The FCC has spoken. On behalf of <div>monopoly provider interests that is:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9201918/FCC_approves_compromise_Net_neutrality_rules?taxonomyId=70" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9201918/FCC_approves_compromise_Net_neutrality_rules?taxonomyId=70</a><br>
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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.</p>
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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.</p>
</div><div>**</div><div><br></div><div>Standard hack politics. Clearly monopoly</div><div>corporate entities run the Internet now,</div><div>and I suspect the rubes will be </div><div>squeezed ever harder. Loopholes.</div>
<div>Exceptions. </div><div><br></div><div>The day mostly official marks the end of </div><div>one Internet. Everyone will now </div><div>have to choose which Internet they</div><div>want to be on, and have to figure </div>
<div>out just what the monopoly players</div><div>are likely to let through. Comcast must</div><div>be licking its chops about now, as leader</div><div>of the forces tinkering with content and</div><div>uses. All hopefully without anyone noticing. </div>
<div>Going forward, it appears it will have a largely </div><div>free hand, not even try to hide its actions, </div><div>and simply say it's all legal, and of course fair.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:04 PM, John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:36:08AM -0500, Ben DeMott wrote:<br>
> John you're probably on the "red list" because of your signature. ;)<br>
<br>
</div>Meh. I'm not worri#@(**#*@.LOST CARRIER<br>
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