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Posted on 04/06/2010 7:59:11 AM PDT by kosciusko51
On Tuesday April 6, 2010, 10:38 am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
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Cmdr. Fitzpatrick being held as a political prisoner in
monroe county tn. he is on a hunger strike. Give ‘em a call
(sheriffs dept.) This man is a great patriot trying to get his charge of treason against the messiah before a crooked ass grand jury and was locked up for his efforts.
Would you expound on this for the education of us technologically impaired folk? Source of high-speed access - cellular or satellite? Antenna - please explain? Wouldn't multiple users bog down the single access point?
Have any more details than that?
Well, that’s heartening! Woohoo!
This sounds like a crisis. Obama will be forced to take the broadband suppliers’ companies away from them for the good of the country.
Nah. Like everything else, it’s just a speed bump for them.
I’d be happier if the decision, which is concise and available at http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/comcastfcc.pdf, bothered to the Constitution. Instead, it merely notes that Congress has not given the FCC the necessary authority. So Congress can grant the authority needed, according to this decision. That should be no problem for this crowd.
IMHO the court should have stated that the FCC has no authorization UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, which grants the central government zero authority to regulate who does what on a private network.
Whoops, sticky typing fingers, my post should have read “...bothered to mention the Constitution.”
It does not, and that’s a problem.
You need a bunch of people to get it started though, and it helps if you're not in an area already provided service by a broadband provider (hence rural wireless). I've done projects where I lived before where we had people make wireless antenna's (its really easy, the internet has many sites for building your own) and put them on their roof, you point your antenna at your neighbors and that starts the network, you can also put repeaters in between to increase coverage area. You're not going to get the speed that wired internet will give you, so you'll have to temper your expectations of the system, but essentially you form a Co-op of the users, everyone contributes to the system, and everyone controls it, you can designate someone to be the technical support or you can hire people to provide that service for the Co-op.
Theres been a lot of success with this type of project in Canada (lots of spread out people, not a lot of broadband), also there are several countries that do this (Bermuda uses distributed wireless to provide internet to its residents).
If you do end up starting something like this up, you'll get a lot of push-back from commercial outfits, often just the threat of something like this could cause them to lower rates in your area (they don't want people working together, threatens their monopoly), but if you can find an industry partner to work with it would give alternatives to people, and its espically good for people in rural areas who use dialup, it also allows cost sharing for sat connections.
its something to think about.
Can I start a pirate FM station now?
Thanks for the insight. It will help me start researching the possibility.
No need to if congress did not give them the authority. There is no law to declare unconstitutional when the government is acting outside the law.
What do they generally listen to?
I’m already seeing things happen that I thought “couldn’t happen here.”
I can’t believe what is happening either. We have Chavez loving socialists who are following his playbook. WHEN we take back our country these self-serving, scums of the earth should be run out of the country or put in jail for treason.
I use a seedbox for downloading/uploading music, movies, etc. I'm pretty much forced to due to my slow ISP speed.
http://www.wirelessinternetreviews.com/consumer/rural-wireless-internet.html
The courts generally take a minimalist approach. If there's no law providing authorization, then they can rule on that ground alone. It's simple, direct, and pretty much impossible to appeal unless the judge gets the law wrong.
Getting into Constitutional issues is trickier, and if the court doesn't have to do it, they generally won't.
If Congress grants the FCC authority and this gets taken back to court again, then questions of Constitutionality matter.
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