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

[Bob Kline]

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

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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, 2010 at 10:36:08AM -0500, Ben DeMott wrote:
> > John you're probably on the "red list" because of your signature.  ;)
>
> Meh.  I'm not worri#@(**#*@.LOST CARRIER
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