AT&T wants to convert all residential phone lines to VOIP, and take the opportunity to abolish the regulations that protect subscribers from abuses.

Using a technical advance as an opportunity to deal people a legal setback is an instance of Stallman's Law.

Most Americans have very few choices of ISPs. We should take the regulations for phone companies and apply them directly to ISPs. If we make ISPs common carriers, they won't be allowed to discriminate in any way.