FCC approves Net-wiretapping taxes

[BadgerKid]

WASHINGTON--Broadband providers and Internet phone companies will have to pick up the tab for the cost of building in mandatory wiretap access for police surveillance, federal regulators ruled Wednesday.

The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to levy what likely will amount to wiretapping taxes on companies, municipalities and universities, saying it would create an incentive for them to keep costs down and that it was necessary to fight the war on terror. Universities have estimated their cost to be about $7 billion.

http://news.com.com/FCC+approves+Net-wiretapping+taxes/2100-1028_3-6067971.html

[Sinti]

1. You have to pay to let them spy on you - but the tax cuts are extended n/t

[cascadiance]

3. It'll even out later...

Once we get the Bush and Cheney families to pay for the prisons that we will lock them away in when we finish their impeachments. Otherwise we'll put them in with the prison masses, where they MIGHT last a week!

[NorthernSun]

2. Bend over again boys

I read an old book called 'Hitler's Germany'. Looks like Karl Rove has read it too.

[OneBlueSky]

4. hell, they'll just pass the costs on to the customer . . .

that's how corporations do it . . . and they get all the tax and regulatory relief on top of it . . .

nice gig if you can get it . . .