Divided FCC adopts rules to protect Web traffic

'Net neutrality' rules to protect web competition
Internet providers are barred from restricting how customers use their service even if it means allowing competitors to run rival services under new rules adopted by US Federal communications Regulators. The rules are intended to promote "Net Neutrality" and have the backing of the White House, but immediately came in for condemnation by Republicans who said investors would be discouraged from putting money into providing Broadband services. The rules were agreed by the Federal Communications Co...

FCC adopts net neutrality rules
Federal Regulators have issued new rules that ultimately will affect how Americans access videos over the Internet and how carriers charge for content. The 3-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday strikes a balance between Silicon Valley content creators, who use digital networks to deliver their virtual wares, and the cable and telephone companies that want to sell their own content and services to customers in addition to hooking them up to the World Wide Web. The new rul...

FCC adopts net neutrality rules
Federal Regulators have issued new rules that ultimately will affect how Americans access videos over the Internet and how carriers charge for content. The 3-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday strikes a balance between Silicon Valley content creators, who use digital networks to deliver their virtual wares, and the cable and telephone companies that want to sell their own content and services to customers in addition to hooking them up to the World Wide Web. The new rul...

FCC adopts net neutrality rules
Federal Regulators have issued new rules that ultimately will affect how Americans access videos over the Internet and how carriers charge for content. The 3-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday strikes a balance between Silicon Valley content creators, who use digital networks to deliver their virtual wares, and the cable and telephone companies that want to sell their own content and services to customers in addition to hooking them up to the World Wide Web. The new rul...

Divided FCC Adopts Rules to Protect Web Traffic
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 By Joelle Tessler, Associated Press In this file photo made March 12, 2010, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is interviewed at his office in Washington. New rules aimed at prohibiting Broadband providers from becoming gatekeepers of Internet Traffic now have just enough votes to pass the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file) Washington (AP) - A divided Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules ...

Internet Freedom on the Line
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission voted on new rules that critics say could allow media conglomerates to decide whose content gets to be seen on the Internet and whose doesn’t. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is said to have the votes he needs to pass Net Neutrality Regulation. Internet freedom advocates are blasting Genachowski and the Obama Administration for reneging on a campaign promise that Candidate Obama made, saying he would protect th...

Control freak Democrats ignore will of people to regulate internet
Image by Getty Images via @daylife John Fund, WSJ: The Federal Communications Commission's new "Net Neutrality" rules, passed on a partisan 3-2 vote yesterday, represent a huge win for a slick lobbying campaign run by liberal Activist groups and foundations. The losers are likely to be consumers who will see innovation and investment chilled by Regulations that treat the Internet like a Public Utility. There's little evidence the public is demanding these rules, which purport to stop the non-p...

FCC Ignores Net Neutrality Ruling
When Julius Genachowski’s FCC board voted to regulate the Internet, it did so without regard for a Federal Court’s ruling that the FCC didn’t have the authority to regulate the internet . Here’s what the AP is reporting on the FCC’s attempted powergrab: A federal court threw the future of Internet regulations and U.S. Broadband expansion plans into doubt Tuesday with a far-reaching decision that went against the Federal Communications Commission. The U.S. Court of...

FCC: Yup, we're going to stop "paid prioritization" on the 'Net
The Federal Communications Commission is releasing the details of its new Net Neutrality Order in stages. Although the FCC's new ban on "unreasonable Discrimination" for wired ISPs allows certain kinds of traffic discrimination (not all bits need be equal), the agency made clear after today's meeting that "paid prioritization" deals with Internet companies are unlikely to be allowed. Critics had worried that the new Order would only affect outright website blocking, leaving paid prioritization u...

Divided FCC adopts Internet rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided Federal Communications Commission banned Internet service providers like Comcast Corp from blocking traffic on their networks, provoking warnings the rules would be rejected in the courts and threats from Republican lawmakers to overturn them. The 3-2 decision on Tuesday highlighted a huge divide between those who say the Internet should flourish without Regulation and those who say the power of high-speed Internet Providers to discriminate against competitors ne...

Internet access is not a civil right
Meet the new Internet Traffic cops Internet access is not a “civil right” by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 When Bureaucrats talk about increasing your “access” to X, Y, or Z, what they’re really talking about is increasing their control over your lives exponentially. As it is with the government Health Care takeover, so it is with the newly-approved government plan to “increase” Internet “access.” Call it Webcare. By a vote of 3-2,

'Net neutrality': ObamaCare for the Web
Michelle Malkin When Bureaucrats talk about increas ing our "access" to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is in creasing exponentially their control over our lives. As with the government Health Care takeover, so with the newly approved government plan to "increase" Internet "access." Call it Webcare. By a vote of 3-2, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday adopted a Controversial scheme to ensure "Net Neutrality" by turning unaccountable Democratic appointees into meddli...

