No Net Neutrality. Whoops.

[Noodle]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20001825-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

he Federal Communications Commission does not have the legal authority to slap Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. unanimously tossed out the FCC's August 2008 cease and desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to slow BitTorrent transfers before voluntarily ending them earlier that year.

Because the FCC "has failed to tie its assertion" of regulatory authority to an actual law enacted by Congress, the agency does not have the power to regulate an Internet provider's network management practices, wrote Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Every single argument around this issue seems to revolve around freedom to whatever. The companies want freedom to regulate their own service, the people want free, unrestricted internet.

And as usual, the people that actual provide the damn service (and thus make the money) are going to be hated by most internet and forum-goers.

I say don't regulate the services, just regulate the regional monopolies that give some people no alternative. Makes much more sense, and everybody gets their freedom.

 

[Eejit]

Beaten to it by seconds.
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=167974

 

[Noodle]

Not even fair.

Moving comments... now.

 

[Maestro]

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