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Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nobody's-in-charge dept.

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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  1. Re:Oh goody by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 1, Troll

    Because most Comcast companies are organized to handle INTRAstate communications. They lay their wires to serve a town or county, but don't cross the state line except at the highest level.

    Bullshit. They have fiber crisscrossing state lines all over the country.