arstechnica.com— With all the hoopla over the FCC's new net neutrality proposals, the question of whether the agency has the legal authority to act on this issue still looms.
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If there was more competition on the ISP market, the larger ISPs would buy the smaller ones. Business naturally moves towards mono or duopoly. The only thing that stands in the way are laws. Net neutrality is basically an anti-extortion law for the web. It keeps ISPs from charging websites for bandwidth AND tiered access to bandwidth. A law is necessary to keep ISPs charging a byte as a byte. Net neutrality is roughly what we have now and we need a law to keep it that way.
Except the only "people" getting mad about the FCC's supposed "regulating the internet" is the ISP's and cable operators and maybe the backwards ass people running FOX. The FCC has stated they're not changing anything, they're just making that fine line that ISPs love to cross more defined so they cant anymore.
That's exactly what people don't understand. They think something's changing, that the Obama administration is making a power grab for the internet, but the FCC just wants things to remain as they have been. It's where the lack of knowledge about internet technology steps in and destroys the discussion.
I blame Fox news and McCain. I've heard Fox mention, no less then 5 times, that net neutrality is bad because it allows government to control and regulate the Internet. I've had to explain about 50 times to people I know that Fox has it backwards. They're fighting for the same thing without even knowing what net neutrality means.
Closed AccountNov 2, 2009
OH NO. Skynet vs. Government conspiracy. Which has more power? Can't....Decide...Universe has reached singularity. Cannot compute.
Closed AccountNov 2, 2009
The f**k does that even mean?
slabdiggerNov 2, 2009
If there was more competition on the ISP market, the larger ISPs would buy the smaller ones. Business naturally moves towards mono or duopoly. The only thing that stands in the way are laws. Net neutrality is basically an anti-extortion law for the web. It keeps ISPs from charging websites for bandwidth AND tiered access to bandwidth. A law is necessary to keep ISPs charging a byte as a byte. Net neutrality is roughly what we have now and we need a law to keep it that way.
deathfiredNov 2, 2009
Except the only "people" getting mad about the FCC's supposed "regulating the internet" is the ISP's and cable operators and maybe the backwards ass people running FOX. The FCC has stated they're not changing anything, they're just making that fine line that ISPs love to cross more defined so they cant anymore.
phillaholicNov 2, 2009
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starlon2Nov 3, 2009
That's exactly what people don't understand. They think something's changing, that the Obama administration is making a power grab for the internet, but the FCC just wants things to remain as they have been. It's where the lack of knowledge about internet technology steps in and destroys the discussion.
deathfiredNov 3, 2009
I blame Fox news and McCain. I've heard Fox mention, no less then 5 times, that net neutrality is bad because it allows government to control and regulate the Internet. I've had to explain about 50 times to people I know that Fox has it backwards. They're fighting for the same thing without even knowing what net neutrality means.