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LawnLover (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 07:49 PM Original message |
Someone please explain -- why is the FCC decision about Net Neutrality bad? |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. First and foremost, the FCC has no right to make this decision. |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 07:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Why don't they |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Because the law that gives them that power, did not give them the power to become |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 08:33 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. newspapers are a form of communications. the us mail is a form of communications |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 07:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. that's where you're wrong. it's one of the things they do have authority on. |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. That's not what the courts have ruled. |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Courts have been wrong before and they are wrong now. |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:45 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. You are correct about one thing: the courts have been wrong before, e.g., Kelo. |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 04:50 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. Reading the brief, the court said that the FCC had not proven it's authority |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:49 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. The struggle against tyranny is unending. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:58 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. +1 nt |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 05:09 AM Response to Reply #22 |
34. They have now. authority. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 08:37 AM Response to Reply #3 |
31. can you cite to the provision of the Communications Act that gives them authority? |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 07:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. . |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Does the DOD have the right? |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. No and Yes. |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 04:51 AM Response to Reply #13 |
23. Very helpful. And useless. |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:26 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Well, since the DOD does not regulate anything, I agree. |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:13 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. DARPA created ARPANET. It used a different protocol. It worked very differently. |
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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
4. Perhaps this link may help. |
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LawnLover (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Not much info here. |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
7. Too many loopholes, backdoors, and wink-wink-nudge-nudge deals with the telecoms |
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LawnLover (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Yeah, this is what I keep hearing, but |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. I'm not that upset about it. |
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Dokkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
14. my problem is that |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. It keeps it well oiled. |
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Dokkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 06:32 AM Response to Reply #17 |
25. I sort of agree |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 01:28 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. what has kept it well oiled is many providers and ways to get service. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
15. the fact that both sides hate it doesn't make it a good ruling |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
18. Because Mitch McConnell and Kay Bailey Hutchinson said so |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
19. Well, for one, the CNN summary is flat out wrong. |
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MODem75 (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
21. It is not bad. Without Net Neutrality the internet will slide into a series of fiefdoms. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 05:08 AM Response to Original message |
24. It isn't a bad thing. A small group of people continue to pretend that "not good enough" regulation |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
32. Power grab by FCC - who gave them that power? |
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