FW: News Alert: Court Rules Against F.C.C. in 'Net Neutrality' Case

[Hugh C. Lauer]

Yet another reason to move forward with an open network.

/Hugh

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From: NYTimes.com News Alert [mailto:nytd...@nytimes.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 11:24 AM
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Subject: News Alert: Court Rules Against F.C.C. in 'Net Neutrality' Case

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Tue, April 06, 2010 -- 11:23 AM ET
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Court Rules Against F.C.C. in 'Net Neutrality' Case

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal
Communications Commission lacks the authority to require
broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet
traffic flowing over their networks.

Tuesday's ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia is a big victory for the Comcast
Corporation, the nation's largest cable company. It had
challenged the F.C.C.'s authority to impose so called "net
neutrality" obligations.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com?emc=na

[Genine Tillotson]

Hugh:

 

You said it.  Big lobbyists (at a scale/cost we can barely imagine) have ensured an unregulated mess of "bundled services" in which individual telecomm. issues continue to surface. 

 

There are no caps on what they can charge to consumers, varying (and inconsistent) rules on how they are required to respond during service outages, and now we have decisions like this that certainly will impact our fundamental 1st amendment rights.

Supreme Court -- here we go!

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