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ISPs Blow Off Stanford Net Neutrality Hearing

Posted by kdawson on from the if-we-can't-stack-the-room-we're-not-playing dept.

eldavojohn writes "The FCC & Stanford hoped to host an on-campus debate over Net Neutrality and invited AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and Time Warner to take part. None of them showed up. Unfortunately, only one side of the issue was voiced despite Stanford being home to people opposing Net Neutrality. At the hearing, the FCC Commissioner stated: 'Consumers have come to expect and will continue to demand the open and neutral character that has always been the hallmark of the Internet. The Commission is currently examining several petitions and complaints according to which broadband providers have intentionally and secretly degraded applications in a way that undermines the open and interconnected character of the Internet.'"

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  1. Add your voice by oDDmON+oUT · · Score: 3, Informative

    Make your congresscritter work for you...or at least pretend to:

    http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/04/21/sen-kerry-i-need-your-feedback-on-net-neutrality/

    https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?alertId=103&pg=makeACall

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  2. FCC claims authority over internet by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 2, Informative
    From FCC's website: "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable."

    They don't claim light, but I guess fiber optic cables would loosely fall under "cable". Nor do they claim authority over intrastate traffic.

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  3. Re:Should I stop holding my breath? by DaedalusHKX · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only other solution would be for people to start something a little more rhizomatic in organizational structure, but with higher connectivity than a BBS. I wonder how well background grids are working nowadays. Everyone seems to be awaiting someone to deliver them... We already have the tools, we're not using them yet. Everyone keeps telling me what cannot be done. Goddamit people, I can paint the room walls in this here house with all of your "I can't do this, waaaaah!" crap, but I can't even fill a page with proposed solutions. Proposed solutions. Nevermind actually workable ones. Remember, you have to propose 10 or more solutions before you get to a workable one.

    I mean wow... despair city, the sky is falling, the storm trooper's are coming, ye gods someone put a blanket on Jabba's Hutt...

    All bitching and no ideas. Pitiful. I thought slashdot was supposed to be a "geek" forum. Seems more like a flamefest as of late.

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  4. Re:See, and there you go... by giafly · · Score: 2, Informative

    About the only right humans have in the so called "society" we live in, is the right to freely contract (read, associate and exchange value and come to agreements with others). Everything from sales, purchases, to marrying someone or letting a rapist have his way with you, it is ALL contracts.
    You're not a lawyer are you? There are literally hundreds of laws limiting the freedoms that you claim. For example you can't sell Brooklyn Bridge, purchase a slave, marry your sister, and have sex while queuing at LAX security, despite what you may see on daytime TV.
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