[rayiner]

I read your petition. I don't think there's anything perjurious about taking advantage of the regulatory framework you're stuck with while arguing that it's a bad regulatory framework and shouldn't be expanded.

> One day you should actually read what I wrote. Starting in the 1990’s, Verizon got regulators to change the laws to charge customers to fund fiber optic deployments – and instead now-Verizon pocketed the money and didn’t build the networks.

I've almost certainly read more of your organization's publications than 99% of the people on HN reflexively upvoting this story because it fits with their biases and worldview.

I'll concede that you may be right about some of the stuff you bury "below the fold" (e.g. accelerated depreciation), only because I don't have the energy to really dig into those numbers. But the headline numbers, based on the premise that regulators should be setting rates in the first place, that's nonsense. The government shouldn't be in the business telling private companies what prices they can charge.