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   FCC is a joke

   

   A Thibodeeaux, Apr 12th, 2007 @ 9:09am

   
   

   Anyone who lives in the southern part of the United States can certainly understand the problem with lack of competition, poor service and incompetent customer support. Having worked with different Telecommunications vendors the merger of AT & T and Bell South does nothing but assure that things will only get worst.
   If you live in Louisiana thank Senator John Breaux for gutting the Telecommunication Act of 1992.

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   DSM, Apr 12th, 2007 @ 9:12am

   
   

   Those jokes are hilarious, and their accuracy makes them even funnier. I love FU jokes, the fact that these people know they can't do jack about the reality of the situation makes it even better.

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   RandomThoughts, Apr 12th, 2007 @ 9:18am

   
   

   What makes you think he was joking?

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   Karl, Apr 12th, 2007 @ 9:40am

   
   

   "Those jokes are hilarious"
   
   I agree. Martin is the next Bill Hicks. Making light of dysfunctional telecom policy and the death of phone company competitors is like nectar from the funny bone gods.
   
   I wish he had done his "I'm an ethically compromised paid AT&T tool" bit. I love that one. The props and costumes are "teh awesome."

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   Really funny

   

   Anonymous Coward, Apr 12th, 2007 @ 10:32am

   
   

   Here's another really funny line he could have used too: So let them eat cake!

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   Techdirt, too Sirius

   

   Allen Runneymeade, Apr 12th, 2007 @ 12:18pm

   
   

   Little did I expect the sewing circle here at Techdirt to go all Barbara Boxer on Martin. We're talking about telecom, not the Iraqi War. It's okay for the Chairman to make a joke once in a while. The FCBA Chairman's Dinner is a once-a-year tradition, much like the Coorespondant's Dinner for the President, where curmudgeon, everything-is-serious attitudes should be checked at the door. Unfortunately, it appears that for snarky, know-it-all bloggers, self-effacing humor doesn't live up to ivory-tower expectations.

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   Oh Yeah ?

   

   Tarky7, Apr 12th, 2007 @ 12:54pm

   
   

   The issue here is not about Iraq, or even unfair trade practice in the US market, the real issue is the revolving door between industry lobbyists and the government.
   
   To go to the heart of the current problems our country is facing is to examine the comments of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.
   
   There needs to be a moratorium on this revolving door to protect our interests as citizens of this country, after all, it is our tax dollars paying this corrupt mercenary to protect we the people from monopolistic business practices.
   
   As to the humor ?
   
   Guess the joke is on us, the taxpayer and consumer.
   
   Ha Ha, Hee Hee, Ho Ho.

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   Re: Techdirt, too Sirius

   

   Charlotte Wolter, Apr 15th, 2007 @ 10:08pm

   
   

   Dear Sirius, It's not funny when he jokes about policies that have worked to ensure that we continue to have a 19th-century communication system. The joke is on us, the consumers. We get to continue to pay for artificially priced, outmoded services. Martin has done inestimable damage to our competitiveness. The Internet is our technology. We had a chance to be the leader, but every year he is in office we fall behind. We could have been the "connected" country. Now we're just some tired old has-been that doesn't quite get it.

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