It looks like the FCC has caved,
“The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that it would propose new rules that allow companies like Disney, Google or Netflix to pay Internet service providers.”
– WSJ article April 2014
Compare today’s statements to those made back in January and February, when the FCC was posturing like a fluffed up Tom Turkey for Net Neutrality.
“I am committed to maintaining our networks as engines for economic growth, test beds for innovative services and products, and channels for all forms of speech protected by the First Amendment”
– Tom Wheeler FCC chairman Jan 2014
“The FCC could use that broad authority to punish Internet providers that engage in flagrant net-neutrality violations, Wheeler suggested. The agency can bring actions with the goal of promoting broadband deployment, protecting consumers, or ensuring competition, for example.”
-Tom Wheeler Jan 2014
As I eluded to back then, I did not give their white night rhetoric much credence.
“The only hope in this case is for the FCC to step in and take back the Internet. Give it back to the peasants. However, I suspect their initial statements are just grandstanding politics. This is, after all, the same FCC that auctions off the airwaves to the highest bidder.”
– Art Reisman Feb 2014
It seems to me the FCC is now a puppet agency of regulation. How can you start by talking about regulating abuses threatening free access to the Internet, and then without blinking an eye, offer up a statement that Rich Guys can now pay for privileged access to the Internet ?
I don’t know whether to cry or be cynical at this point. Perhaps I should just go down to my nearest public library , and pay somebody to stock their shelves with promotional NetEqualizer Material?
“The court said that because the Internet is not considered a utility under federal law, it was not subject to that sort of regulation.”
Quotes Referenced from New York Times article FCC in shift backs fast lanes for Web Traffic
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April 24, 2014 — netequalizerIt looks like the FCC has caved,
“The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that it would propose new rules that allow companies like Disney, Google or Netflix to pay Internet service providers.”
– WSJ article April 2014
Compare today’s statements to those made back in January and February, when the FCC was posturing like a fluffed up Tom Turkey for Net Neutrality.
“I am committed to maintaining our networks as engines for economic growth, test beds for innovative services and products, and channels for all forms of speech protected by the First Amendment”
– Tom Wheeler FCC chairman Jan 2014
“The FCC could use that broad authority to punish Internet providers that engage in flagrant net-neutrality violations, Wheeler suggested. The agency can bring actions with the goal of promoting broadband deployment, protecting consumers, or ensuring competition, for example.”
-Tom Wheeler Jan 2014
As I eluded to back then, I did not give their white night rhetoric much credence.
“The only hope in this case is for the FCC to step in and take back the Internet. Give it back to the peasants. However, I suspect their initial statements are just grandstanding politics. This is, after all, the same FCC that auctions off the airwaves to the highest bidder.”
– Art Reisman Feb 2014
It seems to me the FCC is now a puppet agency of regulation. How can you start by talking about regulating abuses threatening free access to the Internet, and then without blinking an eye, offer up a statement that Rich Guys can now pay for privileged access to the Internet ?
I don’t know whether to cry or be cynical at this point. Perhaps I should just go down to my nearest public library , and pay somebody to stock their shelves with promotional NetEqualizer Material?
“The court said that because the Internet is not considered a utility under federal law, it was not subject to that sort of regulation.”
Quotes Referenced from New York Times article FCC in shift backs fast lanes for Web Traffic
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