Another quick one tonight. I’d feel bad, but the Net Neutrality situation is so important that the current developments by themselves are worth noting. And here’s the key fact right now: It is confirmed that Net Neutrality will not be on the agenda at the FCC’s September meeting. They’ve talked for months, but they’re going to talk some more.
My theory is that Google has pulled out the rug from everyone, the White House is considering going along with the plan as it can be said to meet the President’s campaign promise (transparency online, no discrimination on the public Internet, no two tiers of public Internet traffic, you name it). Another theory is simpler: public and industry support for the Free Press plan is collapsing, so the FCC has to throw out that idea and start over.
Even if Free Press pet Commissioner Michael Copps says the sky is falling. Again.
P.S. Remember when I said that Eric Schmidt sounded like he belonged in politics? he’d better work on his image a bit before he tries. He’s just too much of a target right now after he’s made so many outrageous remarks denying Americans should have privacy.
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Great news to wake up to
peg_c (Diary) Saturday, September 4th at 7:56AM EST (link)even if glee is premature. Can’t trust any of these totalitarians as far as you can throw them.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
The idea of
markvol Sunday, September 5th at 8:32AM EST (link)the internet being controlled by the likes of Google, or anyone else,
makes me cringe. When the government makes a pact with a private company, no one wins, except the government, by taking eventual control of it, thereby gaining power.
Like so many times in the past, innocuous little regulations turn into democrats taking advantage of their new born powers of taxation, and we get stuck paying another tax, so they can play some more. Those little regulations turn into a little more regulation and another user fee to feed the beast.
The internet must remain free, if for nothing else, to let the left blogs keep making fools of themselves, and let everyone else laugh at them. You need a laugh, every once in a while.
Just keep Mark Lloyd away from it.
I don’t understand why Google needs to be involved in any of this.
I guess they aren’t content in being huge. They must look in the mirror too often, like our messiah does.