Setback for net neutrality

[Tomo3000]

A US appeals court dealt a major setback on Tuesday to the efforts of US goverment regulators to force Internet service providers to treat all Web traffic equally.

Setback for net neutrality

 

[francoislr]

Well I say we all jump ship and dump Comcast's ass for better ISP's...oh wait, that's the yanks' problem....

 

[LordFoom]

 

[LazyLion]

Duh... if not the FCC... then who? The FDA? The FAA?

Stupid appeals court. The FCC IS the de facto American regulator for all things involving communications.

some money changed hands somewhere.

 

[icyrus]

Duh... if not the FCC... then who? The FDA? The FAA?

Stupid appeals court. The FCC IS the de facto American regulator for all things involving communications.

some money changed hands somewhere.

I am quite sure this will go on to a higher court.

 

[Hobbit]

Yzerfontein Chronicles: The FCC Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate the Internet–and Shouldn’t http://bit.ly/aCYEUD

 

[LazyLion]

Yzerfontein Chronicles: The FCC Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate the Internet–and Shouldn’t http://bit.ly/aCYEUD

He's got the whole thing back to front. The FCC is not trying to regulate the internet... but they are trying to stop one of their constituents... a Cable company (whom they do have jurisdiction over) from interfering with the free flow of internet traffic. And rightly so. Anybody who restricts the flow of internet traffic should be dealt with.

This particular act of regulation is a move to allow the internet to flow unrestricted.