Court Upholds Internet Deregulation

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 19, 2007 @08:03AM from the getting-dicey-out-here dept.

Internet Voting writes "Big telecom companies seem to have won big with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding FCC's ruling deregulating the Internet. Opponents argued that telecoms could now deny third parties access to their telecommunications lines and eliminating competition. From the story: "In its September 2005 ruling, the FCC relieved telephone companies of decades-old regulations that required them to grant competing Internet service providers 'nondiscriminatory' access to their wirelines in order to reach consumers.""

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This is a good thing by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-19 08:25 · Score: 0, Troll

I support this ruling fully. It will enable the government and it's corporate partners to enhance their power and to socialize the internet. In a nation that is founded on socialism and tyranny (the two are inseparable) there must be full control of all media and this ruling will help pave the way for that to happen. Only the elites that run the government have rights and it is time for you people to realize this. You are here to serve the state so quit whining.