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FCC Chairman Will Reportedly Revise Broadband Proposal
An anonymous reader writes "FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has said he will revise proposed rules for regulating broadband Internet, and is offering assurances that the agency won't allow companies to segregate Web traffic into fast and slow lanes. From the article: 'The new language by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to be circulated as early as Monday is an attempt to address criticism of his proposal unveiled last month that would ban broadband providers from blocking or slowing down websites but allow them to strike deals in which content companies could pay them for faster delivery of Web content to customers.'"
Maybe I'm a moron, but what about prioritizing by type of content, rather than where the content comes from? Torrents and videos could have high latency without people caring too much, but with online gaming you want the lowest latency you can get. So instead of making it about specific companies, make it about the type of content. Although, then downloads for games would have to be labeled separately from actual gaming traffic to keep things from getting overly expensive.