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FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations

Posted by timothy on from the well-what-else-would-they-do? dept.

A petition submitted to the FCC by several of the players (including AT&T, CenturyLink, and USTelecom) who would be most affected by the agency's recently asserted Internet regulatory powers has been rejected by the agency's leadership. The Internet providers, along with the CTIA trade association, asserted that the FCC's Open Internet order is aganst the public interest. Per The Verge, the Commission last Friday "denied the petition, issuing an order that states its classification of broadband internet as a telecommunications service "falls well within the Commission's statutory authority, is consistent with Supreme Court precedent, and fully complies with the Administrative Procedure Act."

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  1. Re:how long until the internet dies? by Cafe+Alpha · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The right wing "news sources" and blogs have been saying that Obama is trying to take away our freedom through net neutrality all along.

    Seriously.

    And in the disqus comments and the like you can read thousands and thousands of hysterical old people screaming and crying about it ...

    It's like that on everything. The hysteria of confused old people is a commodity bought and sold by corporations.

  2. Re: how long until the internet dies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is regulation in favor of the people. We don't see a lot of that and so it's a bit of a surprise.

    Naturally the right wing opposes it. It hurts the 1 percent AND demonstrates proper use of government regulation. Those are two things they can't stand the very thought of.

  3. Re: how long until the internet dies? by sls1j · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not all Republicans. This one has been sick at the corporate welfare pushed by my own party. I've been cheering the FCC director and marveling at his backbone to push this non-partisan for the people measure through. I starting to think he'd be a good candidate for president someone that would serve the people.

    I wish that the American people would wake up and stop treating politics as a sporting event and villianize everything from the other party. I wish we would start to seek and promote those that actually seek a better USA and that understand the principles that founded this country in the first place. These kind of individual are members of both the major parties and many of the minor parties. As the american people participate early we can avoid having to vote for the lessor evil and instead start voting for the greater good. If you only start to think about who to vote for in the general election it is too late.