The vote is in the the FCC voted for the watered-down rules on Net neutrality. That is great news for comcast, AT&T, Verizon. That is lousy news for independent media and small businesses. It's lousy also for those of us with little money.
Here are some links to read. It is important reading and everyone should know what the rules do and do not protect because the internet as we knew it - the greatest, most innovative, fairest of things - is a thing of the past starting today, unless we push back at the telecoms and corporate-owned government.
The fight is not over yet. People and organizations will keep on petitioning. But we're all gonna have to be way more creative than that to even be able to get on the internet soon. Mine is already slowing down as of today.
I personally think we should go BACK to the telecommunications act of 1934, with a clause saying that all broadband (and fiberoptics, and whatever else they invent) is a telecommunications industry, NOT an information industry, which is how the big telecoms selling broadband are classified under the 1996 act, and that's how they are getting around the constraints of being regulated today.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-rosenbaum/breaking-fcc-breaks-obama_b_799844.html
why the new FCC rules on net neutrality won't work and what they WON'T protect.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/21/mitch-mcconnell-accuses-o_1_n_799674.html?ir=Technology
good explanation on how the FCC has had its powers stripped in recent years, and how the telecommunications act of 1996 opened the way for big telecoms to rule the internet and broadband.
Here's a petition from Save The Internet to sign:
http://act2.freepress.net/sign/nn_pledge/?akid=2195.9816802.uMTstF&rd=1&t=5
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