ebay's "the lights are on....the lights are off" syndrome taken to a grand scale.
http://libertynewsnow.com/fcc-decide-fate-internet/article606
While our opposition came up with the confusing name “Net Neutrality” we understood that means “government regulation” and we chose to stick with what we have.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced that the commission will make a decision in February.
No further comments were called for . . . that’s a good sign.
But the public still does not understand the issue.
One comical (or not) commenter in a Washington Post article summed up the position with clarity when responding to a Net Neutrality supporter:
ThanksForTheFish: Have you seen what Comcast wants to do to the Internet? They WILL nickel and dime the Internet to death.
Jack Foobar: Yea, but they won’t arrest you and shoot you in the face when you blog about Dear Leader. There’s a big difference between inconvenience (choosing another provider/moving) and being dead.
Yes, that’s an extreme response but the reality is we don’t know how far the government will take regulation of the Internet.
While we can all hope that no “face shootin” occurs anytime soon, we do know from very recent history that the government will use information against others for political reasons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
Net neutrality (also network neutrality, Internet neutrality or net equality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.
The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003 as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier.
There has been extensive debate about whether net neutrality should be required by law, particularly in the United States[citation needed].
Debate over the issue of net neutrality predates the coining of the term. Advocates of net neutrality such as Lawrence Lessig have raised concerns about the ability of broadband providers to use their last mile infrastructure to block Internet applications and content (e.g. websites, services, and protocols), and even to block out competitors
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