TYT: Net Neutrality Wins Big & Why You Should Celebrate

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"Internet service providers like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile must now act in the "public interest" when providing a mobile connection to your home or phone, under rules approved Thursday by a divided Federal Communications Commission.

The plan, which puts the Internet in the same regulatory camp as the telephone and bans business practices that are "unjust or unreasonable," represents the biggest regulatory shakeup to the industry in almost two decades. The goal is to prevent providers from slowing or blocking web traffic, or creating paid “fast lanes” on the Internet, said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.

The 3-2 vote was expected to trigger industry lawsuits that could take several years to resolve. Still, consumer advocates cheered the regulations as a victory for smaller Internet-based companies, who had feared they would have to pay "tolls" to move their content."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur & John Iadarola break it down.

*Read more here: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/26/fcc-allows-city-owned-internet-providers-to-expand1.html

[GuntherGebelWilliams]

1. So this should re-establish the concept of a flat access charge to a public utility

Everyone gets the same speed connection at the same price without regard to tiers or usage.

That's the way it was with the phone system before deregulation, flat charge regardless of the number of calls made or time spent on the phone.

Now we need to apply the same regulations to other public utilities, especially electricity. One flat access fee without regard to usage.

It would only be fair.