[Andrea19]

A federal court has defeated an attempt to force net neutrality on America; FCC Commissioners cannot squash anti-Obama dissent, crown Google, and demand a rewrite of WoW Rules so they win every game.

[Man50D]

The mere existence of the FCC is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate communications.

[jessduntno]

“A federal court has defeated an attempt to force net neutrality on America; FCC Commissioners cannot squash anti-Obama dissent, crown Google, and demand a rewrite of WoW Rules so they win every game.”

They’ll try again under the COMMERCE CLAUSE...

[Tarpon]

Government run and censored Internet, delayed but not stopped. Net Neutrality is the warm fuzzy commie vehicle, using the ruse of the big companies are screwing you already.

The group “Free Press” is another of these Soros front groups designed to throw you off the track ... Hey who is against free press right? Another commie ruse.

Will the recent made up EPA CO2 rules follow? Here’s hoping.

[fireman15]

I am not sure how to feel about this. I definitely do not support government agencies such as the EPA and the FCC overstepping their bounds. This thing is being spun in a very deceptive way, and this article is a perfect example.

Unfortunately, in our area Comcast was granted a monopoly on cable internet by King County. In the outlying area where we live there essentially is no alternative to Comcast if one wants high speed internet access. Even if another company wanted to compete by laying there own fiber they would not be allowed to.

This lawsuit had absolutely nothing to do with squashing anti-Obama dissent, crowning Google, and demanding a rewrite of WoW Rules so they win every game. Comcast began throttling the connection speed of people using BitTorrent clients. The FCC asked them to stop and they did, but they sued challenging the FCC’s authority to keep them from throttling BitTorrent clients.

I don't use BitTorrent on a very often, but there are some legitimate purposes for BitTorrent. It is essentially a very decentralized file sharing protocol. This means if one wants to distribute information and materials in a way that cannot be easily “squashed” BitTorrent might be the best way to do it. For instance... if you had a video or audio recording of a very sensitive political nature and you set up a torrent and there is a good chance that it would be very difficult to shut it down. Unlike YouTube or other online video services where the video could be pulled literally in seconds.

In 2008 Comcast also ended their users Newsgroup access. In the case of Newsgroups however, one can subscribe to independent Newsgroup servers and still get access through Comcast.

My worry is that Comcast now basically has the green light to shut down NetFlix streaming video, High Definition Youtube and other online streaming video sources. They could also shut down Vonage and other Internet phone services. All of these compete directly with services provided for a fee through Comcast. It is only a matter of time...

This is a situation that is being spun in a way that is very disingenuous. The threat to free speech in this case is not from FCC regulators, but from a corporation that has been granted monopoly status in many areas by local governments.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Hit the road Julius. Youse boys don’t own these interwebs.