OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your Cellphone

[Derek Trotter]

You make some good points.  It does make sense to have one standard for 
the nation instead of 50 for radio, tv, cell phones, etc.  I do have to 
wonder why the FCC should have any involvement in a radio station whose 
signal does not reach beyond Arizona.  If someone wants to establish a 
radio station in Ajo and only cover Ajo, why should they have to get 
permission from some bureaucrat in Washington?

On 02/16/2013 11:25 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:
>  While it has been used wrongly in some ways, that doesn't mean your 
> interpretation is correct. In fact it makes no mention excluding the 
> rights solely to taxation/tariffs. In the case of something like Radio 
> waves that don't pay attention to political borders, it makes sense 
> for them to be regulated at the Federal level rather than the State. 
> Unless, you'd rather have to find a router for your network that only 
> worked in AZ...
>>
>> Commerce clause has been false interpreted to extend Federal 
>> authority.  It was put in place to ensure there were no trade tariffs 
>> between states.  Not to regulate commerce as large.
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>>
>> --- On *Sat, 2/16/13, Kevin Brown /<kevinbrownbdc at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>>     From: Kevin Brown <kevinbrownbdc at gmail.com>
>>     Subject: Re: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your
>>     Cellphone
>>     To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>>     Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013, 2:07 PM
>>
>>       The FCC exists under the Commerce clause of the US Constitution.
>>     > Are cellular phones one of the numerated power of the Federal
>>     Government?
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > ------------------------
>>     > Keith Smith
>>     >
>>     > --- On *Sat, 2/16/13, ChasM Marshall /<chasm750 at hotmail.com
>>     </mc/compose?to=chasm750 at hotmail.com>>/* wrote:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >     From: ChasM Marshall <chasm750 at hotmail.com
>>     </mc/compose?to=chasm750 at hotmail.com>>
>>     >     Subject: RE: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock 
>> Your
>>     >     Cellphone
>>     >     To: "plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>     </mc/compose?to=plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>"
>>     > <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>     </mc/compose?to=plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>>
>>     >     Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013, 1:42 PM
>>     >
>>     >     What am I doing?
>>     >     Well, I've NEVER bought a cell phone.  Carriers don't appear
>>     to be
>>     >     regulated.
>>     >     I've waited half my life just to see "Do Not Call" enforced 
>> at a
>>     >     Federal level.
>>     >
>>     > 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     >     Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:02:51 -0700
>>     >     To: plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>     </mc/compose?to=plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>>     >     From: l.tuttle at cox.net </mc/compose?to=l.tuttle at cox.net>
>>     >     Subject: OT: Re: Starting Today, It's Illegal to Unlock Your
>>     Cellphone
>>     >
>>     >     Yes, I agree.  The question is, "What are you doing about
>>     it?"  An
>>     >     inch at a time.....
>>     >
>>     >     At 11:00 AM 1/26/2013, Derek Trotter wrote:
>>     >
>>     >         I can't argue Keith.  This is no longer a free country. 
>>     It's
>>     >         not even a republic.  It's a bureaucracy. People who are
>>     >         unelected and unaccountable to the people are now 
>> making the
>>     >         laws and changing them anytime they feel like it.
>>     >
>>     >         On 01/26/2013 08:28 AM, keith smith wrote:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >             I know some of you do not agree with my limited
>>     government
>>     >             position, however this is what a run away government
>>     >             does.  We pay for our phones with those two year
>>     >             contracts.  Our rates would be lower if they did not
>>     >             "subsidize" our phones.  These phones are our 
>> property.
>>     >
>>     >             Hold onto your seat.  This is just an example of how
>>     a run
>>     >             away government is going to treat it's people.
>>     >
>>     >             This is not freedom, this is bondage.
>>     >
>>     >             Th article says in part:
>>     >
>>     >             The worst-case scenario for an individual or civil
>>     offense
>>     >             could be as much as a $2,500 fine. As for those 
>> planning
>>     >             to profit off of the act or a criminal offense --
>>     such as
>>     >             a cellphone reseller -- the fine could be as high as
>>     >             $500,000 and include prison time.
>>     >
>>     >
>> http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/now-illegal-unlock-cellphone/story?id=18319518
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >             ------------------------
>>     >             Keith Smith
>>     >
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