Posted on 12/08/2010 9:49:38 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is finally tackling the long-time Network Neutrality debate.
FCC chair Julius Genachowski is putting Network Neutrality or Net Neutrality for short on the tentative agenda for the scheduled open meeting on December 21. The debate centers on regulations that would require Internet service providers like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T to treat all web traffic equally, instead of allowing them to decide which sites and applications should upload faster or slower.
We all have been waiting a very long time for the FCC to take action, said Chancellar Williams, advocacy manager for the Media and Democracy Coalition, a collaboration of over two-dozen local and national organizations advocating for an open democratic media system.
(Excerpt) Read more at queenscourier.com ...
And now the wiklileaks bunch is suggesting they can’t be stopped without controlling the net.
Didn’t the US Supreme court just rule that the FCC does not have authority over the cable providers? (almost by implication the internet)? And what is “public” about the internet infrastructure??
FCC has no authority over satellite radio either,,, so where do they get statutory authority to try this?
To the DEMS: This is a bridge too far.
Why would they let any of that stop them?
We say un neutral things. Therefore we need to be silenced. The internet *WILL* be neutral and they’ll be the ones to enforce it.
They believe the action is in the reaction.
I also find it suspicious that Hillary's State Dept was heavily targeted with these leaks, but nothign about Obama.
There is many things that don’t pass the smell test concerning the leaks. If they were actually “leaks”.
The FCC should not exist. How many FReepers will claim that abolishing the web and free speech, though, is a small price to pay to keep us “free” and “safe” from terrorists and other “bad people” who are releasing cables detailing how the federal government is plotting to screw Americans?
The bad people we need to be worried about are in the federal government.
But really, when everyone decided that the overriding thing in life was the statistically small threat of a terrorist on an airplane, Americans abdicated their claim to their birthright of freedom and liberty.
Don't you know that if the FCC did not exist, the children would all be forced to watch porn in prime-time and only listen to people swearing on the radio.
It is so much easier to have the government police everyone else than to be a parent, you know?
I think most freepers get it on net neutrality. From what I’ve seen, most realize that it’s the fairness doctrine for the internet.(or worse)
And most of the alphabet soup government agencies should be abolished. Their existence makes us less safe, not moreso.
FCC has no authority over satellite radio either,,, so where do they get statutory authority to try this?
There's nothing for it but to successfully sue.
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