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What Will Come of the FCC Comcast Hearing

Posted by kdawson on from the rhymes-with-bombast dept.

The FCC held its hearing on network neutrality and Comcast today at Harvard. One commentator not afraid to predict what will come of it is O'Reilly's Andy Orem, who writes: "The mere announcement of an FCC hearing on 'broadband network management practices' was a notch in the gun of network neutrality advocates. Yet to a large extent, the panelists and speakers were like petitioners who are denied access to the king and can only bring their complaints to the gardeners who decorate the paths outside his gate. What we'll end up getting is a formal endorsement of non-discrimination as a policy that Internet providers must follow, leading to continual FCC review of current practices by telecom and cable companies."

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  1. I don't need notches in my gun by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Funny

    I need ammo!

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    1. Re:I don't need notches in my gun by ILuvRamen · · Score: 3, Funny

      I was gonna mention that too. It doesn't make sense. You fire guns and put notches in belts, right? I've never heard of a notch in a gun. Anyway, nothing's going to come out of this except maybe the FCC banning Comcast employees from using steroids.

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  2. Re:Comcast sucks by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure who Andy Oram is other than a blogger for Oreily, but his blaming of the dot com ecoms and the internet 2 are incredibly lame. He might as well have blamed Atilla the Hun, for all the relevance.

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  3. Well I think only an image can answer this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What Comcast truly thinks of its customers.

  4. notch in a gun? by rastoboy29 · · Score: 2, Funny

    WTF is a notch in a gun?  Is that a good or a bad thing?

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  5. Re:Comcast sucks by Stanislav_J · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody cares about matters of substance like what's being reported on the major news outlets.

    They report on matters of substance on the news channels? When did this start?

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