Posted on 05/05/2010 2:04:02 PM PDT by abb
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has decided to reregulate Internet lines to protect net neutrality, siding with consumer groups and Internet companies worried that Internet providers have too much power.
On Wednesday, Mr. Genachowski's staff began briefing the FCC's commissioners on how they will propose to regulate Internet lines under rules that were written for traditional phone networks. Some of those rules won't be applied to Internet networks, FCC officials say, but others will be used to enforce net neutrality, or regulations that require Internet providers to treat traffic equally and not slow or block websites.
Phone and cable companies opposed the FCC reclassifying regulation of Internet lines under Title 2 of the Communications Act, which was written for traditional phone networks and includes provisions such as rate regulations.
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I pay more in tax and surcharge on my phone bill now than the tax on the fuel I use each month.
I think a better example might be something like voice over IP. If your broadband provider wants to sell you VoIP, it can't exploit its monopoly position to expand into that market by prioritizing its VoIP packets over those from potential competitors.
That said, fed will overreach, as usual.
The rule here is “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”; just map “regulation” into “censorship” and that’s the gross of the matter. Yes, if regulation gets too nasty engineers will find technical ways to work around it. But that shouldn’t need to happen.
If there's just one thing to know about this, that's it.
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/prerevolution/section10.rhtml
To the Brink: The Boston Massacre and the Committees of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence provided this organization. The first large- scale attempt at close and continuous pan-colonial political cooperation over a large area, the committees linked all of the colonies as one political force. In Massachusetts the committees worked especially well. Linked to all of the interior communities, Samuel Adams was able to spread his message of political education, advancing the principles of colonial rights. The committees convinced local citizens that their rights were in danger and encouraged voting. The colony-wide committees provided a method through which colonial leaders could communicate, and established the framework of the colonies’ early attempts at independent government.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/05/06/how-the-fcc-plans-to-regulate-internet-lines/
How the FCC Plans to Regulate Internet Lines
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/05/06/fcc-plans-hard-line-on-net-neutrality-will-carriers-cut-cap-ex/
FCC Plans Hard Line On Net Neutrality; Will Carriers Cut Cap Ex?
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/05/strong-reactions-to-fcc-chiefs.php
Strong Reactions To FCC Chief’s Broadband Move
Only at FR could I learn that there was something called a “porn packet” !!
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If we don’t have the government regulating how we communicate, it will just be communication chaos!
Only a liberal would want communication chaos!
You want anyone to just talk to anyone else about whatever is on their mind? That’s kookery!
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe cable companies still get protectionist/monopolist contracts from local government.
Assuming that is the case, the solution is to abolish the exclusive contracts between local governments and cable companies.
Meddling in the market is bad when the federal gov does it. It is bad when local gov does it. The only difference is scope. Fewer people's lives are made worse off when local gov does it.
He wanted radio networks to be “owned by the public” for the greater good.
Whenever a politician says "public" or "society," check to see if he means anything other than government. This will not usually be the case. It's Newspeak, nothing more.
Beck is discussing this.
Last night, Hannity & Morris remarked that the NWO conspiracists are.....right.
Good guess
Power grab by NObama & the Czar shadow government to control/shut down the internet whenever they want to.
They fear our ability to communicate so quickly.
Gubment by fiat.::
Czars are running the USA in the form of a shadow government.
They were never vetted by Congress, nor approved by Congress.
They are answerable ONLY to NObama.
No opne knows how they are paid- or how much.
No one knows who their staffs are- or who pays them- or how much they are being paid.
In a real world-—Waxman & NObama would be indicted & tried for treason.
Once the FCC gets their hands on the Internet they will surely ruin it. The government destroys anything it takes over from the private sector.”
IIRC- Jesse Jackson JR is the head of the FCC.
Anyone out there who can clarify this?
>>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.”
The Kenyan in the White House does not care what the law is- nor what the courts say, unless he agrees with the courts.
He loves the Executive Orders priviledges.
He has never learned about the need for not doing something just because you CAN do it.
Didn’t you know? It’s defined on RFC-69. Lenny from networking told me, he says they even did a movie about that. Somehow it’s not on YouTube.
“Some ISPs WERE thinking about somehow favoring access to their “portal” site and inhibiting access to other portal sites...”
Do you mean like old time AOL? Before what we know now as “internet” there were providers that let you dial in to their servers, and then you had access to their content, and getting out to other networks was kind of “second rate” access. That didn’t stick. Competition gave direct access to “the net” (not “a portal”) and AOL eventually switched to what we know now.
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