[llevrok]

The federal government can’t wait to control the internet by issuing licenses for web sites, deciding what is necessary for “the common good,” and getting to tax access to the net

Yup. The same FCC that allowed a Civil War telegraph tax to stay on phone bills since...well... the civil war!

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Yup. The same FCC that allowed a Civil War telegraph tax to stay on phone bills since...well... the civil war!

The Federal telephone excise tax was originally levied to pay for the Spanish-American Civil war. The administrating department is the IRS, not the FCC.