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To: Straight Vermonter
I think I've read maybe one story on FR regarding the Verizon vs. FCC ruling this week that's expected to bring turmoil to streaming content services like HBO-GO, and so on.

It's like FR isn't even paying attention to 'Net Neutrality'.

7 posted on 01/18/2014 4:10:19 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid
It's like FR isn't even paying attention to 'Net Neutrality'.

I've thought the same thing. Apparently the FCC has the authority to fix this problem (by reclassifying ISPs) but they merely lack the political will to do so.

“Reclassification” means that the FCC can put AT&T and Comcast in the same regulatory bucket that landline and mobile phone companies have been in since 1910, that dial-up internet access is in, and that DSL Internet access was in until 2005. This bucket is Title II of the Communications Act, a legal category that has forbidden blocking of phone calls and discriminating amongst users for a century. By “classifying” the carriers as subject to Title II for internet access, the FCC would then have clear jurisdiction to stop blocking and nondiscrimination — instead of merely requiring cable and phone companies to disclose when they are doing so. The FCC has the power to do this. Source
This is the kind of issue that GOP congressional candidates should jump on to attract younger voters.
8 posted on 01/18/2014 8:30:00 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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