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FCC Finally Submits Neutrality Rules
Cue the Verizon Legal Assault
As expected, the FCC yesterday delivered its net-neutrality rules to the Office of Management and Budget, officially setting the ball rolling on what is sure to be a hysterical series of new legal fights with broadband providers. After publishing an iestimate of the paperwork burden stemming from the rule in the Federal Register, there's now a 30 day comment period. Assuming the OMB approves the rules, they'd go into effect 60 days later. Granted, Verizon is going to sue to ensure that doesn't happen. Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell has been busy "helping" by making the media rounds yesterday, informing news viewers that the rules -- which while deeply flawed due to relentless lobbying were intended to protect Internet freedom from aggressive and anti-competitive companies -- are akin to an assault on Internet freedom.
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FFH5
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Tavistock NJ

FFH5

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McDowell & Copps speak their mind at least

At least FCC Commissioners McDowell(Repub) & Copps(Dem) speak their minds on the issues in front of the FCC. Genachowski, on the other hand, waffles on every issue, and waits for his masters at the White House staff to tell him what he thinks. In any case, it will be decided in the courts once again as the FCC acts on an authority it doesn't possess.

elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO

elios

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Re: McDowell & Copps speak their mind at least

then maybe it should be give the authority
seems like some thing the FCC should have a say on any way

battleop
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battleop

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We are the media, so trust us.

I have to love how the bloggers and members of the media can tell us how bad this is for us but they can't seem to cite any specific examples.
tennisman94
join:2010-02-18
Palm Harbor, FL

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Re: We are the media, so trust us.

Specific example: Metro PCS offers "unlimited mobile web" that includes unlimited access to metro PCS services, but restricts all others to a few hundred mb. Rogers in Canada just announced that their LTE plans would include unlimited social networking and a few GB of everything else. It can only go down hill from there. There's that slide from the DPI company that pretty wells sums up the fears. The Internet in the US will go back to the AOL walled garden days, only this time there will be no competitors because there is no lime sharing requirement for broadband.

capecoddah
join:2005-03-18
Yarmouth Port, MA

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to battleop
Are you saying it's a good thing?

battleop
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battleop

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Re: We are the media, so trust us.

I am saying how can someone decide on thier own if no examples are cited. Without reading the document that contains all the rules I can't say if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

Jackson R
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Jackson R

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Re: We are the media, so trust us.

I am saying how can someone decide on thier own if no examples are cited. Without reading the document that contains all the rules I can't say if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

While the media certainly has problems, you not bothering to read the rules (which were posted here and everywhere else since last December) would not appear to be the media's fault.
MrHappy316
Wish I had my tank
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Columbia, SC

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Powerless

Just like the FAA, the FCC has become useless also. Time to let all these corporations run a muck on their own and lets see what happens. We do not need any powerless oversight regulation. In fact aren't the politicos up in Washington figuring out how to decrease the deficit. Lets get rid of these two worthless organizations.

Somnambul33t
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Re: Powerless

said by MrHappy316:

Just like the FAA, the FCC has become useless also. Time to let all these corporations run a muck on their own and lets see what happens. We do not need any powerless oversight regulation. In fact aren't the politicos up in Washington figuring out how to decrease the deficit. Lets get rid of these two worthless organizations.

the less power the FCC, FAA, EPA, OSHA, NLRB, FDA, FTC, etc, etc, etc have, the more freedoms we keep. these organizations work largely outside of the Constitution and continue the cyclical power grabs that keep the individuals in the departments employed while removing more and more of our liberty.

the more they "do", the less free we are, period.