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FCC Cancels Free Internet Vote

Posted by Soulskill on from the pipe-dream-or-a-tube-dream? dept.

Earlier this year we discussed a proposal from the FCC which would have required winning bidders for a portion of the wireless spectrum to use some of that bandwidth for free internet access. A vote for the plan was scheduled for next Thursday, but now the FCC has canceled those plans, facing "opposition from several top officials, wireless providers, and even civil rights groups." The internet access would have had some level of filtering, to which privacy groups took exception, and the Bush administration objected to forcing requirements on the winners of the spectrum auction. Others simply asked the FCC not to take on such a major project as the transition between analog and digital television transmissions looms.

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  1. ha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first

    1. Re:ha! by stonedcat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry friend, your first post was canceled.

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    2. Re:ha! by stonedcat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Seriously who the fuck keep modding me offtopic?

      That's like 3 in under a week.... Get out of your mom's basement and stop being dick.
      I made a god damn joke. What part of that can't you possibly wrap your feeble brain around?

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      You can't take the sky from me.
    3. Re:ha! by mysidia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The topic is: FCC Cancels Free Internet Vote.

      Not: "first posts" on /., and not "Moderation on /."

      Instead of calling unfunny things jokes, and complaining about mods...

      How about complaining about the fact the FCC cancelled the Free Internet Vote

      Which essentially means they did exactly what the big wireless lobby (ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc), would have wanted them to do.

      Big greedy corporations couldn't be happier now.