"FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules For 'Open Internet'"

[kane_magus]

Nice.

(EDIT) The Republicans, Big Cable™, and Faux Noise blowhards are super buttmad over this. Because of course they are. Somehow, according to the ludicrous moon logic in which they believe, Net Neutrality threatens "freedom of expression." What. (/EDIT)

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

They're just mis-using terminology. What they mean is it threatens the profit, and the ability to gouge the average citizen for all their worth.

Personally I don't expect it to last, or at the very least there's probably some clause hidden in all those new rules and regulations that essentially nerf everything we're being openingly told. (Kinda like up here we had that Canadian DMCA rammed down our throats with it promising to safeguard all sorts of activities - only for all of those rights to be neutered so long as a media company attempts to add some form of DRM. (regardless of how trivial it is.) Guess what every single media company does?

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Given that when this whole thing started after Obama appointed that Wheeler guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler) as the FCC head, Mr. Wheeler seemed like he was on the path to implementing something (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler#Net_neutrality) that would have been pretty much the exact opposite of what we got now, so while it's rather cynical to expect such, it still honestly wouldn't surprise me if all of this was indeed just some sort of huge bait-and-switch thing.

And yeah, the Republicans and their cronies are masters at doublespeak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak). It is, as far as I can tell, pretty much the only real reason that they're still around and in power at all in this day and age.