I thought the court's ruling stated that Congress authorized the FCC to
regulate only Telecommunications. If Congress wishes for the FCC to
regulate Broadband, then it should do so. Hence Comcast, not a
Telecommunications company, but a Broadband company does not fall under
the juristicion of the FCC. Am I wrong?
mike wrote:
You mean like where the FCC under Bush tried to make throttling illegal?
Now the courts decided the FCC can't do that, so back to the big providers
deciding what content they want to give you at what speed.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:19 AM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote:
A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal
Communications Commission lacks the authority to require
broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet
traffic flowing over their networks.
I heard the tail end of this story on Market Place this afternoon. Then
they said that Comcast's stock went *down*. What's up with that?
Comcast's "win" isn't exactly a success. The FCC is an independent Federal
agency that makes many of its own rules. The Bush administration's
anti-government appointees effectively eviscerated the FCC by not enforcing
existing rules and making new consumer-hostile rules that prevent protection
of consumer privacy, truth in billing, and competition.
It's possible for the FCC to rewrite its rules to return the regulations
that were removed by the previous administration's appointees. In the long
run, this could be a boost to 'net neutrality--if the current commissioner
has the guts to do it: reinstate consumer protection, promote competition,
and require Internet Neutrality.
While the FCC is doing its job, enforcing consumer-friendly rules--unlike
in the past administration where they didn't do much of anything and let the
broadband companies write the rules--Congress can try to pass legislation to
protect consumers and ensure 'net neutrality. If this doesn't happen, the
United States, which was first in Internet penetration, then fourth, now
twenty-second, will continue to fall behind other industrial countries in
broadband penetration, speed and affordability.
Let the "party of NO" have a real filibuster on the floor of the Senate,
reading the phone book and Finnegan's Wake or whatever. Then when that one
senator can't stand up and talk any more, the Senate can vote on something
good for the people. How about requiring a capella singing filibusters?
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