AT&T's Net Neutrality Doublethink

GMGruman writes "George Orwell would be proud of AT&T, as Bill Snyder explains in this blog post, for its new ads saying it supports Net neutrality when in fact it is working actively to scuttle proposed FCC rules that would clearly ban discriminatory practices against different types of data, such as video streaming or VoIP. It's also trying to get government subsidies to build a substandard broadband network for the under-served areas of the US. If it and its carrier partners win, 'Internet freedom' will mean freedom for carriers to be the 21st century's robber barons."

Comments

Under-served

[elrous0]

With the AT&T network, "under-served areas of the US" includes pretty much the entire country, including isolated rural towns like San Francisco.

"Net Neutrality Doublethink"?

[qzak]

More like "Net Neutrality Doublespeak", no?

Re:lies, damn lies, and advertising

[kenh]

Where would we store all the convicted politicians once your proposed law goes into effect?

Open Source Telco

[smitty777]

I've got it! We can create our own open source network lines. Each person will go to the hardware store and buy 10 meters of fibreoptic cable and dig a trench in front of their house. We can take our spare parts and combine them and make servers! Power to the people! Stickin it to the man! Yeah!!!