Tuesday, April 6, 2010

U.S. court rules against FCC on Net neutrality

internet-scamsThis is not good news. The cable companies are going to be the gate-keepers to the Internet now. That means they’ll control the content and no one can do a damn thing about it! 

Ruling is setback for agency's push for national broadband plan

"Today's appeals court decision means there are no protections in the law for consumers' broadband services," Gigi Sohn, co-founder of Public Knowledge, said in a statement. "Companies selling Internet access are free to play favorites with content on their networks, to throttle certain applications or simply to block others."

1 comment:

Tom Sebourn said...

Great, now it will take 5 minutes for my blog to load. If I piss off big business it might take 10.

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