(Newser) – Net neutrality might not be dead after all. The FCC says it will apply a brand new regulatory structure on Internet providers that will allow it to skirt a recent court ruling that found it didn't have the power to force Comcast to treat all Internet traffic equally. Advocates had been pushing the commission to classify broadband Internet the same way it classified phone networks, giving them a host of old regulatory powers, but the commission has settled on a lighter “third way.”
The FCC is a pretty great agency in general. This is no surprise. When they lost their Supreme Court case, it was expected that they would simply do this.
Supreme Court: You don't have authority to tell media companies how to run their broadband services, because of the way it's classified.
FCC: Then we'll... reclassify it? Oh snap!
I'm all for this since I don't want Comcast to block stuff they don't like or slow my speeds like they sometimes do with Netflix. They sometimes do this on Netflix because they want you to get movies from their On Demand service as opposed to Netflix.
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GPFontaine
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Posted:
May 08 2010 11:20 pm
IceWarm wrote:
I'm all for this since I don't want Comcast to block stuff they don't like or slow my speeds like they sometimes do with Netflix. They sometimes do this on Netflix because they want you to get movies from their On Demand service as opposed to Netflix.
Yet with a monopoly in certain areas, people have no alternative for high speed internet or cable television. I know I have them and have no choice.
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Posted:
May 09 2010 10:08 pm
GPFontaine wrote:
IceWarm wrote:
I'm all for this since I don't want Comcast to block stuff they don't like or slow my speeds like they sometimes do with Netflix. They sometimes do this on Netflix because they want you to get movies from their On Demand service as opposed to Netflix.