Obamas FCC: Move aside, peasants, were in charge [Darleen Click]
John Fund points out this is just the beginning The Net Neutrality vision for government Regulation of the Internet began with the work of Robert McChesney, a University of Illinois communications Professor who founded the liberal lobby Free Press in 2002. Mr. McChesney’s agenda? “At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies,” he told the website SocialistProject in 2009. “But the ultimate goal is to ...

Al Franken: The Internet as We Know it Is Still at Risk
In today's Net Neutrality action by the Federal Communications Commission there's good news and bad news. The good news is that, thanks to Commissioners Copps and Clyburn -- not to mention a nationwide network of Net Neutrality Activists -- the proposal approved today is better than the original circulated by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. For instance, the FCC has now stated that it does not condone discriminatory behavior by wireless companies like Verizon and AT&T; -- an important piece th...

FCCs Net Neutrality Ruling Gives Government Power to Regulate Web
A landmark ruling by the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday has given the U.S. Government the power to regulate the Internet. The FCC’s Net Neutrality ruling was passed with a vote of 3-2, with the two dissenting Republicans giving very vocal opposition to the move. Get the full story, plus pictures and video below! Under the premise of protecting the freedom of the internet from ever-expanding Internet Providers, the commission laid out rules to prohibit access p...

Christina Gagnier: In a Rare Moment, Consensus Reached in Net Neutrality Debate
The FCC should at least get credit for the one thing they accomplished with today's Net Neutrality vote: they brought both sides of a critical issue together to declare a collective "WTF," most appropriate considering the Commission's policy on wireless. Prepared statement after prepared statement, the Commission did nothing to move the discussion of Net Neutrality forward. The ruling today will not preserve the open Net; instead, the Commission's half-hearted attempt to maintain relevance wil...

Divided FCC adopts rules to protect Web traffic
WASHINGTON — A divided Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules meant to prohibit Broadband companies from interfering with Internet Traffic flowing to their customers. The 3-2 vote Tuesday marks a major victory for FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who has spent more than a year trying to craft a Compromise. The FCC's three Democrats voted to pass the rules, while the two Republicans opposed them, calling them unnecessary Regulation. The new rules are likely to face intense...

FCC Gives Government Power to Regulate Web...
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FCC passes 'net neutrality' Internet regulations
Your article has been sent. The Federal Communications Commission today passed Controversial new rules that prevent Internet Providers from playing favorites or blocking access to Web sites that offer rival services. Supporters of "Net Neutrality," the principle that all Internet Traffic should be treated exactly the same by service providers, said the proposed Regulations won't go far enough. "We're very worred that these rules won't be real net neutrality," said Craig Aaron before today's FCC...

Agency splits along party lines...
By Jasmin Melvin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. communications Regulators adopted Internet Traffic rules on Tuesday that prevent providers from blocking lawful content but still let them ration access to their networks. The Federal Communications... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. communications Regulators adopted Internet Traffic rules on Tuesday that prevent providers from blocking lawful content but still let them ration access to their networks. The Federal Communications Commission approved the "...

FCC Passes Compromise Net Neutrality Rules
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski presiding over an open Internet meeting in March 2010. Photo Credit: Greg Elin In a closely watched vote, the FCC approved Compromise Net Neutrality rules Tuesday that would forbid the nation’s largest cable and DSL Internet service providers from blocking or slowing online services, while leaving wireless companies with much more latitude. After five years of contentious debate that polarized the tech policy world, FCC chief Julius Genachowski made good on ...

I don't know about you but sites are loading more slowly for me already
Right now, as I sit here, I have Americablog in one tab sitting and waiting for "widget.linkwithin.com". Vagabond Scholar is in another one, waiting for "i4.ytimg.com". The article in the New York Times on how the so-called Democratic majority at the FCC sold us out on Net Neutrality yesterday won't run at all. It's waiting for "graphics8.nytimes.com". Ah, there it goes...after about a full minute. Wired.com's home page is waiting for "syndication.jobthread.com." CNBC.com took forever to load, w...

Net Neutrality Vote: Twitter Users As Divided As FCC
On Tuesday, the FCC voted to adopt a framework that aims to preserve an "open Internet" by prohibiting Internet service providers from discriminating in how they handle information traveling over their networks. "The rules," according to the AP, "require Broadband providers to let subscribers access all legal online content, applications and services over their wired networks -- including online calling services, Internet video and other Web applications that compete with their core businesse...

Internet Access Is Not a Civil Right
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 By Michelle Malkin When Bureaucrats talk about increasing our "access" to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government Health Care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to "increase" Internet "access." Call it Webcare. By a vote of 3-2, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday adopted a Controversial scheme to ensure "Net Neutrality" by turning una...

FCC approves Web rules
The 3-2 vote Tuesday marks a major victory for FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who spent more than a year trying to craft a Compromise. The FCC's three Democrats voted to pass the rules, while the two Republicans opposed them, calling them unnecessary Regulation. The new rules are likely to face intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill once Republicans take over the House. Meanwhile, public interest groups decried the regulations as too weak, particularly for...