FCC Chairman Calls for Formal Net Neutrality Rules

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Broadband provider Comcast filed a lawsuit challenging the FCC's authority to enforce the principles after the agency ruled last August that Comcast had to stop slowing peer-to-peer traffic in the name of network management.

The Comcast lawsuit was filed late last year, and a ruling is pending. Comcast argued that the FCC needs to create a rule or get authority from the U.S. Congress to enforce net neutrality. In addition to Genachowski's new rulemaking, a bill pending in the U.S. Congress would give the FCC that authority.

Several broadband providers have opposed formal net neutrality rules, saying they could hamper provider efforts to roll out new services and manage their networks, and to protect against attacks and bandwidth hogs.

But Genachowski said there have been examples in recent years of broadband providers blocking or slowing applications, including peer-to-peer software and VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service. There has been one example of a broadband provider blocking political content, he noted.

From PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172312/fcc_chairman_calls_for_formal_net_neutrality_rules.html

If this DOESN'T pass, we could potentially see a lot of conservative ISP's blocking access to DU and other lefty groups and websites... and the world could slide quite quickly back to the good ol' days of 1965, where the best internet porn you'll be able to find is stuff like THIS:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxUX9VHo7VA">Perversion for Profit Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNTdkbsuU4">Perversion for Profit Part 2



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