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Unlocking phones and tablets should be legal, Obama admin tells FCC

article published on 20 September, 2013

The Obama administration is petitioning the FCC to make moves that will thwart a law that criminalizes the unlocking of smartphones and tablets that are owned by users. Through the NTIA - the President's principal adviser on domestic and international telecommunications and information policy - the White House is petitioning the FCC to make new rules related to unlocking smartphones and tablets. ... [ read the full article ]

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Qliphah
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_ 		23. September 2013 @ 16:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Just so I don't think I'm crazy can someone explain why there are laws in place to prevent other laws from taking effect? What is the point of that? Why use an exemption if you know the law was broken* in the first place?


Oh wait... this is congress we're talking about, of course they fill their plates with as much garbage as possible to make it appear they actually do something.

*Broken as it will never work and has no way to be fixed, not the fact that everyone is out breaking said law... but that's beside the point.
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pmshah
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_ 		28. September 2013 @ 12:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
We in "socialistic democracy" of India are far better off. The entire GSM service it totally unlocked. One can use absolutely ANY sim from any service provider in absolutely ANY GSM phone available in the market. In fact I can even take a CDMA phone from one service provider to alternate one and have it recoded to their service ! THAT IS FREEDOM.

This is what American "capitalistic" and "free market" economy does to the people. You get screwed. I am not surprised by the current figures of the top "1%"ers' income going up by 19.5 % and for the rest of 99% population not even by 1%!
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ddp
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_ 		28. September 2013 @ 14:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
pmshah, free market no & your last sentence also applies to india, democratic & so-called democratic countries like russia.
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aldan
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_ 		28. September 2013 @ 20:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ddp:
 pmshah, free market no & your last sentence also applies to india, democratic & so-called democratic countries like russia.
yeah,like the neil young song goes. "they give you this but you pay for that".
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pmshah
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_ 		30. September 2013 @ 08:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@ddp

I concede but not to the extent as happens in the US. We have parliamentary system of government. The Prime minister is not directly elected by the public but by elected parliament members. Simple 51% majority (some times in coalition), works absolutely unlike the US congressional system where even 59 % does not! Your president can't get anything done. You need another J. Edgar Hoover, but benevolent kind, who has files on ALL politicians and can really get things done!
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ddp
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_ 		30. September 2013 @ 18:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i'm canadian not american so we use same system as you do.
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