-—————I would like to see clear complete explanation of what is being proposed.-——————
You’re not going to get that. A clear explanation.
These media marxists know they’d have full and open revolt on their hands if they did that.
There have been some unintentional leaks, however. Listen to this audio and weep.
The above post should be appended a bit.
From the FCC’s standpoint, their current regulatory proposals are fairly bland. They certainly don’t reach as far as the media marxists want them to. And the media marxists have been very vocal, like clockwork. Over at biggovernment.com they’ve done a very good job of catalogging all of this as it’s happened. They’re one of the few news outlets that’s actually been willing to look past the noise and see what these people are saying, behind the scenes. That’s when they’ll tell the truth.
But these marxists, like all other marxists, are never satisfied until they have complete and total control. Which is what makes McChesney’s words - the ones you quoted - so profound. He comes incredibly close to admitting the true intent of what net neutrality has always been all along.
My understanding of it: We’ve had de facto net neutrality for years — it’s been a sort of gentlemen’s agreement between the ISPs since the beginning, “You don’t mess with my customers’ access; I won’t mess with yours.”
The FCC wants to make that agreement official and give itself the authority to enforce it with fines and such. It already has similar authority over the telephone companies via the ‘common carrier restrictions’.
CCRs prevent an individual phone company from giving their customers’ signals priority over those belonging to another company’s customers. As long as you pay the agreed upon fee for the agreed upon service with your phone company, they can’t interfere with the routing of your call or prevent you from calling a particular number.
For example, if I place a call from my home AT&T number to my mom who happens to be a Verizon customer, Verizon can’t charge AT&T extra or bump my call to make room for more Verizon-to-Verizon calls — and by the same token, AT&T can’t tinker with the routing to give higher priority to AT&T-to-AT&T calls. As long as I pay AT&T the agreed fee for the agreed upon service, I can use the use that service to contact whomever I see fit to contact. I can even call Verizon’s New Customer Service line and AT&T can’t block that call.
In the case of ISPs, you pay for the access and you can use that access to visit whatever site you see fit to visit whether it’s Free Republic or Netflix or Girls Gone Wild.
The problem isn’t with net neutrality itself; it’s that the FCC is trying to give themselves the authority to enforce it.