FCC to Propose New 'Net Neutrality' Rules

[Virgorising]

Via the WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_...4579519963416350296-lMyQjAxMTA0MDIwMzEyNDMyWj

 

[smackababy]

The proposed rules would prevent the service providers from blocking or discriminating against specific websites, but would allow broadband providers to give some traffic preferential treatment, so long as such arrangements are available on "commercially reasonable" terms for all interested content companies

That sounds like discrimination...

 

[ElFenix]

That sounds like discrimination...

seems a bit like common carrier rules. best efforts for normal traffic and a guaranteed service level with published rates.

 

[SSSnail]

seems a bit like common carrier rules. best efforts for normal traffic and a guaranteed service level with published rates.

”Best efforts” leaves so much to interpretation, and you know how it will end up.

 

[Midwayman]

seems a bit like common carrier rules. best efforts for normal traffic and a guaranteed service level with published rates.

Fine until they purposefully degrade their "best effort" service to the point its really not viable. You know that's exactly what will happen.

 

[PliotronX]

"Commercially reasonable" means something completely different to free market enterprises and to monopolies.

 

[Miramonti]

This is the FCC with someone's d*ck in their mouth.

 

[Phoenix86]

Last mile interconnects are the bottlenecks now eh?

Gotta milk last mile for all it's worth.

 

[SMOGZINN]

This is the FCC with someone's d*ck in their mouth.

The FCC is basically owned by the cable and wireless industry. The current chair of the FCC is the former head of both the wireless industry and cable industry's lobbyist groups and the previous 2 FCC heads are the current heads of those lobbyist groups. Their relationships are so incestuous that that any rule they produce automatically has cleft lip and is named Bubba.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

that policy is complete crap.

its too bad there is literally nothing we can do about it.

atleast there will still be a "vote"

 

[Jeff7]

The idea is that consumers should be able to access whatever content they choose, not the content chosen by the broadband provider.

But it would also allow providers to give preferential treatment to traffic from some content providers, as long as such arrangements are available on "commercially reasonable" terms for all interested content companies.

See that? It is neutral. The FCC will remain neutral, allowing businesses to come to arrangements that "reasonably" screw their customers, while giving their stockholding executives persistent sexual arousal disorder.

The FCC is basically owned by the cable and wireless industry. The current chair of the FCC is the former head of both the wireless industry and cable industry's lobbyist groups and the previous 2 FCC heads are the current heads of those lobbyist groups. Their relationships are so incestuous that that any rule they produce automatically has cleft lip and is named Bubba.

Unfortunately, these disfigured offspring are never sterile.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

You can send FCC Chairman Wheeler an email (probably goes straight to trash)

Send an E-mail to Chairman Wheeler. Whatever, I did it.

 

[mmntech]

that policy is complete crap.

its too bad there is literally nothing we can do about it.

atleast there will still be a "vote"

So much for "hope & change". Doesn't seem to matter which party is in power down there.

 

[raasco]

Time to classify it as a utility and get it over with.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Time to vote them ALL off the island people.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I'm not seeing how this resembles Net Neutrality. The FCC is now trying to figure out how to make the corp's happy and let us think the Internet is still open and free. The sad part is most consumers don't even know wtf this is.

 

[Jeff7]

You can send FCC Chairman Wheeler an email (probably goes straight to trash)

Send an E-mail to Chairman Wheeler. Whatever, I did it.

Just make sure that the message specifies the dollar amount of the bribe, and when he can expect to receive it.

 

[lothar]

So much for "hope & change". Doesn't seem to matter which party is in power down there.

Meet the new boss...Same as the old boss.

 

[Virgorising]

Just caught up in this thread. I think I am going to delve to find online petitions, assuming they exist already.

 

[dmcowen674]

I told you so

 

[PliotronX]

The sad part is most consumers don't even know wtf this is.

Yup, when their access to certain sites is slow, I am going to get calls about their entire internet being slow. Awesome. The icing on the cake is they probably don't have to disclose which sites they are actively throttling so only after much trial and error and scouring the net for complaints will we have a semi-accurate database of their malfeasance.

Go 'merica.

 

[Jeff7]

Yup, when their access to certain sites is slow, I am going to get calls about their entire internet being slow. Awesome. The icing on the cake is they probably don't have to disclose which sites they are actively throttling so only after much trial and error and scouring the net for complaints will we have a semi-accurate database of their malfeasance.

Go 'merica.

Yes, that'll probably be the case. We can't have competitors knowing who's getting screwed, how hard, and who isn't.


Using Comcast, to watch video sourced from something Comcast doesn't own? Sucks to be you. You should really be watching a movie made by Universal Studios.

 

[Virgorising]

This-all is making me depressed. I just emailed The White House. I do that with support (I often use basketball analogies, .i.e, go right! Set picks!) cause Obamababe is a Southpaw as I am)......but today, I simply said, You campaigned on this, I know you have more than ever on yr plate, but, please, U gotta fight for it!

Nobody will call offensive foul. I din say that, cause, sure they will.

PLEASE CONSIDER DOING THIS:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

 

[Virgorising]

Huffington Update:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/24/net-neutrality-rules_n_5205844.html

"Enhanced Gov oversight"..... I think we need to see how all this plays out, how the full reality emerges.

 

[Phoenix86]

Question: Does anyone believe content is bottlenecking at the last mile?

If that's the case, how does adding peering boxes on the DC side free up bandwidth at the last mile? As demonstrated with the Comcast deal, the bottleneck is at the DC, or rather, it's generated at the DC (imo).

Remember, Comcast was saying, just recently that it was connection between the top tier providers and Comcast.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/b...netflix-reach-a-streaming-agreement.html?_r=0

Comcast, Verizon and other Internet service providers denied that they were playing any role in slowing down traffic. Instead, they blamed the intermediaries that Netflix used to deliver its content to Comcast on its way to consumers. They said that those middlemen — companies like Cogent Communications — were trying to shove too much data through too small a pipe.