FCC Net neutrality rules reach mobile apps

CNET ^ | December 23rd | Declan McCullagh

[sauropod]

Internet providers are allowed to block users from committing copyright infringement, "which has adverse consequences for the economy," though the FCC intentionally left ambiguous the extent of this authority.

RIAA is gonna *love* this!

[sauropod]

Rule of Law, Schmool of Law. "Stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool." - The Forehead.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

A thought occured to me.

——————Will you really argue that saying apps can’t be censored is in itself censoring apps?—————

I don’t have to. The FCC(and it’s revolutionaries) has already tipped it’s hand.

They promised up and down they weren’t interested in content. This document proves them to be liars. They are interested in content.

But let’s examine the history of the american progressive revolution and see how it all begins.

Cass Sunstein and his pals obviously aren’t going to force websites into uber-neutrality on the first shot. That’s hardly been how the progressives move.

The ball is now on the field and advancing. At the first yard line, the revolutionaries say they’re uninterested in content. At the second yard line, they change that BUT! they’re really only doing this to protect you.

[antiRepublicrat]

Banning censorship is censorship. Got it.