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2010-04-08 Science & Technology

The FCC Strikes Back - Seeks To Reclassify ISPs As Telecoms

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Ah, redefinition. Why didn't I think of that.

Posted by gorb 2010-04-08 01:33|| 2010-04-08 01:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Greedy little tyrant fucks just won't give up, will they?

Posted by DarthVader 2010-04-08 06:47|| 2010-04-08 06:47|| Front Page Top

#3 The telecommunications act of 1996 explicitly excludes ISPs from the category of telecommunications, unless I'm mistaken.

Posted by Pstanley 2010-04-08 10:10|| 2010-04-08 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4 "Today's court decision invalidated the prior Commission's approach to preserving an open internet,"

Right. Let's call it the People's Democratic Internet you Commie Fuck.

Posted by ed 2010-04-08 10:34|| 2010-04-08 10:34|| Front Page Top

#5 They need to cease and desist.

Posted by newc 2010-04-08 10:39|| 2010-04-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Here is firedoglake's take...

Posted by newc 2010-04-08 11:16|| 2010-04-08 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 The range of controls being actively promoted by this current FCC board is both pernicious and ugly. Unless you're plugged into the FCC through some intermediary--like a broadcaster's association--the very nature of the FCC's proceedings are archane and masked under layers of bureaucratese that are anything but transparent.

Oh, and they're idiots.

Just take a look at their proposal to shift the daisy-chain of the current EAS system to an internet system. But no one can seem to answer the question, what happens when the internet isn't available? It happened here, in December, 2007. No telcom or 'net for weeks following the Dec 4 storm. "Emergency" alert system? On a platform that wasn't/may not be accessible?

Brilliant.
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Posted by OregonGuy 2010-04-08 16:45|| www.oregonguythinks.blogspot.com 2010-04-08 16:45|| Front Page Top

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