Who Wins and Loses Under the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules

gigaom.com — With its rules on network neutrality, the FCC has protected the current state of the Internet, left the future of the web unregulated and punted on most of the challenging issues that lay before it -- from requiring wireless networks to be open to allowing managed services. Dec 30, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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njdoo7 Dec 30, 2010

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Does the question even need to be asked?

Corporations own the government and its regulators..

dusanmal Dec 30, 2010

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People, end-users lose. Both BigGovt. and BigBusiness win. Freedom loses.

Closed Account Dec 30, 2010

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Absolute true neutrality would be a boon to society as a whole. What the FCC passed here is not that. I still don't know what it is, nor does anyone else it appears.

Of course this is the general occurrence with regulation, no one knows what it truly means until it's in place and then actually used to regulate. What was passed as net neutrality could be very beneficial to citizens/consumers but it could easily be warped to punish them.

wuwei26 Dec 30, 2010

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It's really a pretty simple and straight forward issue, beware of any and all who try to make it complicated. Providers can and should charge for the amount of 0s and 1s that can be received\sent at any time as well as the total number of 0s and 1s that are sent over a given period. Providers should have no say or control over what is contained in those 0s and 1s. This should apply to both wired and wireless. Bam, "net neutrality"; anything different is clearly a boon to one special interest or the other.