Management says the exact same thing when they outsource your job.

Yep, since telephone is under title II regulations, there are many things I would like to say to my friends and family, that damn regulation has continued to stop me. In fact there are so many political and social items I would like to discuss on the phone. Unfortunately that title II regulation keeps making my phone hang up.
PS. Regulation does not always equal we control all of it and decide what will work on it. Usually regulation states how the "owners" must allow competition to utilize it's copper lines.

Business owners were and have always been allowed to speak.
The business they own has not. No one ever said a business person was not allowed to contribute or speak.
The problem is now the business is allowed to speak with as much money as they have.
Having laws that says you are only allowed to contribute X amount means that everyone has the chance to speak and those that are VASTLY more wealthy then others will not be able to drown out all of the "common" folk.

OSHA. Child Labor Laws.
There is 2.

If that was the case then it would still be illegal to plug in your own phone! PSTN IS STILL UNDER TITLE II.
The only reason you can even own your own phone and plug it into the phone line is because of title II.
How do you keep getting to rewrite history to make it suit your agenda!
A belief is not facts. And just because you REALLY believe something does not make it a fact.

Do you just not understand how history works?
Before regulations you had to RENT your phone. You were only allowed 1 provider for your local phone and could pick a long distance carrier.
Insert Title 2, phone lines became dumb pipes, then all the cool stuff you posted about like internet, answering machines, caller id, modems, DSL etc came in to being. Regulations and breaking up AT&T so there was competition is what got everything going.
I say bring back the government that had a backbone and a set of balls. Break up some of these banks! Break up the cable companies! Fuck em. You will hear all the people scream about how the government shouldn't meddle in private business, but its the only thing they listen to. Start breaking them up and see how all of a sudden they start to play nice, so they don't get broken up as well.

How about this. If the company wants to sell goods and services in that country then they will PAY the local tax. Even if it is a 90% tax rate.
Want to sell there pay the tax. Don't like the tax rate don't sell there.

There is no "to be fair". This is how these companies and politicians get away with everything. Well that company came forward and admitted they were raping us so they are better then the ones that don't admit it.
The answer to that is NO. There will be no raping.
You rape you lose. Go to jail, loose your business, etc.
Otherwise they just keep raping and just apologize as soon as they are caught. There is no penalty in the "to be fair" model.
If we want them to change they need to know, if they are caught they are out of business, out of office, in jail, hung by the neck.

I am not a fan of the current republicans but I don't see how this is a bad thing. He is in public office. Any communication involving his position should be available by FOIA. So how is this bad again?

At least we can see when he says "hey shut down that bridge in NJ" or "I will let you write the law and I will say I wrote it if you pay me $25,000"

If Google is hacked, Google takes the hit and looks bad.
If your bank gets hacked, you take the hit, the merchant takes the hit, the bank walks away clean.

It is not identity theft (this makes the individual responsible to resolve.) it is fraud (causing the banks and fed to be responsible to clean it up).
Someone needs to sue the bank because they allowed the fraud to happen then called it identity theft so they could wash their hands of it.

It is called intellectual property. Once a company claims that there product is protected they do not have to disclose whats in it. Look at fracking mixtures. We take the trust us it is safe to people instead of give us a list of whats in it.
The same issue is shown here. Company makes product and yes it puts out fires really well. That is all they test for.
We need laws that state you must list and test what is in your product to make sure it is safe in how it is being applied.

Are water, gas under title II?
No.