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Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II
An anonymous reader writes: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has published an op-ed explaining how and why the FCC will "use its Title II authority to implement and enforce open internet protections." He says, "These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services. I propose to fully apply—for the first time ever—those bright-line rules to mobile broadband. My proposal assures the rights of internet users to go where they want, when they want, and the rights of innovators to introduce new products without asking anyone's permission. ... To preserve incentives for broadband operators to invest in their networks, my proposal will modernize Title II, tailoring it for the 21st century, in order to provide returns necessary to construct competitive networks. For example, there will be no rate regulation, no tariffs, no last-mile unbundling. Over the last 21 years, the wireless industry has invested almost $300 billion under similar rules, proving that modernized Title II regulation can encourage investment and competition."
The actual regulations will be, don't block lawful services - but mandatory blocking of anything on the government blacklist.
Welcome our new government sanctioned internet content, now 2x more "Free" than the previous free where nothing was actually blocked!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Great, now they'll have an easier path to authority to censor content & discourage competition. WHOO HOO!
NOT...
In general this will not be good for you...
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but now I understand it, I am opposed to it. I would rather the free market, as messy as it is, and as evil as some companies are, rather than the government control it. The government ruins everything it touches, and this will be no exception.