STOP UNNECESSARY FCC REGULATION! 
WE HAVE RECENTLY RECEIVED THIS EMAIL...

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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 20:16:14 -0500
X-Sender: rollix@iu.net
To: "Michael Adkins" 
From: Rollix 
Subject: Fw: [Fwd: FCC Considering Per-Minute Charges for Internet -
  HELP

>>> This email message is to inform you of a very important matter currently
>> under review by the FCC. Many local telephone companies, including PRTC,
>> have filed a proposal with the FCC to impose per minute charges for
>Internet
>> service. They contend that use of Internet has or will hinder the
>operation
>> of the telephone network.
>> 
>> Internet usage will diminish if users were required to pay additional per
>> minute charges.
>> 
>> The FCC has created an email box for comments regarding this proposal,
>> responses must be received by February 13, 1997. Send your comments to
>> isp@fcc.gov and tell them what you think.
>> 
>> For more information on this, and to see the comments which the FCC has
>> received, go to this page on the FCC's web site:
>> http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Comments/access_reform/
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AND HERE WAS MY REPLY....

I am strongly against the regulation of Internet Services and hold that the solution to the problem is not related to government regulation.

This kind of thinking is anathema to you most likely, but you must understand (and eventually will) that the success of the WWW is due partly to the fact that it is free of your involvement.

As an FCC staffer, you may or may not take exception to this viewpoint, but rest assurred that government itself has a tendency to seek control above and beyond reasonable limits.

Fortunately, the internet community is much more educated and ready for action than the average citizen, and every legal means will be exerted by it's enlightened audience to prevent invasive and unnecessary government interference!

Market forces have been successful in reducing long distance charges since deregulation, and if this isn't proof enough, I don't know what is. Leave the internet alone and allow market forces to shape it's growth. An informed public will successfully prevent the problems that money hungry corporations with feelers into your agency are fabricating by forecasting inflated costs for network growth.

Contrary to the current trend of expanding government, America is still a free nation and deserves its information to not be taxed or regulated!!!

If some providers make false claims and undercut the more forward oriented ISP's and information providers, time will (as it is starting to happen to AOL) flush them out of the market. Please allow this to happen. No thinking American will fault you for staying out of it!

Sincerely,



PLEASE WRITE A SIMILIAR LETTER TODAY AND GET THE WORD
OUT TO THE CONCIENTIOUS CITIZENRY!

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE AND RETAIN CONTROL OF INFORMATION AMONG THE PEOPLE.

EMAIL THEM TODAY!

isp@fcc.gov
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