On 08/20/2010 01:00 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote: > I'm afraid I missed the hearing, but there is one comment I need to make. > > Government regulation is not the the panacea that some want to make it. > I'm an amatur rocketeer and we (National Association of Rocketry and the > Tripoli Rocketry) just completed a 7 year law suite against the ATF, > costing the organizations over a million dollars, just to get the ATF to > remove our primary rocket fuel off the low explosives list (since it > wasn't). Being on the list required all of us to submit to a ATF > background check (including finger printing and photographs) as well as > some pretty tough and expensive regulations on storage and record > keeping. All this for something that was no more explosive than a > railroad flair. > Yes, government regulation is sometimes bad. You highlight a prime example of that. Corporate regulation is almost always worse, especially when a for-profit corporation has the ability to control your access to information and products. Not all regulations come from the government, and the whole point of Net Neutrality is to keep corporations that provide physical access to the Internet from imposing their own regulations on how their end-users may use it. -- Dan