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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon’t Be Fooled: FCC Chairman Appears Determined to F Up the Internet
via truthdig:
Under immense pressure from corporations and consumers alike, former cable-industry-lobbyist-turned-FCC-chair Tom Wheeler will reportedly revise his scheme to create an Internet toll road, but early reports suggest the new version will make no difference.
Heres the back story: Net neutrality (aka the Internet as we know it) is the principle that the Internet is open and indiscriminate. Your Web browser can access Truthdig just as easily as Fox News or Wikipedia. Some Internet Service Providers desperately want to boost their profits by charging Internet companies such as Netflix a toll to have speedy access to their customers. Netflix already pays such a toll to Comcast, for example. ISPs are able to do this because the FCC refuses to treat broadband Internet as a common carrier utility. Instead, the regulator treats ISPs like AOL or Yahoo. Former FCC chair Julius Genachowski ushered in a compromised effort to maintain net neutrality on land-based networks (not cellular networks) called the Open Internet Order. That rule was overturned by a court, with the presiding judge strongly suggesting that the FCC reclassify broadband as a utility.
Instead, Wheeler, who formerly ran both the cable and wireless trade organizations, has offered a new take on the Open Internet Order that basically gives the Comcasts of the world everything they want. Under the guidelines as theyve been reported, ISPs can charge fees for improved access to their customers.
That has upset many, including Sen. Al Franken, not to mention more than 100 prominent Internet companies and two of the five FCC commissioners, by Information Weeks count. The FCC has asked the public to write, not call, presumably because the phone wont stop ringing. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/dont_be_fooled_fcc_chairman_appears_determined_to_f_up_the_internet_2014051
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Don’t Be Fooled: FCC Chairman Appears Determined to F Up the Internet (Original Post)
marmar
May 2014
OP
The judge that overturned the original FCC net neutrality even told them how to fix it
DJ13
May 2014
#1
It's sooo fricking maddening. He thinks his double speak will convince us otherwise...
myrna minx
May 2014
#5
DJ13
(23,671 posts)1. The judge that overturned the original FCC net neutrality even told them how to fix it
Former FCC chair Julius Genachowski ushered in a compromised effort to maintain net neutrality on land-based networks (not cellular networks) called the Open Internet Order. That rule was overturned by a court, with the presiding judge strongly suggesting that the FCC reclassify broadband as a utility.
And they still wont get it right.
Unfreakin believable.
marmar
(77,091 posts)3. I know. Makes you want to scream. ..... Or grab a pitchfork.
Response to marmar (Original post)
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Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)4. Recommend. grrr. n/t
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)5. It's sooo fricking maddening. He thinks his double speak will convince us otherwise...