This breaks the LBN rules so, rather than having the Mods move it. I'll post here.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050808-5182.html<SNIP>Lost in the furor surrounding the decision of the Federal Communications Commission decision to deregulate DSL service in the US was another troubling move. In an attempt to update the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which requires phone companies to enable wiretaps for law enforcement usage, the FCC has decided (PDF) that ISPs and VoIP providers must do the same.
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This new directive seems to be an odd pairing with the FCC's determination that DSL is actually an information service subject to deregulation and not a telecommunications service. However, ISPs are subject to the FCC's whims with regard to the CALEA because the agency "finds that such service is a replacement for a substantial portion of the local telephone exchange." So DSL is an information service that should be subject to minimal governmental regulation. At the same time, it's also a telecommunications service because of the VoIP traffic it carries. It all reminds me of a quote from the venerable Walt Whitman:
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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The police state cometh and America is asleep at the switch
Jay
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