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FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted
ArmyofGnomes writes "FCC chairman Julius Genachowski delivered Monday on President Obama's promise to back 'net neutrality' — but he went much further than merely seeking to expand rules that prohibit ISPs from filtering or blocking net traffic by proposing that they cover all broadband connections, including data connections for smartphones. Genachowski stated: 'I understand the Internet is a dynamic network and that technology continues to grow and evolve. I recognize that if we were to create unduly detailed rules that attempted to address every possible assault on openness, such rules would become outdated quickly. But the fact that the Internet is evolving rapidly does not mean we can, or should, abandon the underlying values fostered by an open network, or the important goal of setting rules of the road to protect the free and open Internet. ... In view of these challenges and opportunities, and because it is vital that the Internet continue to be an engine of innovation, economic growth, competition and democratic engagement, I believe the FCC must be a smart cop on the beat preserving a free and open Internet.'"
Congress is owned by the health insurance companies, the financial companies, the military contracting companies, and the big agribusiness companies. The telcos are at most a minority owner with about 5% control.
Couldn't you just have boiled that all down to "Congress is owned by the Jews" and saved yourself all those keystrokes? ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Just what we need; regulations from Congress to solve problems that don't exist yet.
I say yet because if history is any indicator, these regulations will cause the problems, which Congress will then solve by adding more regulations and set up a new Department to create even more regulations in the Federal Register.
No matter how benign these regulations seem they set the precedent for more regulations which will serve large corporations at the behest of our freedoms and their competition. This is how our government works in practice. The only way to ensure a free and open internet is to demand it from the corporations directly, which has so far worked.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
Net-Neutrality, that sounds like a swell idea by golly gee whiz!
I like being Neutral and if the FCC is behind it then I am all for it. I trust the government to do the right thing because they are all saints no matter what party is in power.
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
He's obviously a republican, from his "less regulation" attitude. You expect them to know words from the SAT?
In case you had not noticed: the whinny, leftist, idiot, moron, democrat, romper room, who claim 'Nazi!', 'what labor day ralies?', 'But ACORN is not made of of criminals!, ----- These greedy, liars and cheats ARE in charge!
THEY NEED TO BE IMPEACHED REMOVED!
If this blatantly unconstitutional proposal is enacted into law, your ISP bill is going up. You can't obliterate all principles of traffic management without requiring massive expenditures in expanding the existing infrastructure, which will no longer be able to prioritize traffic. This will force build-outs that are designed to carry close to expected worse-case scenarios. The initial effect of this, of course, would be progressively worse traffic slowdowns, the mid-term to long-term effect would be unnecessary traffic slowdowns, and the omnipresent effect would be paying more for your ISP than you would otherwise be willing to.
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