Posted on 08/09/2010 11:07:38 AM PDT by Andrea19
...The FCC facilitated the talks between anti-regulation Internet service providers and pro-“Net Neutrality” websites, who want the Commission to establish rules for managing Internet data traffic. However, as discussions evolved over the past months, the FCC continued its infamous “Title II” proceedings, which would be used to both enact Net Neutrality under arcane laws and open the door to numerous other regulations.
As soon as the talks appeared to become fruitful (with both sides coming to some agreement), the neo-Marxists who have the ear of FCC Chairman Genachowski balked. “It is the end of the Internet as we know it,” whined Josh Silver of Free Press, decrying the fact that private Internet companies were reaching agreement on their most contentious policy issue. Then, almost on a dime, the FCC halted the discussions, somehow blaming it on select parties for reportedly reaching a deal on one way to quickly deliver content.
The truth is the FCC is held hostage by the neo-Marxists at Free Press, Public Knowledge, and Media Access Project, for whom regulating the Internet is not about how companies should manage Internet traffic. For these groups, its about giving government the ability to turn the Internet into a de facto public utility with the authority to set prices, monitor content, and establish other regulations...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/fcc-sides-neo-marxists-continues-internet-a5297#ixzz0w8ImUS6N
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call your congressmen ...isnt it invasion of privacy..dont we pay a tax to them for telephone and cable?
call your congressmen ...isnt it invasion of privacy..dont we pay a tax to them for telephone and cable?
Should be interesting! We have such a great government today(not). I really expect the bubble bursts before long and all hell breaks out.
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