A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt a sharp blow to the efforts of the Federal Communications Commission to set the rules of the road for the Internet, ruling that the agency lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
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The ruling would allow Comcast and other Internet service providers to restrict consumers’ ability to access certain kinds of Internet content, such as video sites like Hulu.com or Google’s YouTube service, or charge certain heavy users of their networks more money for access.
They didn’t finish that sentence accurately…”The ruling would allow Comcast and other Internet service providers to restrict consumers’ ability to access certain kinds of Internet content, such as video sites like Hulu.com or Google’s YouTube service,” and then sell their own competing services by pointing out how slow the others are (because they are making them slow).
This is now probably going to head to the SCOTUS, where a Court that ruled Corporations are Citizens and can spend as much as possible directly to influence elections will probably rule those same corporations CAN NOW ALSO control what (and who’s) information flows over their networks.
Just wait until News Corpse starts buying up these and you’ll quickly see the internet get hacked into political pieces.
Robot Pirate Ninja 