FCC Rules on Net Neutrality - BREAKING!!

[kpete]

F.C.C. Chairman Favors Penalty on Comcast

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 11, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that he would recommend that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet.

The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint that Comcast had blocked Internet traffic among users of a certain type of file-sharing software that allowed them to exchange large amounts of data.

“The commission has adopted a set of principles that protects consumers access to the Internet,” the commission chairman, Kevin J. Martin, told The Associated Press late Thursday. “We found that Comcast’s actions in this instance violated our principles.”

Mr. Martin said Comcast had arbitrarily blocked Internet access, regardless of the level of traffic, and failed to disclose to consumers that it was doing so.

A company spokeswoman, Sena Fitzmaurice, denied Thursday that Comcast blocked Internet content or services and that the “carefully limited measures that Comcast takes to manage traffic on its broadband network are a reasonable part” of the company’s strategy to ensure that all customers receive quality service.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/technology/11fcc.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
FCC Rules on Net Neutrality - BREAKING!!

[derby378]

1. Woo-hoo!

Comcast used to be our cable provider. I'm so glad they're being hammered on this.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Yay! That's great!

:toast:

[Jim__]

3. Great news! - n/t

[wtmusic]

4. Kevin's the tiebreaker

so looks like this rule will pass. Good news.

How will his Cheney and his Kevin's wife ever control the message now?

[IDemo]

5. Why does this sound like the precursor to "The Fair Use Act of 2008"?

Good news, to be sure, but I can easily see the industry lobbyists hand writing a bill to override the FCC's ruling.

But I'm sure the opposition party will do everything in their power to prevent its passage. :rofl:

[no limit]

6. Awesome. What Comcast was doing here was down right criminal

they were impersonating people to prevent you from receiving the information you needed. I hope the FCC cuts their nuts off over this.