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Justice Department Opposes Net Neutrality

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the weighing-in dept.

thornomad writes "I was saddened (though not surprised) to read that the Justice Department opposes net neutrality saying that it could 'hamper development of the internet.' While it may seem counter-intuitive to me, they argue that allowing ISPs to provide different levels of service/speed for different content will benefit consumers. They did promise to 'continue to monitor and enforce any anticompetitive conduct to ensure a competitive broadband marketplace' — not that anyone was worried about that."

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  1. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Eat shit in hell, karma whore.

  2. Re:Here's a better analogy by Skevin · · Score: 0, Troll

    > The US postal service, along with UPS, FedEx, and DHS...

    How does the Department of Homeland Security compete with the postal service, UPS, and Fed Ex?

    Solomon

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    "Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang
  3. what the internet needs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've said this many times but I'll repeat once again, this general purpose net connection stack tcp/ip has to go. In its place a large defined set of protocols can allow broadcast style networking for the internet savvy consumer, and if Microsoft had the lead in engineering this, you can be sure that most computers would be compatible, and Microsoft could also sell "Microsoft Gateway" products to let Apple participate.

    This set of protocols could allow trusted machines to receive properly licensed and authorized content but still filter out other less useful but more dangerous content/extentions like exe's, zips, tar.gz's, bz2, py, and iso's, and additionally any encrypted content, and the major webserver venders would have to outlaw application/octet mime types to regain control of the internet-turned-piracy haven that the thieves like warez groups and gnu have perverted, not to mention all the pornography and child molesting an open internet produces.

    Its time to make the net safe again for our families and businesses.