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Future of Net Neutrality may be Looking Up

posted by Blackmoore on Friday January 09 2015, @01:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the i-fcc-what-you-did-there dept.

rts008 writes:

In the recent news, it seems Net Neutrality may not be quite as doomed as earlier news.

The Federal Communications Commission’s proposal for open-Internet rules will align with a blueprint President Barack Obama offered last year for strong regulation to guarantee Web traffic is treated equally, the head of the agency said.

From the article:http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20150107-fcc-head-plans-to-heed-obama-blueprint-to-ban-web-fast-lanes.ece
“We’re both pulling in the same direction,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “We’re going to propose rules that say no blocking, no throttling, no paid prioritization.”

I guess we will see how this actually turns out after the vote on Feb. 26.

Also noted on Ars Technica - Title II for Internet providers is all but confirmed by FCC chairman

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Friday January 09 2015, @10:42AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday January 09 2015, @10:42AM (#133156) Homepage

    Sequels are never as good as the original. Well, apart from The Empire Strikes Back. And Spider-Man 2. And Wrath of Khan. But that's it.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 09 2015, @01:09PM

    by c0lo (156) on Friday January 09 2015, @01:09PM (#133174) Journal

    Well, apart from The Empire Strikes Back. And Spider-Man 2. And Wrath of Khan. But that's it.

    And Aliens (after the first Alien). Remarkable, only one (the 3rd) of the 4 in the franchise was crap.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @05:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @05:55PM (#133250)

      Wow, we finally found the person who thinks that Alien: Resurrection was good.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 09 2015, @09:22PM

        by c0lo (156) on Friday January 09 2015, @09:22PM (#133295) Journal

        Wow, we finally found the person who thinks that Alien: Resurrection was good.

        I said: the 3rd was crap. You deal only in binary?

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        • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Saturday January 10 2015, @12:59AM

          by GeminiDomino (661) on Saturday January 10 2015, @12:59AM (#133336)

          Alien: Resurrection was the 4th.

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          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday January 10 2015, @12:54PM

            by c0lo (156) on Saturday January 10 2015, @12:54PM (#133422) Journal

            Alien: Resurrection was the 4th.

            And it wasn't crap. Maybe it wasn't good, but neither the crap the 3rd was.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @03:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @03:06PM (#133201)

    Also: Terminator 2.

  • (Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Friday January 09 2015, @03:10PM

    by M. Baranczak (1673) on Friday January 09 2015, @03:10PM (#133204)

    I thought that Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance was better than the original Ghost Rider.

    Of course, the only way it could have been worse than the original is if Nicolas Cage came down off the screen and took a flaming shit on your head.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @04:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @04:17PM (#133220)

    Wrath of Khan is still the best in the series IMO.