There's no way that this should be a censored source of access. That's patently unconstitutional. Not that that simple fact ever bothered the blue-noses in charge of things.

How soon till they start griping about Phorm or whoever stealing their ads that support this away from them and have to shut the whole thing down?

/Paris because well. . .even she could see THAT one coming

Everything else is fraud. Take your spectrum back from broadcasters.

http://www.reed.com/OpenSpectrum/

... they only screw things up.

If an individual city wants to cough up the cash for free wireless broadband, then they can do that. This is starting to look like a creepy attempt to regulate net access in the states, and might turn into that "Great Australian Firewall" that Howard is so keen on pushing.

This isn't to say that the model for auctioning off bandwidth isn't flawed, but as silly as it might sound, I trust T-Mobile more than the FCC.

Actually, the government does have the authority. See, these transmissions are going to be public and over-the-air. These therefore count as broadcasts and therefore can fall under the auspices of the Federal Communications Commission, who we *know* has authority to regulate broadcast media such as the major networks and radio stations.

Would that be the Great Carrier Reef?

...as the title made me hope at least one Carrier Battle Group had decided to express some rightful outrage against the federal bureaucracy and was currently laying waste to a few D.C. buildings with the pinpoint accuracy of Cruise Missiles, JDAMs and F/A-18 delivered force packages.

Damn.

That was what I hoped too...

The "family friendly" filter for blacklisting porn sites. That also blacklists other "illegal materials" as well.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/17/australia_cyber_safety_no_opt_out/

You mean the one the Kevin 747 want to implement ?

Icon as helicopter is closest to plane that dear leader so loves