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

[SensitiveMale]

Actually I do know what they are about to do. The FCC released a 4 page summary of what the regulations were going to accomplish earlier this month. Just because you have no idea what's going on doesn't mean the rest of us are as uninformed.

http://transition.fcc.gov/Dail...

The devil is in the details.

Remember the summary "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan."?

Re:Bring on the lausuits

[Archangel Michael]

You're close. This is nothing more than the camel's nose. Government now has a "right" to do whatever it wants/needs to the internet, and we won't have a say in it.

Political Speech is already on the chopping block, but since it is the "evil Republicans", and not the "sweet innocent Democrats" that are pushing it, left wingers are completely silent.

Short sightedness is liberal kryptonite.