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."

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This is terrible news...but here's the doc

[elohel]

But what should we expect when politicians are bought and sold and when an actual value can be placed on the price of integrity and transparency. I could rant, but what good would it do? Here's a link to the official ruling from wired.com: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/04/comcastdecision.pdf

Re:Oh goody

[Lunix Nutcase]

From the FCC's charter:

For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio

Seems pretty clear that this falls squarely within it's right to regulate. Unless you can explain how the Internet isn't "communication by wire or radio".

Re:Login page, NOT the opinion

[TubeSteak]

$.08 per page. That's only really worthy of +4 informative if parent also post's his/her PACER login details.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/29489974/Full-Text-Comcast-vs-FCC-Federal-Court-Ruling
Found Here by using the googles

Any court decision worth reading will almost always be hosted somewhere else within hours of showing up on PACER.

The ruling was correct, now lets change the law

[mykos]

Under current law, the FCC had no authority to do what they did. The idea was right, the execution was wrong. We need to have clear laws about net neutrality so that the government DOES have the authority to tell ISPs when they are hurting consumers.

From the FCC's Statement following the ruling

[TechForensics]

"Today's court decision invalidated the prior commission's approach to preserving an open Internet," the agency's statement said. "But the court in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet; nor did it close the door to other methods for achieving this important end."

Seems like the Court said you can't do it this way but you can try others. That doesn't sound so grim as originally sounded.