To detect computer / internet / web / email / virus hoaxes, visit
http://www.kumite.com/myths. See their article on the FCC modem tax
legislation urban legend: 'MYTH: the FCC wants Congress to tax every modem
in the U.S. Well-meaning computer users ask you to protest the legislation.
"Tell your congressman to leave modems alone!"'. This is an old hoax in new
clothing, and, if you think about it long enough, makes no sense. There are
too many ways to connect to "the Internet" for this to work, and people
would just dial up and stay connected, incurring only a single charge for
connecting, sort of like they did when AOL offered unlimited access.

Going to CNN's site and searching on key words such as Internet, this is all
I found,
from http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9808/25/netcover.idg/index.html:
The House approved a three-year Internet tax moratorium this summer; the
Senate approved one for six years. But a compromise to resolve the
differences between the bills may succumb to pressure from state and local
governments and reduce the time period of the moratorium to two years.

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