Monday, September 21, 2009

HARDLY DRAMATIC BUT PROBABLY IMPORTANT


















The following story may well be a victory for the good guys. It also makes a change to see that FCC actually doing something other than levying fines for saying “fuck” on the air.

“The top U.S. communications regulator plans to unveil proposals Monday for ensuring Web traffic is not slowed or blocked based on its content, sources familiar with the contents of the speech said on Friday. The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Julius Genachowski, pictured in June 2009, is expected to outline rules on Monday requiring Internet providers to respect "net neutrality," the principle that all Web traffic should be treated equally.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce plans to ask his fellow commissioners to adopt as a rule net neutrality and four existing principles on Internet access issued by the agency in 2005, one of the sources said.
Net neutrality pits open Internet companies like Google Inc against broadband service providers like AT&T Inc, Verizon Communications Inc and Comcast Corp, which oppose new rules governing network management.
Advocates of net neutrality say Internet service providers must be barred from blocking or slowing traffic based on its content.
But service providers say the increasing volume of bandwidth-hogging services, like video sharing, requires active management of their networks and some argue that net neutrality could stifle innovation.”
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2 comments:

Guifré, el petit ornitòleg aficionat said...

Mick:
I'd like to send you a Q&A for my fanzine.
Can you please send me your e-mail address to
laescuelamoderna (at) gmail (dot) com, so I can send the questionnaire?
Thanks in advance
Your fan
Uri

butlincat said...

Another fan remarks = " MF - I put the very nice pic of you from the cover of the Sunday Telegraph mag in my latest unreleased Zappa video for Youtube....hope u dont mind...sry,cant pay no royalties - "I am just a poor boy...." - u know how the song goes...in the light...butlincat "