govt ought to keep their damn hands off the net except to enforce child porn laws.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:25 AM, dick thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality > | > | from the play-nice-now dept. > | > | posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 25, @17:38 (The Internet) > | > | > https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/2044233/FCC-Declares-Intention-To-Enforce-Net-Neut|<https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/2044233/FCC-Declares-Intention-To-Enforce-Net-Neut%7C> > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > [0]Unequivocal writes "The FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, told > Congress today that the 'Federal Communications Commission plans to > [1]keep the Internet free of increased user fees based on heavy Web > traffic and slow downloads. ...Genachowski... told The Hill that his > agency will support "net neutrality" and go after anyone who violates its > tenets. "One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is > that this FCC will support net neutrality and will enforce any violation > of net neutrality principles," Genachowski said when asked what he could > do in his position to keep the Internet fair, free and open to all > Americans. The statement by Genachowski comes as the commission remains > locked in litigation with Comcast. The cable provider is appealing a > court decision by challenging the FCC's authority to penalize the company > for limiting Web traffic to its consumers.' It looks like the good guys > are winning, unless the appeals court rules against the FCC." > > Discuss this story at: > http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/2044233 > > Links: > 0. http://www.misuse.org/science > 1. > http://thehill.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85184&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=70 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
