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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
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 09 2015, @03:19PM
My goals when it comes to ISPs are basically:
1. Net neutrality is preserved.
2. The ISP is not allowed to wiretap, store, and/or alter what's traversing their network without a specific court order describing exactly who's being tapped for what.
3. The prices get back into line with what the rest of the world pays for the same service.
4. The service operates with high guaranteed uptime (no guaranteed uptime=no uptime sooner or later). That also means making efforts to expand bandwidth as bandwidth gets saturated in a particular geographic area.
I don't have strong opinions on whether that happens via some kind of government regulation, a publicly run ISP, or a free market. I don't care if the organization doing this is large, small, public, or private. Those are the standards I'm going to use to judge the success or failure of communications policies, and focusing more on those goals rather than the specific mechanisms used to get there will tend to lead to better results.
Unfortunately, right now most politicians judge the success or failure of communications policies based on the profits of Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Google, and a few other very large corporations that just so happen to be major campaign donors to both major parties.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.