Re: Marriott wifi blocking

[Clay Fiske <clay () bloomcounty org>]

On Oct 6, 2014, at 1:16 PM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:

> Hi Clay,
>
> It isn't that simple. Marriott offended against multiple laws and
> regulations in multiple jurisdictions.
>
> The FCC's concern is use of the spectrum. This they addressed --
> intentionally preventing others' use of the spectrum gets you spanked.


Hi Bill,

Right. So I think I was approaching it a different way, and I probably wasn’t clear enough about that. My question 
wasn’t meant to justify the response (deliberately booting people from non-Marriott SSIDs), it was about whether they 
had any legitimate right to claim that other wifi networks were impacting their own network’s performance, specifically 
based on the FCC’s position that a new transmitter should not disrupt existing operations. I was not in any way 
intending to say that their -response- was legitimate. 

Anyway, I think the departed horse has been suitably tenderized. Apologies for not being clearer, nothing to see here, 
etc.


Thanks,

-c