Net Neutrality

They'll all do it if they will be allowed to do so. This is America after all.

I do believe however that going back to the mid 90s with AOL-type metering is unthinkable and would set us back so far when it comes to competing globally that we might as well kiss our ass good-bye as far as being a leading technology innovator.

 

Not at all. It simply affirmed that the FCC overstepped its bounds (imagine that) in trying to spin a new area of regulation out of thin air.

Net neutrality seems like a fine idea to me, having not really given it that much thought. It's just how you arrive at it. By legal, affirmable means is always best.

 

So Congress will now have to act to either legislate net neutrality or to empower the FCC?

 

Pretty much.

 

Oh good. Congress will get involved. I feel so much better.

 

They've tried before to legislate net neutrality but the sausage making has always kept them from actually accomplishing anything. The current FCC head is very pro-net neutrality, though, so, maybe that will help?

 

There's already been saber-rattling from Orrin Hatch he'll lead the GOP fight against net neutrality.

Of course, it doesn't help when Glenn Beck is saying net neutrality is a Marxist plot to control the Internet and destroy our freedom of speech.

 

So, as described here, net neutrality sounds like the way to go.

Anyone want to play Devil's advocate and explain why Orin Hatch & Glenn Beck are against it?

 

If that's true that's, umm, odd. Net neutrality protects freedom of speech because it ensures that everyone can see your Web site, instead of, say, only Time Warner or AT&T users.

 

No clue. My guess, though, would be that it's a type of regulation, you're telling the government is telling the service providers something they can't do.

 

Hatch and the GOP see it as yet another slippery slope of government control. Beck just flat out doesn't understand it or is choosing to distort it. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004050059

It is the way to go. Groups as diverse as Moveon.org, Gun Owners of America, the ACLU and the Christian Coalition of America support net neutrality.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality#Arguments_against_network_neutrality