Gigabyte March on Washington

The ban on Internet tax set to expire Nov 1 unless extended by Congress. Current law, which is set to expire on November 1 unless Congress acts, defines the term as "a service that enables users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet, and may also include access to proprietary content, information and other services as part of a package of services offered to users." Read more here on News.com

The Federal Communications Commission is being asked to do a remarkably silly thing: create mandatory "e-mail address portability."

The idea is that because the U.S. Post Office offers to forward physical mail, and because FCC rules require telephone service providers to offer number portability, the same principle should be extended to e-mail accounts.

I can't bear to write any more at this time about this nonsense, read more about this here at News.com