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FCC Initiates Net Neutrality Fight

Oct 22, 2009, 1:24 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Today the Federal Communications Commission took the first steps towards creating a national net neutrality policy. The FCC voted to move forward with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's proposal, which would prevent network operators (wireless and wireline) from favoring certain types of Internet traffic over others. The FCC's three Democratic members voted in favor of the proposal, but the Republican members only agreed that the debate needs to continue. Genachowski has published a draft of his policy, and is allowing three months for public comment on it. Network providers disagree with some of the proposed policies, which they feel will interfere with their ability to safely and appropriately manage the networks they have spent money to create. The FCC has said that it wants the entire process of creating a national broadband policy to be as open and transparent as possible. Comments on the proposal are due Jan. 14, 2010, with replies to comments due March 5, 2010.

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dan327

Nov 1, 2009, 10:58 AM

For idiots that support net neutrality

Translation guide:

For the purposes of this post...

Idiots means any deranged lunatic that supports the statist ( AKA liberal, progressive, socialist ) agenda.

First of all, WHAT WEB SITES ARE YOU MORONS BEING BLOCKED FROM!!?? IF YOU CAN'T GET TO A WEB SITE CAUSE YOU ARE ON A PDA OR iPHONE IT'S A TECHNICAL ISSUE LIKE FLASH SUPPORT YOU DIM WITS!!! NO ONE IS PREVENTING ANY CAPABLE DEVICE FROM GOING TO AN INTERNET ADDRESS!!!

Were you prevented from going to the Daily Kook or other loon sites today?

Beware a LIB with a catch phrase it always means the opposite!

Green = Red.

Smart = Dumb.

Fairness Doctrine = Censorship and unfair bureaucracy.

Open = Closed.

Social Security = Bankrupt bureaucracy with lots of inse...
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ItsSprintnotwalk

Oct 22, 2009, 2:33 PM

Transparent...

😲 I doubt it this adminastration lives by doing things behind the scenes as they try to socialize our country..

👀 Good Luck keeping them from taxing the internet//

phone12345

So you don't think that a verizon customer should be able to access any site they want on their PDA. You agree that Verizon should be able to criple their internet access??? 🤭

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WiWavelength

ItsSprintnotwalk said:
😲 I doubt it this adminastration lives by doing things behind the scenes as they try to socialize our country..

👀 Good Luck keeping them from taxing the internet//

The Internet ...
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phone12345

You listen to Glen Beck don't you!! 😁

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japhy

The Internet is already extensively taxed - through taxes levied against ISPs (they are, after all, businesses), which are passed down to the customer along with inflated and artificial fees with which the ISPs seek to offset their own tax losses. The...
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