Hm, maybe the radio stations will stop needing to bleep things out. :) > Telecommunications firms also argue that a lack of legislation has not stifled competi

Hm, maybe the radio stations will stop needing to bleep things out. :) > Telecommunications firms also argue that a lack of legislation has not stifled competition among Internet companies. Yeah, it's the granted monopolies and anti-competitive behavior that did that. > "The F.C.C.’s legal authority should be decided by the Congress itself, and not by applying to the Internet a set of onerous rules designed for a different technology, a different situation, and a different era," he [James Cicconi, a senior executive vice president at AT&T] said. Um, I'm pretty sure those rules were designed for there being a (local) monopoly on what we're calling the "last mile" these days, rather than for any specific technology used. They make just as much sense as ever.