[olug] could be good, could be bad

[Abraham Serafino]

Todd, that's what I understood too. Spokespeople from the FCC said that the
courts left the door open to Net Neutrality-like legislation. [sitation
needed]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Todd Christopher Hamilton <
netarttodd at gmail.com> wrote:

> From my understanding, the court ruling only stated that the FCC does not
> have the authority because Congress did not grant them authority. That is
> different than stating the constitution limits the federal government from
> regulating the internet.  Is my understanding correct?
>
>
>
> On 4/23/2010 9:58 AM, Jordan Fox wrote:
>
>> Net neutrality never became law.  Moreover, within the past month or
>> so, courts ruled in Comcast's favor that the FCC doesn't have the
>> authority to regulate internet usage.  Thus, the cable/internet
>> companies can throttle/block any traffic they desire.
>>
>>
>> http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/06/fcc-loses-key-ruling-internet-neutrality/
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR2010040802554.html
>>
>> Jordan
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Luke-Jr<luke at dashjr.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday 23 April 2010 09:40:01 am you wrote:
>>>
>>>> If the ACTA passes, there is more responsibility for the ISP to stop
>>>> piracy. I'd rather see Usenet get dropped rather than see a whole slew
>>>> of
>>>> ports blocked, throttling, blocking all P2P, etc.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What happened to that net neutrality talk? Isn't the whole point to make
>>> it
>>> illegal for ISPs to block/throttle ports or mess with our traffic?
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