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

[Bob Kline]

For a price.......  :-(

   -- Bob


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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