[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - FCC to vote on net neutrality later today.

[Michael Mol]

Which is, of course, what each of the big-name ISPs have wanted to
do...turn their networks into the network-layer equivalent of web
portals. "Why go anywhere else? We have everything you need right here."

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 16:00 -0500, Clay Ashby wrote:
> We could start our own internet! :p
> 
> --Sent from my android.
> 
> > On Dec 21, 2010 2:13 PM, "Bob Kline" <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > The FCC has spoken.  On behalf of  
> > monopoly provider interests that is: 
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9201918/FCC_approves_compromise_Net_neutrality_rules?taxonomyId=70 
> > 
> > 
> > ** 
> > IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
> > in a historic vote Tuesday, approved network neutrality rules
> > prohibiting broadband providers from blocking customer access to
> > legal Web content, but many consumer groups decried the new
> > regulations as weak and full of loopholes.
> > 
> > The new rules provide fewer protections for mobile broadband
> > subscribers and may lead to a fractured Internet, critics said. The
> > new rules, a compromise championed by FCC Chairman Julius
> > Genachowski, would bar wireline-based broadband providers -- but not
> > mobile broadband providers -- from "unreasonable discrimination"
> > against Web traffic, prompting some consumer groups to call the
> > rules "fake" net neutrality.
> > 
> > Genachowski's plan, approved after more than seven years of debate
> > about whether net neutrality rules are needed, also contains several
> > loopholes for broadband providers, critics said, including an
> > exception for managed services separate from the public Internet.
> > 
> > 
> > ** 
> > 
> > 
> > Standard hack politics.  Clearly monopoly 
> > corporate entities run the Internet now, 
> > and I suspect the rubes will be  
> > squeezed ever harder.  Loopholes. 
> > Exceptions.   
> > 
> > 
> > The day mostly official marks the end of  
> > one Internet.  Everyone will now  
> > have to choose which Internet they 
> > want to be on, and have to figure  
> > out just what the monopoly players 
> > are likely to let through.  Comcast must 
> > be licking its chops about now, as leader 
> > of the forces tinkering with content and 
> > uses.  All hopefully without anyone noticing.   
> > Going forward, it appears it will have a largely  
> > free hand, not even try to hide its actions,  
> > and simply say it's all legal, and of course fair. 
> > 
> > 
> >     -- Bob 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:04 PM, John-Thomas Richards
> > <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 21...
> > 
> > 
> > 
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