FCC abandons net neutrality talks

[Robbien]

Source: AP



WHAT HAPPENED: The Federal Communications Commission is abandoning efforts to negotiate a compromise on so-called "network neutrality" rules intended to ensure that phone and cable TV companies cannot discriminate against Internet traffic traveling over their broadband lines.

THE BACK DROP: The FCC announcement comes as two big companies that have been taking part in FCC-brokered talks, Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc., try to hammer out their own separate proposal on how broadband providers should treat Internet traffic.

WHAT'S NEXT: Verizon and Google are expected to announce their proposal with days.


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FCC got caught secretly negotiating with corporates for use of a public utility.

[chrisa]

1. The future?

I don't know. I hope not. When net neutrality ends, the internet dies as the useful tool that it is, and becomes just another corporate tool like the news media to spread corporate-approved propaganda.

[glinda]

2. Prince was right! The Internet is dead!

[boppers]

4. Net Neutrality never really existed.

It was killed before the web browser was even invented... deeper pockets have always been able to buy more, and faster, links to peers.

[newscott]

5. I see your point but don't you think this takes it to the logical extreme?

[boppers]

6. Extreme, yes....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Likewise, at one point in time, people openly worried if AOL might replace the internet, because they had so much control over what sites were available to their users.... guess how that turned out. :D

[boppers]

3. The internet is not a public utility. It's privately owned and operated.

That's what makes it work so well in the first place, it's a capitalist collective where good is rewarded, and bad is punished by your peers severing links to you.

[alp227]

7. wow what the hell does the FCC do nowadays.

Let's see, a backlog of unresolved broadcast indecency complaints mostly astroturfed from the Parents Television Council.

And now the FCC scrapped Net Neutrality.

I say we should all complain to the FCC about this issue. This is way more important than an accidental cuss word or raunchy episode of a Fox animated sitcom.

[No Elephants]

8. Change we can bereave in.

[Lance_Boyle]

9. FCC got caught nuthin' - these meetings had pro and anti NN advocates.

Two of them, Verizon on the anti side and Google on the pro side, are negotiating amongst themselves (or were, anyway).

FCC's input is meaningless at this point, anyway, unless and until Congress gives them authority to enforce Net Neutrality. Franken is trying - quit scaremongering with false accusations against the FCC and help Franken accomplish something.