The FCC’s Grand Plan to Control Your Internet, TV, and Phone? (Plan to Save the Postal Service)

ATR ^ | 6/15/10 | Kelly William Cobb

[Andrea19]

...Under the guise of “Net Neutrality” and “consumer protection” the FCC would begin regulating Internet access for the first time under a completely new regulatory scheme (even though they lack the authority to create it). Meanwhile, the FCC would push regulations – cloaked in the heart-warming language of competition and innovation – mandating that your cable box (known as a set-top box) become a “broadband gateway device” controlling access to your Internet, TV, and phone. The FCC has already started looking at set-top box regulations in their National Broadband Plan.

The FCC would then begin setting rates for the total cost of all three services. Chairman Genachowski said he does not intend to set prices for Internet access. However, the legal maneuvering is so tenuous and the desire from left-wing groups so strong that a mere promise to “forbear” from rate setting is certainly no guarantee...

Read more: http://www.atr.org/fccs-grand-plan-control-internet-tv-a5081#ixzz0qwhilAb7

[Andrea19]

Once the government controls telecommunications, it will be so inefficient, Americans will turn back to the post office because at least paper mail is reliably mediocre.

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[Biggirl]

.......Look for this to get thrown out by the courts.

[antiRepublicrat]

We need to find a new name for net neutrality, because what it has become in politics doesn’t have anything to do with net neutality anymore.

[FrankR]

If this kicks in, I'll have cable, phone, cell and internet disconnected until further notice.

This is what you get with a thin-skinned, chicken-$h!+ in charge. I hope he doesn't think that this will win him any support...in fact, he'll probably lose a lot more of the scant support he has left.

Nobody likes to be "regulated" to death.

[dalebert]

no more post office

[muawiyah]

The FCC is remarkably "ignant" if they think any of us even need a "set top box".

I get cable TV, phone service, internet service, and some services not usually advertised to the public at large and I don't have a "set top box".

Sure, that screws me out of about 10 channels on COX, but it also allows me to get NETFLIX on my WII.