What specific regulations do you feel were onerous and unnecessary with respect to VOIP? (This is a legitimate question, not a trolling attempt. ) On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 5:36 PM Matt Hoppes < mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
No. Please no. We need less regulation. Not more.
VoIP started out the same way. Very simple to start offering voip. Worked well. Then the government got involved. Now it’s a mess of requirements, warnings and reporting.
On Mar 8, 2019, at 5:22 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/tech/emergency-alert-netflix-hulu-streaming/i...
New York (CNN Business) The federal emergency alert program was designed
decades ago to interrupt your TV show or radio station and warn about impending danger — from severe weather events to acts of war.
But people watch TV and listen to radio differently today. If a person
is watching Netflix, listening to Spotify or playing a video game, for example, they might miss a critical emergency alert altogether.
"More and more people are opting out of the traditional television
services," said Gregory Touhill, a cybersecurity expert who served at the Department of Homeland security and was the first-ever Federal Chief Information Security Officer. "There's a huge population out there that needs to help us rethink how we do this."
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