Quote:So the neutrality guys their talking about the FCC recatagorizing internet access as a utility is this the only way to achieve it?


I'm not sure how I feel about recatagorizing to put it under the FCC jurisdiction. Why is it not possible to simply pass legislation requiring unfiltered access across the board? What they're talking about now sounds more like a step towards nationalizing the internet, That would be a Very bad situation.

 

You wouldn't know a Very bad situation if it were kicking you in the crotch.

 

The FCC has always had jurisdiction over internet providers, the problem is that they have defined regulatory categories created by congress, the courts essentially said you can regulate broadband and internet providers in general, but that the FCC has to actually do it under a categorization and can't just create a set of rules that congress didn't already authorize them for.

 

You probably don't understand this, and think the real problem is too much regulation, but over the past decade it's been a lack of regulation that caused the current situation whereby broadband in the USA is slower and more expensive than a significant part of the industrialized world.

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