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FCC Commissioner Warns of Destructive FCC Policies

Posted by michael on from the but-nobody-listens dept.

bugsy writes "Discrimination, Closed Networks and the Future of Cyberspace... Just over a month ago, Karl Auerbach asked, Is the Internet Dying?. Today, Commissioner Michael J. Copps, of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in a speech at the New America Foundation, is asking the very same question, 'Is The Internet As We Know It Dying?' and warning about FCC policies that damaged media now threatening the Internet. Coincidence?! Here is CircleID's report on these Remarks by Michael J. Copps, Federal Communications Commissioner: The Beginning of The End of the Internet? Discrimination, Closed Networks, and the Future of Cyberspace."

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  1. The reason it's dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is because the internet use *BSD.

  2. Re:LOL? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    LOL?

    It's disturbing that you find it funny when someone reminds you that there's a whole world out there beyond America. Your attitude is crassly narrowminded and epitomises every prejudiced thought the rest of us have about USA.
    Are you playing the part for irony? Do you want to make a mockery of your countrymen?

    JFYI very little about the good ole USA is actually 'bigger and better' than elsewhere, with perhaps the exceptions of your military power and the overwhelming stupidity of your government. As for your laws affecting the rest of the world it may shock you to learn that the the USA is fast becoming sidelined internationally across every field because the USAs absolute arrogance serves only to entrench its isolated position.

    Your 'control over the rest of the worlds use of the internet' is absolute rubbish, egocentric wishful thinking at best. There is a world out there you know nothing of. Intra-European traffic closely rivals US domestic traffic, and thats just another small part of the world. Its actually a rather big planet you know, remember Geography classes? Have you even any idea how much traffic flies across Russia and the far East? None of this is dependent on the USA in the least, and for the mostpart the rest of the wold could't care less what idiotic laws you strangle yourselves with inside the USA, it merely improves their competitive trade advantages that you choose to legislate yourselves into a corner to serve those powerful interests which you seem unable to control.

    I know your a troll and that I'm a sucker for feeding you , but guess what it makes me feel better :) so don't feel so smug. Drop the cowboy act and go read a book mate.