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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: 2) by fnj on Saturday January 10 2015, @02:43PM

    by fnj (1654) on Saturday January 10 2015, @02:43PM (#133441)

    Mommy, mommy, the bad man threw me an ad hominem! Do you have the faintest idea what an ad hominem attack is? An ad hominem would be if I accused you of being a paid apologist or a cable insider. But I didn't do that.

    Thank you for at least going to the trouble of explaining that what you are really afraid of is big bad regulation, even though couched in very nebulous terms. I know all about forebearance. This [wetmachine.com] pretty well annihilates the mantra of the anti-net-neutrality crowd.

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  • (Score: 1) by goody on Saturday January 10 2015, @11:19PM

    by goody (2135) on Saturday January 10 2015, @11:19PM (#133568)

    Well, you basically accused me of being a cable company shill or something to that effect. But, anyway. I'm not anti-net neutrality. I think I've stated that once or twice. I want net neutrality but without the telco regulation baggage of Title II. Understand?

    Thanks for the link, but have you found any credible evidence that the FCC is actually going to instate forbearance to Title II if they apply it to ISPs? I haven't seen any yet.