Al Franken is a big proponent of Net Neutrality. Why am I not surprised he wants to get his grubby hands all over the Internet?
They state Wheeler was exercising political control of the internet to favor content providers such as Google (that paragon of uncensored speech).
Good. Keep the government intrusion to a minimum.
The only utility which in order to promote ‘freedom of the internet’ barred other utilities from charging for pole space or for damage caused by monstrously heavy cable lines ripping down live power poles?
You mean that FCC created utility? Yes, WSJ, the hint of freedom we have at the moment is very nice.
And since Netflix has so much of the bandwidth already reserved via longstanding agreements, Disney might want to get on the phone with them to work something out before Hulu is a DOA property. We know Google won't be calling them.
Google is both, a content provider, and an ISP.
Google is still a favorite of the liberals, so, Google can’t lose either way.
Al Franken is a big proponent of Net Neutrality. Why am I not surprised he wants to get his grubby hands all over the Internet?
I see all the big censorship companies are against this ruling.
And so we are going back to the horrible, intolerable unregulated Internet of ... 2015?
Oh the horror...
Google+Facebook+YouTube+Leftist Hollywood+the Democrat wanted “Net Neutrality”, so over time the Government ( Them ) could control the Internet. And that is why the are screaming like someone raped their Mother.
[[The rules prohibited broadband providers from blocking, throttling and favoring content,]]
Must be why our internet went from 5 mb p/s to 10 then to 15- and finally to 60 p/s- They musta known this was coming?
In case anybody longs for the days of well-regulated utilities which saved us from the depredations of the free marketplace, consider how well served we were by allowing a utility to monopolize telephone service.
The FCC was created by the Communications Act of 1933, in part to regulate the monopoly phone utility. AT&T was broken up in 1984. During that 50 year period, which included some of the most remarkable technology innovations in human history, the customer experience for US phone customers changed remarkably little.
* Remember party lines, where 5 or 10 houses shared one phone line? They survived into 1970s and 80s in many places, thanks to regulated phone service.
* Remember waiting until 11pm to call grandma, because long distance rates went down at night? Once those wonderful utilities were deregulated in the 1980s, long distance rates dropped by a factor of 10 almost overnight.
* Remember rotary phones? Remember having to pay a monthly rental charge to the phone company? Remember being prohibited from connecting a phone or an answering machine to the line in your own home? Cheap cordless phones, faxes, answering machines and modems, in a vast assortment of varieties and colors, only became available after the utility-idea was killed.
* Do you like your wireless phone? Regulated phone companies had a great version. If you were lucky enough to live in New York and you were wealthy enough and waited long enough, you might be one of the few hundred customers who were permitted to have a wireless telephone in 1970s.
* In one of my favorite examples of the benefits of well-regulated utilities, technical research papers on the CDMA technology that has enabled cheap wireless service were not even permitted to be published in any of the leading communications technical journals in the late 1970s and early 1980s. CDMA was not AT&T’s favored technology and Bell Labs employees controlled the editorial process.
If you want to freeze the Internet in place and make certain that our grandchildren in 2067 will enjoy the exact same browsing experience that we have today in 2017, then by all means let’s go ahead and regulate the Internet as a utility.