ON PICTURING INTERNET REGULATORS IN ACTION

AND THE LIST GOES ON...

This picture from the Technology Futurist (click for larger image), while funny in its own right, brought to mind for me a picture caption of our iron-handed regulators in action on Internet related issues. 

The picture depicts a consumer eagerly surfing on a TV atop a typewriter, while fielding an iron-mouse. 

I would have liked to add a wireline "AT&T" style telephone with a headset-microphone attached, along with rabbit-ear antennas atop the TV for wireless access, and a rear-view mirror, but you get the idea.

You can plug in your own issue from a smorgasbord of possibilities, depending on your hot buttons:

1. overtly anti-consumer content/DRM regulation,
2. restricting municipal free wireless broadband, 
3. demanding e911 compliance from internet telephony providers while less than 30% of cellular customers have 911 provided by the cellular carriers,
4. copyright protections that aggressively protect copyright oligopolies rather than copyright owners,
5. regulating radio and broadcast frequencies while technology makes the very idea of bandwidth scarcity irrelevant,
6. ADD YOUR OWN PET REGULATOR PEEVE HERE.