Not only true in DC, but to the general public as well, Larry.
Excuse the language... but it seems appropriate...
Sh*t flows downhill ---> Washington --> Media --> Public
- Larry
Larry Yunker wrote:
I doubt quite seriously that any heads of executive branch departments
realize that broadband/internet services are sometimes/often? provided
by companies with a staff of less than ten and gross revenues less
than $1MM annually. Most Washington beaurocratics live in a box and
believe the line of bull that the Bell's and the Cable-Ops feed them.
That is to say that the likes of Ma-Bell or Comcast created the
internet and there aren't very many of the rouge ISPs around anymore.
They might as well just treat the industry like there are 10 players:
Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, AT&T, Bell South, Qwest, Sprint, MSN,
Earthlink, and AOL. The rest of us are a bunch of renegades providing
internet using tin-cans and string or pringles-cans and duct-tape.
Thats why government thinks nothing of mandating logging/snooping/data
retention for ISPs. They just don't recognize that the internet was
formed by small mom-n-pop ISPs and that a fairly sizable chunk of
internet access is still handled by the little guys.
- Larry
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