FCC and the internet

Douglas Pollard dougpol1 at verizon.net
Wed Oct 21 17:20:12 BST 2009


John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>   
>>  What is Net Neutrality,
>>     
>
> Let me google that for you:
>    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Net+Neutrality
>
> This will give you a list of sites that will give you a more thorough
> answer than I could provide.
>
>   
>> is an opinionated e-mail a
>> violation of such a doctrine??
>>     
>
> No but using deep packet filtering to censor opinionated e-mails may
> be a violation of Net Neutrality. Turns out Net Neutrality has more to
> do with prohibiting ISPs from censoring, rather than requiring them
> from doing so. While governments have made numerous attempts to censor
> the internet, this doesn't appear to be one of them.
>
>   
Net Neutrality is not so much the problem. It is the FCC that will gain 
control to enforce it.  One more case  of  using an seemingly innocent 
bill to gain control and we won't know what Net Neutrality is, until it 
is past, as are all bills these days with no one being able to read them 
in their entirety before passing.  It may not be an attempt at censor 
ship, but is it a Trojan horse ??
                                                                         
                                                                        
        Doug



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