Posted on 02/05/2015 6:20:01 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
On Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced plans to regulate the Internet like a utility and impose the "strongest open Internet protections ever proposed by the FCC."
Under his plan, the commission will prevent "paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services."
"All this can be accomplished," he argues in an essay published by Wired , "while encouraging investment in broadband networks."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Notice the word “lawful” !!!
Are they going to examine every packet for lawfullness ?
Now that should turn out just swell since they’ve learned their lessons from past mistakes about what not to do. Hello? Hello!.............chirp, chirp, chirp.
FR packets will be held indefinitely for questioning.
All freedom must be transported in bottles of 3 oz or less.
Well...that means we’ve seen the best of the internet....it’s all downhill from here. Nice knowing ya’ll
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is strolling across the line of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. May he be indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced for the same.
WOOO! Awesome, just got me a new tagline! First time in years!
It couldn’t last. It is already considerably less free than it was 10 or 15 years ago.
Wow thanks
As a nearly 50 year employee of the Fone phactory, I can attest to the chains of the FCC. The Bell System held them in check by just telling them NO. Then divide and conquer and the Bell System was gone. The Internet is a whole different animal/technology and it scares the heck out of the Progressives. It was fun while it lasted.
Why in no time at all we’ll have the same “freedoms”
they have on the Chinese internet...
But part of me thinks the crafty techies will figure out a workaround...or we’ll go back to CB Radios
Nothing stops the development of a parallel TCP-IP private network that isn’t “The Internet”. I could certain;y see comcast or cox having such an external network as a supplemental offering with faster speeds than the Internet will provide Netflix.
It will become heavily encrypted and the next move will be if you are caught using an encryption method the FCC can’t easily decipher they will shut off your access.
Don’t worry I’m sure the new GOP controlled House and Senate will stop this. (sarc)
How so?
The penetration of US intelligence agencies was not quite as deep then. It is obvious to me that the internet is used to manipulate public opinion (many cases to support this claim, though physical evidence is difficult to obtain), and especially opinion among more “radical” political groups on the right and left. The infrastructure exists to support a nasty authoritarian regime.
Is the Internet still the “Wild West”, or a Disneyfied version?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102397735
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