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FCC Chief Clarifies His Statement On Comcast

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the what-I-really-meant-was dept.

netizenz writes "At a press conference yesterday, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has clarified his earlier statements on Comcast. According to the CircleID post by Richard Bennett, he 'will not seek a fine against Comcast. Rather, he will simply impose some reporting requirements on them and order them to do what they've already started to do, phase out the current traffic management system in favor of an application-agnostic one. This is second story in a row where the AP have got the facts backwards. Hence, both sides may now officially claim victory.'"

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  1. By "clarification" he means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Retroactively revising his position on order of the big bosses, since they didn't like his first one.

    1. Re:By "clarification" he means by quonsar · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...they dropped off the check last evening.

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      Sacred cows make the best burgers.

  2. Traffic shaping is ok by kurt555gs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As long as it is "application agnostic". Comcast or for that matter most large ISP's think the internet is theirs to do with what they want. Laws? phooey, we own it, we will decided who its used in our interest.

    Never mind all our wires run on public right of ways.

    this is truely getting out of hand.

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    1. Re:Traffic shaping is ok by McGuirk · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "So if you drive your car on a public road the car becomes public property?" No, but try putting up road blocks, and forcing people who drive certain kinds of vehicles to drive in lanes with much lower speed limits. You can't do things like that on a public roadway unless you're the government...or a contracted worker or prison inmate.

  3. Looks like Corporate America had a talk with him. by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Act tough against Corporations and some one higher up says "look dick bag, you're only here cause i put you here, so dont get fucking cocky you little peice of shit... You will do nothing."

    So now comcast gets a blow job from the FCC rather than a strict ruling from our government.

    Lovely. Did you really expect anything to ever happen to comcast? You do realize that these companies get away with murder... and you dont.