Keep Your Hands Off My Internet, Tesh!

Folks called me crazy when I said Representative Edward Markey (the current US Congression winner in the John Tesh look-a-like running) acted like he knew a lot about technology, but really doesn’t. Ars Technica is currently running a story about a bill he’s proposing, that upon deeper introspection, has quite insidious overtones in terms of the increase of government regulation on the world’s Internet. Unfortunately, Ars seems to miss a bit of the implications of this in their coverage of the bill. From their article: Edward Markey’s (D-MA) “21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008″ (H.R. 6320) covers about a dozen areas. The proposed law requires hearing-aid compatibility of all broadband telephone products and mandates a certain level of ease in accessing captions on TV with remote control devices.... [read full story]