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odylvoeJan 21, 2011
Verizon filed a lawsuit today questioning the FCC's authority?
anonadminJan 21, 2011
What we need is a crafty US District Attorney who will file a criminal suite ageist them.
It seems that
A) Common Carrier status does not apply because they do not want to be common carriers.
B) Because of A they can filter and discriminate packets as they see fit.
C) Because of A and with the Fact of B they can be held responsible for all traffic that remains on the Verison Network.
So, Nail them for Aiding and abiding Child Porn, fraud, etc.
Heck, if you can apply the Rico act you should be able to charge Verison with every criminal act committed by anyone on there network.
After the charges are filed, offer to drop the charges if they accept Common Carrier status. That will fix the "Net Neutrality issue."
dusanmalJan 21, 2011
Read the FCC regulation. Not only that it does not prevent packet discrimination but it opens door for Govt. to dictate what packets, devices and protocols are to be discriminated... more correctly BANNED.
Both businesses and Govt. must be banned from tampering with the Internet. Verizon lawsuit will at least get bigger danger (Govt. - which can arrest you and make laws) off our backs. Than it is up to people to demand Constitutional Amendment defining any Internet traffic as protected speech. Only such action can protect us from both evils. Only than YOU can sue anyone for meddling with your free speech packets and get them for violating your civil rights.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
clbwJan 21, 2011
Best solution by far.
laborerJan 22, 2011
Rarely a law goes into effect without first being OK'd by a corporate sponsor like Comcast, and certainly anything that would have to do with the internet.
The real law enforcers on the internet are the carries, as we saw when the US government went to the PROVIDERS to shut down Wikileaks, and Amazon exercised their power. Who is it that should have the power to cut off a voice on the internet, or ability to connect it?
Providers or the Current (Corporate Controlled) US Federal Government?
Neither.
Closed AccountJan 22, 2011
IT is so awesome seeing how horrible your life is.
laborerJan 22, 2011
Eat a gorilla dick, chode smoker.
qntmdnmcsJan 22, 2011
It really would be something if a real leader would stand against the corrupt flotsam of lobbyists and corporate party politicians. To me, it seems a glaring conflict of interest that Comcast is becoming a content owner as well, let alone a reality of themselves, Verizon, Amazon...etc or any other major provider having direct or indirect control of access to the world net, which is equivalent to information fascism.
It is a matter of civic personal responsibility as well. Americans need to see being a proper and earnest American civilian as a sort of job, a dedication to democracy. To truth. To freedom of information in this case.
Americans must see that the policing force of the internet is the gate to get there. Especially a monolithic, multi-national organization with a clear interest in forging consent, both in government and in society at large, for their own financial advantage.
laborerJan 22, 2011
"You're the man now, dog!"
hawkmoon78Jan 21, 2011
Net Neutrality: Things are working fine, but let's shoulder the risks of tampering with the biggest network system this planet has ever known because some multi-billion dollar service providers want to make more money.
hawkmoon78Jan 21, 2011
Let me clarify.
I was reffering to the debate of net neutrality, and instead of writing "Net Neutrality" I probably should have written "Net Neutrality Opponents:"
Closed AccountJan 22, 2011
If that is the case then why did you say "Things are working fine" since they ARE working fine...and there IS not government intervention? In other words, things are working fine WITHOUT net neutrality laws.
Your logic just backed up the opposing viewpoint.
rblancarteJan 22, 2011
I think that your post here highlights one of the main problems in the debate of Net-Neutrality: the definition and message end up getting distorted in most discussion and messages.
Maybe I am wrong, but I THINK you are pro-net-neutral. However, I had to read your post a few times to make sure.
The goal should be to have a clear and simple message. The big providers are the ones that want the message to be cloudy, because when it is, they are able to obfuscate their message and pass them as consumer-good when in fact they are anything but.
clbwJan 21, 2011
This is the beginning of the end to the internet. Greed has ruined just about everything else, and now it has turned it's sights to the internet. It won't stop until it has control.
gunwraithJan 21, 2011
Sad, but true. We can't even effectively fight it. Not with the political / legal environment we are in. Though I have no doubt that the IT community will find ways to circumvent the coming restrictions, those circumventions probably won't be accessible to the general public.
kwanijmlJan 22, 2011
Greed hasn't ruined everything . . . jealousy is responsible for 9/11 . . . . or was that wrath?
But you're right about most everything else. Statistics clearly show an increase in greed correlating with the meltdown of global financial markets, and decreased quality of the interwebs. Scientific research clearly shows that the causes of this sudden increase of greed over the last few decades are the Muslims and the illuminati.
I forgot where I read all that though, can you help me find a citation regarding the increased greed and it's causes?
sunnysn0wJan 21, 2011
The jurisdictional shopping will result in a lottery where one court or the other will be chosen, and once that court is selected, my sources say they will have a fairly clear sense of whether or not the network neutrality rules will stick. Stay tuned; the network neutrality debate will continue — this time in the courts
monirbictJan 22, 2011
Stay tuned; the network neutrality debate will continue — this time in the courts.
rizkidataJan 22, 2011
very nice post
rblancarteJan 22, 2011
Net Neutrality is quickly becoming one of the most important causes of our time. It is important that we understand what is being fought for and more importantly take the time to educate others to understand what is at stake.
The bulk of us that are here discussing this now understand what is going on and what the stance of the whole case is, however the bulk of the people don't understand it and need to be taught so that they can cut through the BS and know what the real message is.