FCC adopts Internet traffic rules

FCC expected to enact internet access rules today - Strongest move yet to ensure Facebook updates, Google searches and Skype cal
Federal Regulators are poised to enact Controversial new rules affecting Internet access, marking the government’s strongest move yet to ensure that Facebook updates, Google searches and Skype calls reach consumers’ homes unimpeded. Under the regulations, companies that carry the Internet into American homes would not be allowed to block Web sites that offer rival services, nor would they be permitted to play favorites by dividing delivery of Internet content into fast and slow lane...

Divided FCC adopts rules to protect Web traffic
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Regulators adopted new rules Tuesday to keep the companies that control the Internet's pipelines from restricting what their customers do online or blocking competing services, including online calling applications and Web video. The vote by the Federal Communications Commission was 3-2 and quickly came under attack from the commission's two Republicans, who said the rules would discourage investments in Broadband. Prominent Republicans in Congress vowed to work to ove...

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 ...

Goodbye Free Internet: 'FCC Gives Government Power to Regulate Web Traffic'
WASHINGTON—Federal telecommunications Regulators approved new rules Tuesday that would for the first time give the Federal Government formal authority to regulate Internet Traffic, although how much or for how long remained unclear. A divided Federal Communications Commission approved a proposal by Chairman Julius Genachowski to give the FCC power to prevent Broadband providers from selectively blocking web traffic. The rules will go into effect early next year, but Legal Challenges or acti...

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 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...

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 Votes Itself Judge Dredd of the Internet
In a Speech delivered on January 19, 2010, Julius Genachowski, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, declared that transparency “is particularly important for Consumer Protection and Empowerment.” He praised “access to information” as “essential to properly functioning markets” and stated that “policies around information disclosure...can be enormously helpful in ensuring that markets are working.” Does Genachowski believe it’s less imp

REGULATE...
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. The rules would prohibit phone and cable companies from abusing their control over Broadband connections to discriminate against rival content or services, such as Internet phone calls or online video, or play favorites with Web traffic. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski now has the three votes neede...

Looks like net neutrality ruling will come shortly
The rules are set to win passage in a vote Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission, after a majority of the panel's five members said they planned to vote in favor of the measure. The proposal, pushed by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, seeks to add teeth to a principle known as Net Neutrality, which calls for all legal Internet Traffic to be treated equally. It means that a cable company such as Comcast could not slow traffic of Netflix video, while a wireless carrier such as V...

Breaking: FCC Passes Net Neutrality Rules
Update 2, 11.35 am Pacific: On a 3-2 vote, the FCC passed “Controversial” rules on Net Neutrality today. From Politico: Led by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, the Democrats on the panel voted Tuesday to approve the first enforceable Net neutrality rules, which will prohibit Internet service providers such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from blocking access to lawful content and websites. The small print: no public copy of the rules “until later in the week.” The rumo...

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...

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...

Isakson condemns FCC over decision to implement Net Neutrality
Paulding County, Georgia - In Paulding County, there are a few media reporting entities of various types including the Paulding County Republican Examiner, The Paulding Sentinel, and a few blogs and the FCC’s decision today may have a far reaching impact on their operation and what is and what is not reported or spoken about. With today’s announcement of the FCC decision to implement “Net Neutrality”, the question several are asking is, “What will the impact b...

FCC Passes Net Neutrality
Article I Section 1 of the US Constitution states very clearly “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” Article I Section 7 explains the lawmaking process very clearly. Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not ...

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...

Why we should be worried about "net neutrality"
The FCC's decision yesterday to grab for itself the power to regulate the Internet through so-called "Net Neutrality" rules is the latest grab for Federal Government power over private industry. There wasn't any big demand for such Regulation. The Internet has grown from the small source it was in the beginning to be the wonderful source that it is today through private companies investing and competing with each other. But that isn't good enough for the Democrats on the FCC. They want more cont...

Rep. Marsha Blackburn Promises to Undo FCCs Internet Regulations
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), a longtime advocate of Internet freedom, said she’s undaunted by the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to adopt Net Neutrality rules. Instead, she thinks the FCC’s action will be a catalyst for renewed commitment on the issue in the 112th Congress. “What we will do is first use this as a way to show how we’re going to keep that Pledge to America,” she said yesterday at The Heritage Foundation. “We said in the Pledge that an

OVERNIGHT TECH: FCC poised to approve net-neutrality rules on Tuesday, but Title II still looms
FCC poised to approve net-neutrality rules on Tuesday, but Title II still looms The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will pass Internet line regulations for the first time ever on Tuesday, shoring them up with a shaky legal argument that could get shot down in court. But the agency will not close the door on using a stricter legal framework that might be more likely to survive a court challenge — even though the tougher regime is seen as anathema to Broadband investment. It became cle...

Sleepy Agency Causes Stir
The FCC is in many ways a typical federal agency that makes decisions impacting all of our lives but doesn't draw much public attention until it does something Controversial. Tuesday's unanimous decision to improve and expand 911 services to include text messaging and video streaming was buried by a contentious 3-2 ruling placing greater Regulations on Internet providers. Chairman Julius Genachowski tried his best to downplay any disagreement over the commission's Net Neutrality order. "Today,...

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...

'Net Neutrality' Passes
© Unknown The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to approve its first ever Internet access Regulation, which ensures unimpeded access to any legal Web content for home Internet users. The same provisions do not apply as strongly to cellphone users because the agency voted to keep Wireless Networks generally free of rules preventing the blocking and slowing of Web traffic. The FCC's three Democratic members made up a majority of votes in favor of the so-called Net Neutrality...

Net Neutrality
But what is known is that today’s developments will have far-reaching effects. Good or bad? Hard to say. It’s very difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff on this issue, since all sides seem to have compelling arguments to make. Our readers know that we subscribe to the general principle that “that government is best which governs least” (or, as Doug Casey would contend, “governs not at all”). And this would seem to be especially true with regard to the...