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The Far-Reaching Effects of Comcast v FCC
eldavojohn writes "We've had a lot of discussion about what the overturning of FCC v Comcast means for net neutrality, but CommLawBlog argues that net-neut is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the effects of this ruling. In the National Broadband Plan, local TV broadcasters might be forced to give up their spectrum 'voluntarily' to be repurposed for broadband; this decision diminishes the FCC's authority to cut such deals. Another issue at stake is how this will affect the FCC's approval of Comcast's acquisition of NBC."
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As the submitter, let the record show that I am not the originator of that term. I wash my hands of that wordsmithing and relinquish all credit with coining that term to kdawson or wherever he found it.
Personally the shortened form of that term sounds a bit more like a collection tool employed at a veterinarian than an internet principle.
My work here is dung.
in the slashdot world, there's only one 'monopoly law' and it says 'companies are not allowed to do anything i don't like'.
Glad to see someone else has finally said that.
Companies do stupid things. And they screw alot of people. But they're not charities - they're out there to make money; some of which goes in YOUR pocket if you work for them, are a supplier to them, have a 401(k) or some other investment device that has stock in them, etc.
The broadband industry took off after the passage of the '96 Telecom Act. It came to a screeching halt after the first 5 years, when a Republican FCC and Congress gutted the Act and the FCC's regulatory powers.