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

[Bob Kline]

There was actually talk about this
within the group - maybe a year ago.
Something like using radio relay.

It might come to that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber>Done by the city of Lafayette, LA, it
is
perhaps the best Internet system on the
planet. Fiber to the home, full duplex
50 Mbps service for $58 a month.

Yes, Verizon and AT&T sued to block
its construction.  But it was built, and
can service as model to any properly
managed city.

Now lets see what Comcast does to us.
Especially if it acquires NBC.

     -- Bob


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Clay Ashby <kingpoiuy at gmail.com> 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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