Again, this is not a logical statement. You're also talking about commerce and energy committee, where this story is about the Internet committee.
Third paragraph is talking about him leaving, and him being still there. The article is about him gaining a chairmanship of a commitee.
So, first sentence makes no sense. Second sentence also makes no sense and is off topic. Third sentence makes no sense.
In conclusion, please posts on the slashdot.org webpage and onto the internet, the universe, and the grand unification.
Re:Good for Internet and Environment (Score:3, Insightful)
I live in his district and still don't have high speed access at home, but I guess he is trying. Yeah if he went against coal here he would loose that battle and the next election.
Tell me about it. (Score:5, Insightful)
Over here, they created telco regulations at the turn of the century, at a time the incumbent providers were already very few and very entrenched.
It was horrible.
The regulations got used. When the entrenched telcos tried to stifle the growth of up-and-coming providers with underhanded tactics, they got punished -- I kid you not! The mind boggles. Those guys were only trying to keep making money!
So now we got up to 20Mbps (in the countryside, don't know about cities) with no cap, with such things as custom reverse DNS and IPv6 as free options, installation on Linux officially supported, TV-over-DSL with hundreds of channels, and, oh, free phone to half the planet, too, all for a fixed monthly rate of about $22. The horror! The former entrenched telcos weeped a lot as they lost the marketshare they were rightfully entitled to.
Some silly liberals are probably going to bring forth some silly theory about the point of regulation being to prevent attempts by private interests to stifle competition, but that's a silly notion, of course. And probably a little subversive.
Re:Tell me about it. (Score:4, Insightful)
Indeed!
I hope the FIRST thing he does is start working on eliminating all these local-municipality "time warner/cox cable/comcrap/etc paid the city council a bag of money and sent them some whores in exchange for a local monopoly right" practices, and require equal-infrastructure access so that 'net service works the same way that power and phone service now do.
Re:Hopefully (Score:2, Insightful)
Yea, regulation always fails. (Score:3, Insightful)
It's a good thing regulations protected the people who got screwed by Enr... oh wait.
It's a good thing regulations protected the town that the movie Erin Brockovicth was based on.. oh, wait.
You, sir, got lucky, and think that because things went a certain way for you, they go that way for everyone. They don't. The world is a larger sample set than the town you lived in.