Posted on 05/05/2010 2:04:02 PM PDT by abb
or another possibility is ...
It means that porn packets will get the same priority as your skype and VoIP calls.
Wow, why do these creeps always float up?
No clue, but somehow, they will find a way to pick my pockets.
OK, where has this happened? Which sites where filtered?
I’m hoping that the speed at which internet/web technology is advancing will outpace any laws or regulations that attempt to control it.
Speech yearns to be free; it is the natural human condition, I believe.
The internet represents the most advanced form of Free Speech yet devised by mankind.
Julius Genachowski info from Wikipedia
“He worked on the select committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair and for U.S. Representative (now Senator) Chuck Schumer. He was Chief Counsel to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, a position he left in 1996 to go into business.
For the Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign, Genachowski was Chairman of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications policy working group that created the Obama Technology and Innovation Plan. He also advised and guided the Obama campaign’s innovative use of technology and the Internet for grassroots engagement and participation.
He co-led the Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform Group for president-elect Barack Obama’s presidential transition team. On January 12, 2009, several news outlets reported that Genachowski would be President-Elect Obama’s choice to head the Federal Communications Commission as Chairman. This was confirmed by a press release on March 3, 2009.”
>>How does the FCC have the authority to do this??!! Didn’t the courts just rule that the FCC does not have the authority? Can someone explain how they can do this?
How many tank divisions do the courts have? Any court decision against the FedGov is unenforceable.
I bet I know what that means: free ObamaBroadband is here!
The solution is for the telco utilities to give up their quasi-governmental powers like eminent domain and rent-free usage of everyone’s private property in return for complete deregulation. Then they can operate like any other business in the USA, without the special privileges.
I think the deal was that the FCC didn't have the authority because they had designated the Internet as a "data service". Now they are redesignating it as a "communication service", which gives them authority. Something like that.
If you like your current internet connection, you will be able to keep your current internet connection. I promise. No, I really mean it this time.
“to enforce net neutrality”
Translated from Newspeak, that means censorship, to insure that “both” sides are equally represented
(so if the free market wants more of Rush than of Air America, the free market will have to be “corrected” by government intervention).
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...You could have regulators involved in every facet of providing Internet over time. How wholesale and prices are set, how networks are interconnected and requirements that they lease out portions of their network," he said.
Not good.
bttt
Bullcrap. This is a ‘solution’ in search of a problem. Name for us what sites were slowed down and by whom, please.
All of the morons advocating this are just losers who are willing to sell out everyone’s one true platform for freedom of speech because they think their damn torrents will download a couple minutes sooner. They should all be ashamed.
Wouldn’t it be something if they resurrected Air America with this new policy?
The Supreme Court told the FCC to stop trying to regulate the Internet in this manner. So, the FCC goes, well, the Internet doesn't fall under those rules, so we'll regulate it under some other rules. This is Cass Sunstein, the Regulation Czar, and Mark Lloyd, the FCC Diversity Czar, using any means they can muster to shut down the Web as we have known it. The Web is KILLING their socialist agenda, and they must control that, or be doomed to fail in "transforming" our Republic into something else.
The want to bring broadband to all the less fortunate folk. That says to me that a tax or a mandate of some kind is going to jack up the price of internet usage for those of who already pay so those that aren’t and don’t will get a free ride on our buck. Anyone else see that? That’s one way to curb the free flow of information. Price the internet out of reach by charging by the minute at high rates. Already that way in some areas of Europe. Hope I’m wrong.
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