That's all I can think after I read the text of a speech Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick gave earlier this year at the Air Force Academy. Then she calls for a centralized government agency to deal with the problem of the Internet. It might be that we can just designate an existing agency to take the lead. Maybe treating software as a munition makes sense after all. That has not been our way for 200 years, and it must not become our way now.
Talk is cheap.
Every concern the president expressed about the initial legislation has been dealt with on a bipartisan basis. Today we had a victory for the American economy and the American consumer with the bipartisan agreement to create a telecommunications industry for the 21st Century in a way that will lower prices, increase and improve services in telecommunications and preserve the diversity of voices and viewpoints in television and radio that are essential to our democracy. Stay tuned for more reports. Cherry v. Reno has not yet been formally consolidated with Shea v. Reno.