FC: Senate approves online booze ban; FCC, landlords, and telcos

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/15/2120258&mode=nested

   Senate Votes to Restrict Online Booze Sales
   posted by cicero on Sunday October 15, @04:19PM
   from the so-junior-doesn't-order-that-$45-california-merlot dept.

   The U.S. Senate voted 95-0 last week to restrict online alcohol
   sales. The purported reason: Beer and wine wholesalers claim it
   would protect children. "This law will put real power behind
   state efforts to enforce laws that require responsible marketing (and)
   ID checks," one lobbyist said in a Wired News article. The real
   reason: Wholesalers fear being bypassed by mail order firms -- that
   would mean losing lucrative markups -- and have handed millions of
   dollars in campaign contributions to Congress. The House has already
   approved the bill, part of an unrelated measure about trafficking in
   sex slaves, and the president is expected to sign it shortly.




http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/14/1956211&mode=nested

   FCC Wants to Force Net Access on Landlords
   posted by cicero on Saturday October 14, @02:47PM
   from the so-much-for-private-property dept.

   Adam Thierer of the conservative Heritage Foundation writes in
   with a recent article he wrote about the FCC. He's angry about
   a proposed regulation the agency is considering: It requires
   apartment and office building owners to let telcom companies wire
   the place, at a cost to be determined by the Feds. So much for
   private property, eh? Thierer's article is below.




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