Thursday, December 02, 2010

Feds still trying to control the internet

With the BEST of intentions, of course
"The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to announce Wednesday a controversial proposal that would prohibit Internet providers from favoring or discriminating against any traffic that goes over their networks.

He would do so, however, without resorting to the more drastic step of changing the way the FCC regulates broadband providers, a move that would have more clearly asserted the government's authority over Internet access.

Source

Odd that the internet seems to be working just fine as it is!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

In the free trade model internet providers have the right to provide or deny traffic at their commercial peril. Any attempt to interefe with that is censorship which seems to be the Obama objective all all areas of commerce.

Anonymous said...

Just in case anyone is not aware of it, this plan has nothing to do with it's stated purpose, (just like everything else this administration has done and is doing) and everything to do with it's "real" purpose. CONTROL!

If they're so worried about internet content, why are they not concerned with the fact that "invasion of our privacy", on a "massive" scale, is now under way, and all in the name of profit?


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870
4679204575646704100959546.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

Spurwing Plover said...

Anyway BIG BROTHER can control us and snoop on us he will do it and the famous opening line from THE OUTER LIMITS was WE,LL ALL YOU SEE AND HEAR is true with BIG BROTHER

stinky said...

Odd that the internet seems to be working just fine as it is!

Perhaps a poll question is in order:

Which works better, the internet or the government?