Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules

An anonymous reader writes: Republican resistance has ended for the FCC's plans to regulate the internet as a public utility. FCC commissioners are working out the final details, and they're expected to approve the plan themselves on Thursday. "The F.C.C. plan would let the agency regulate Internet access as if it is a public good.... In addition, it would ban the intentional slowing of the Internet for companies that refuse to pay broadband providers. The plan would also give the F.C.C. the power to step in if unforeseen impediments are thrown up by the handful of giant companies that run many of the country's broadband and wireless networks." Dave Steer of the Mozilla Foundation said, "We've been outspent, outlobbied. We were going up against the second-biggest corporate lobby in D.C., and it looks like we've won."

Comments

Re:Sounds good

[bmxeroh]

For some reason I had a chuckle at your last statement. At this point they literally are giving people turds. That turns out to be one of the most effective treatments for C. Diff, and I even seen a place in New England somewhere where they would pay you for taking a crap. Literally like a blood bank, but poop. How great a world we live in.

Re:Bring on the lausuits

[blackomegax]

I bet you think companies should be free to dump toxic waste into rivers and lakes, and that emissions controls on cars is 'treading on you'. Idiot.