[Kansas58]

This is GREAT news!
Even in DC, the Courts are saying that Obama must have authority, in law, before Obama can act!

[RC2]

Net neutrality is simply the control of Free Speech. The only reason for Net neutrality is to control your free speech and track it.

[historyrepeatz]

Marxist rule in a republic makes for many court decisions. We’re witnessing a battle between our Marxist leaders and the upholders of our Constitution (Federal courts and SCOTUS). Notice a spike in court decisions resulting from Obama’s regime? Health care bill decisions coming soon..

[GOP Poet]

:-D!

[FoxPro]

Waiting from you Freepers to chime in on this.

Hoping someone here can explain the trade-offs on this from a FR perspective.

I don’t want to try to sort this all out from a MSM news perspective. I just don’t have the time.

What is the bottom line on this?

Any parallels to the Tennessee Valley Authority mess from the 1930’s?

I live on the Internet now, so this is important to me.

Thanks
Jeff

[circlecity]

I would also note that last week I received an e-mail from Comcast notifying me that Comcast would begin charging more for customers who use excessive amounts of bandwidth. I have no problem with Comcast wanting to charge customers who use extremely large amounts of their product more than they charge me. It helps keep my bills from going up to subsidize those who download vast amounts of porn and pirate music and movie files.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Bad news is that this ruling is based on existing communications law and not the Constitution (meaning it can be reversed with a bang of Queen Nancy’s gavel)

[taxcontrol]

This problem could have easily been handled with a disclosure requirement. Something like the statement below. Net Neutrality is little more than an attempt to assert control of the federal government over private property.

If you the service provider, filter or restrict bandwidth in any way, you must disclose that at the time of sale.

[silverleaf]

obama will soon issue an executive order bypassing this minor inconvenience

or maybe pelosi will whip up some new legislation and get it signed off by Barry in a week or so

Progressivism will not be denied

[dr_who]

Hope the conservatives and fence sitters on the court stay healthy.

[fireman15]

I have mixed feelings on this one. It is wrong for government agencies to overstep their authority, but where I am at Comcast is the only game in town. For me it is either Comcast or nothing. It is a little worrysome when Comcast starts restricting access to certain types of internet traffic. In this case Comcast started throttling BitTorrent traffic and were told not to by the FCC. On October 15, 2008 Comcast discontinued their Newsgroup service.

I hardly ever use a BitTorrent client, but I use Newsgroups fairly frequently. Fortunately you can subscribe to a third party Newsgroup provider. On occassion one finds something that is available only through BitTorrent. It is a good way to distribute information that one prefers to be decentralized and more difficult to shut down. For those unfamiliar, BitTorrent is essentially a file sharing protocol. It has plenty of illegitimate uses but legitimate uses as well.

What I am concerned about now that Comcast has prevailed... is that they will start restricting my access to NetFlix streaming video, or my Vonage phone account. Both Vonage and NetFlix compete directly with services provided by Comcast. Comcast has a monopoly for the services they provide now and probably for quite a while to come in the area where I live.

[Nachum]

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