Posted on 05/10/2010 9:55:39 AM PDT by Nachum
So is the Federal Communications Commission really going to place common carrier restrictions on Internet service providers? Well, yes, but not too many of them.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Friday said he would move to reclassify ISPs as common carriers, while at the same time insisting that ISPs be exempt from the vast majority of regulations in the current common carrier rules.
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The government exists to expand its power and control.
Open the door to one regulation and we allow future regulations by default. Leave the Internet alone, dammit!
“So is the Federal Communications Commission really going to place common carrier restrictions on Internet service providers? Well, yes, but not too many of them.”
Kind of like State’s Rights?
Not at first.
Would you want Soros to control your internet usage?
I don’t want ANYONE controlling my Internet usage.
Unless you start your own ISP, that’s a feat of impossibility.
Your two remaining choices are to pay for service from a provider or you can wait for government nationalization.
As conservatives we say a lot of un-neutral things.
And that’s why the FCC is making this ruling.
The way the Internet used to work is all the isp’s had to carry everybody else’s traffic. So if freerepublic.com was hosted on Verizon’s ISP, then you would still be able to get to it from AT&T’s ISP. At the same level of service as if you were on Verizon’s ISP.
What the ISP’s want to do is “Hey Jim, freerepublic.com has a lot of users on AT&T, if you want them to get access to your site you’ll have to pay us an addition fee per month.” So the FCC is trying to stop Verizon from turning the internet back to the CompuServe, Prodigy and AOL days.
I guess I’m not reading this the same way. I’m reading this as regulation of business. You both have added an extra element to the mix that I’ll have to think about.
The fact that is the FCC’s plan tells me all I need to know.
What exactly is wrong with the Internet, that now has to be fixed ?
Where is there a problem with ‘neutrality’ ?
-——————I’m reading this as regulation of business.——————
You’re reading this as regulation of business.
I’m reading this as “regulation” of business.
I’m sure you can see the difference. It doesn’t matter what we hear them say, we have to understand what they really mean. What they really mean isn’t that they want to regulate business, they want to “regulate” business.
They’ve already done “regulations” like this via things like the fairness doctrine.
I’m not interested in being silenced. I say a lot of un-neutral things.
-————Where is there a problem with ‘neutrality’ ?-—————
I say a lot of un-neutral things.
How about you?
So which carrier is willing to fight them on this?
Won’t be Comcast. They are firmly in the pocket of Ed Rendell and the Philly Democrat machine.
That’s kinda where I’m coming from on this too. Anything out of the government is going to raise red flags. If the businesses want to sign a non-compete pact or something of the like, that’s for them to decide. Let the market dictate stuff like this. If AT&T is offering higher speeds to certain sites, then let them say so and let the market decide if it’s worthwhile. On the other hand, if Verizon or Time Warner throttled access to sites like FR or Drudge, then it’s the consumer’s choice to go to AT&T or Comcast or any of the myriad ISPs out there.
A good example is usenet. A lot of providers shutdown their NNTP servers due to the massive size and cost of maintaining them. They’ve “outsourced” NNTP services to various vendors. It used to be that NNTP was the realm of perverts, but a lot of vendors cut out the binaries housing the objectionable content and many folks went to other ISPs or private NNTP providers. That was their choice.
So.... it’s about ‘control’ and not about ‘neutrality’ ?
BS.
Comcast DID fight against this.
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