Unlocking Cell Phones see the big picture

Unlocking Cell Phones  see the big picture

Read this link for some background.
 http://www.zdnet.com/white-house-its-time-to-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking-7000012106/?s_cid=e550

A cell phone is hardware.... it really exists in meat-space.  It can be owned.  The owner should be able to use it as a cell phone.  The owner should be allowed to saw it up with a chainsaw.  The owner should be free to drop it in a spinning food processor.  The owner should be able to move the phone to another network.

If the phone is leased... then someone else owns the phone.  They can dictate how the hone is used.

If someone has signed a contract ... then they should be held to it's terms.  The terms should be made very , very clear and not be designed to trick the customer.  If trickery is employed... then it is fraud.  I have heard a salesman say ...... "don't worry about the small print.. you will not have to abide by the small print"   This is fraud because the saleswoman is not going to be around later to absolve you of any agreements you violate.

The government ( at any level ) does not have to have a dog running in this contest.  There is nothing here for the government to have to sort out.  And many of us know that the government makes issues more convoluted and poisonous than they were to start with.

Free people are polite , courteous , honest ........   anarchists are free

99guspuppet   striving to be Sophont2    wanting to be an omegadog

There are Alpha dogs ( control freaks ) , Beta dogs ( sheeple ) and Omegadogs ( I want to be free and extend that courtesy to others )


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