FCC to restore net neutrality

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/fcc-to-restore-authority_b_565086.html

"In response to widespread netroots backlash, the chairman of the FCC has decided to choose a path toward a broadband policy framework that will protect Net Neutrality and promote universal access.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Chairman plans to restore the status quo as it existed prior to the court decision in order to fulfill the agency's goals to bring broadband to all Americans and preserve a free and open Internet. The recent court decision determined that changed made by the Bush-era FCC had stripped the agency from authority to regulate Internet broadband providers like Comcast and ATT.

Assuming that the Chairman's proposal is reasonable, it is a clear signal that the FCC is backing away from the cliff, and charting a path toward a sensible broadband policy framework that will protect consumers and promote universal access.

That is welcome news, but we must not rush to judgment on whether the FCC has gone far enough to protect consumers with the new proposal. Public interest groups are awaiting details that will likely be released on Thursday"

does that mean they can slow down our net services while

they give full service to the corporoFascist blogs?

or they could make these sites slower while making faux news blazing fast. think about that though.... a small business against say walmart.com.... if walmart had the faster access and the small business didn't... just one more way for big business to trample the little guy. frightening. and then there is access to information. making it harder to access sites like this and others. think of the implications.

"Welcome news, but we must not rush to judgment on whether the FCC has gone far enough to protect consumers with the new proposal. Public interest groups are awaiting details that will likely be released on Thursday"

are aware of the Stygian implications of a corporately-controlled Internet, I wonder if the Orwellian usurpation of cyberspace would have the kind of impact one could expect? In other words, would it be the very last straw in a series of chess moves that signal a complete encapsulation and homogenization of the human mind?

To me, once you lose freedom of, and access to information in a broad, general and global sense, it becomes clear that media, publishers and service providers become empowered to utilize information primarily for social engineering in various forms and to push consumerism and specific propaganda for conditioning of the masses.

Net neutrality is pivotal to me. Should it continue to be threatened and eventually succumb to corporate monoculture, we stand at the brink of our final checks and balances. While it takes discernment to sort through even what is available online, at least that is a viable option in a time when a subtle war for hearts and minds is being waged constantly with information and data.

We need this protection, one way or another. If the government does accede to the corporate need to clamp-down on our knowledge as power, then it will be the litmus test of how much The People will accept and to what degree they are willing to be conquered slowly, subtly and by default. If Net neutrality is compromised and there is no clear, decisive and relentless backlash from the masses, I simply say give up and accept what amounts to a deep, dark tunnel of increasingly restrictive techno-Fascism.

On the other hand, I have a feeling this issue is going to be a very strong motivation and that even the wide and dense spectrum of largely induced, artifical rifts between all peoples, here and abroad, will not stand in the way of a strong and unified voice spoken in tandem with cohesive actions that forbid unequivocally forbids corporate interference or control of our access to information.

Allow for far fewer information sites. Don't know all that much about it, but it does not seem that far fetched. We have lost our job base, our ability to cope with severe financial forces (while those behind the forces continue to feed at the trough) and on and on.

Way to stay vigilant!