Nothing personal to the FCC but it should be up to
the netizens to decide. Five people voting for the
rest is not acceptable!!!
Rule #187: No LOLcats
Let’s see, if Affordable Care Act = Unaffordable Care Act and the Marketplace Fairness Act = the Marketplace Unfairness Act then it is safe to assume that Net Neutralitity = Net Bias.
What authorizes the FCC to have any involvement with the internet? Did the bureaucracy just grant itself authority?
One thing’s for sure. The Statists can’t let the internet stay the way it is now.
Anything the Obama Ggv. can do to stifle economic activity they will do.
There is no need for any new laws.
Anyone can put up a webserver in their home on a commodity PC, and host multiple websites on it, but purchasing static IP address internet service.
Their internet provider is just providing a network connection.
They have nothing to do with what goes over the wire and really don’t care about it and should not care.
The price of the connection service is based on how fast the connection is; faster costs more.
That’s already “open”.
And it’s reasonable in that more network traffic in general requires more hardware spending on the providers network to handle their overall network load.
No improvements are needed for the law or regulation.
The wording of this document is classic gibberish that leaves things WIDE OPEN for abuse down the road.
WHO WILL DETERMINE WHAT IS OPENNESS AT THE FCC A FEW YEARS FROM NOW ?
It’s not stated - it’s a wide “open” authorization for the FCC to regulate according to their whim.
“Your website talks about Bibles, which is not “open”, your IP address is hereby shut off to network traffic on port 80, so your website is now shut down”.
“The software you sell on your website is not “open”, so your website is now shut off”. Of course, the software you were selling was just a little too competitive against the wrong organization or business.
The FSF wants all software to ship with source code included, thus eliminating the idea of a software startup business. They’re fine with a SERVICE business, just not a PRODUCT business. You’re supposed to create great software because you like to do that, then turn over your work product to “the world”.
ping.
Basically at the moment, whatever you pay, you get all websites at the same speed...after, you pay extra to get the same speed for certain websites that are popular...Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, etc.
Can somebody educate me on net neutrality? I keep up with different issues, but this hasn’t been one of them. I know it’s bad, but I really don’t know what it means. Just a link to a good article would be great. Ten words or less would be golden. :)
the google bots did not build the telecom backbone the Internet requires but they want it to serve THEIR business model which requires those that have built and keep building the telecom/internet backbone be reduced to operating as a public service to the likes of google et al