[ale] [OT] White House Petition to Legalize Mobile-Phone Unlocking

[Jay Lozier]

On 02/22/2013 09:47 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Just thought I'd post this update.
>
> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/white-house-phone-unlocking
>
> quote ----->
>
> The President Barack Obama administration must enter the mobile-phone-unlocking fray.
>
> Thanks to a whitehouse.gov petition reaching 100,000 signatures Thursday, the administration must respond publicly about a recent decision by copyright regulators making it illegal to unlock mobile phones purchased after January 26.
>
> <----- end quote
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
Unfortunately, I doubt the government will allow unlocking being that 
they are technological id10ts.
>
> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> As an FYI:
>>>
>>> The number of signatures for petitions deals with when the Obama
>> White
>>> House will decide they need to respond.  NOT with whether they will
>> respond
>>> the way you want.
>>>
>>> For example the petition to let Texas secede from the US because it
>> is not
>>> legally part of the US (according to the petition's authors) is
>> unlikely to
>>> go anywhere despite the number of signatures on it.
>>>
>>>
>>> And the petition to kick Texas out is going nowhere as well.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> Ron
>>> Frazier (ALE)
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:24 PM
>>> To: ALE
>>> Subject: [ale] [OT] White House Petition to Legalize Mobile-Phone
>> Unlocking
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This came from another forum I'm on.  This petition is getting close
>> to
>>> 100,000 signatures.  If it goes over that, we may get the right to
>> unlock
>>> our phones back.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> ---------------
>>>
>>> "Sign a whitehouse.gov petition by Saturday and, if the petition
>> reaches
>>> 100,000 signatures, the administration must respond publicly about a
>> recent
>>> decision by copyright regulators making it illegal to unlock mobile
>> phones
>>> purchased after January 26. Unlocking enables a phone to operate on a
>>> compatible carrier of a consumer's choosing."
>>>
>>> White House Petition to Legalize Mobile-Phone Unlocking
>>> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/mobile-unlocking-petition/
>>>
>>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bdxzsba
>>>
>>>
>>>
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