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Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback
RingDev writes "The US Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Comcast today, stating that the FCC lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks."
all your tubez are belong to comcast...
but my packets were delayed...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Yeah, sorry I double tapped the 'e'. I have a sensitive keyboard. I'll go back to feeling inferior to you now, if that is acceptable.
It's not as if handing over the reigns to corporate interests ruined radio - so why would it ruin the Internet?
Currently listening to: Ke$ha - Tik Tok
or else!
More like the companies had their golden goose and wanted to sell the eggs to people who could afford them, but the government stepped in to kill the goose and distribute the gold more fairly.
No, I think it's more like the golden goose laid a platinum egg, and nobody could figure out how the golden goose's body was able to fabricate platinum from a diet of grass and insects - and then people started wondering how it could fabricate gold, for that matter, but meanwhile the goose was walking across the road, and stopping traffic, because nobody wanted to run it over, but they didn't exactly want to sit there all day, either, so they beeped at it but it mostly ignored them and just hissed at them a little...
Bow-ties are cool.
> Today, April 6th 2009, we can ...
And, clearly, it's needed to keep our clocks current.
Oh no, not again.