NEWS: Google and Verizon unveil Web plan
in [Wireless Internet]
|
Prev: NEWS: Sony Ericsson, AT&T announce the X10, available Aug. 15 for $149.99
Next: Advice on wireless adapter needed
From: Bhairitu on 10 Aug 2010 14:46 John Navas wrote: > On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:42:15 -0700, in > <c038o.23468$RZ1.22027(a)newsfe24.iad>, Bhairitu <noozguru(a)sbcglobal.net> > wrote: > >> The Internet has become so important to daily life that it needs to be >> in the "commons" like our highways and away the control of the oligarchs. > > More and more countries are coming to see it that way, but don't hold > your breath here, because right-wingers will vigorously oppose anything > so clearly in the public interest. Can you say, "Obamanet"? ;) > Absolutely, right wingers often go against their own best interests. In this case you might remind them their own web sites (out site the Murdoch ones) may become difficult to access if there is an end to net neutrality.
From: John Navas on 10 Aug 2010 15:40 GOOGLE, VERIZON NET PACT HAS 'MANY PROBLEMS' SAYS FCC COMMISH Interests of consumers versus giant corporations If Google and Verizon thought that their "free except when it isn't" internet plan would have smooth sailing through the US Federal Communications Commission, a response by one FCC commissioner should snap them back to reality. "Some will claim this announcement moves the discussion forward," said Michael Copps in a statement (PDF) referencing the Google/Verizon proposal. "That's one of its many problems." Copps didn't detail the "many problems," but the remainer of his statement made it clear that he's firmly on the side of FCC chairman Julius Genachowski's third way plan, which claws back some of the regulatory mojo that the FCC lost when their ability to regulate internet traffic was dope-slapped into near irrelevancy by a federal judge in the Comcast decision. "It is time to move a decision forward � a decision to reassert FCC authority over broadband telecommunications, to guarantee an open Internet now and forever, and to put the interests of consumers in front of the interests of giant corporations," Copps wrote. From Copps' point of view, the battle lines in this tug of war are as clear as the stakes are great. Genachowski, a network neutrality proponent, has two "interests of consumers" allies on the commission: Copps and Mignon Clyburn, both Democrats. And then there are the "interests of giant corporations" commissioners, Robert McDowell and Meredith Baker, both Republicans. MORE: <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/copps_versus_google_and_verizon/> MY COMMENT: Republicans are, as usual, pro-big business and anti-citizen.
From: John Navas on 10 Aug 2010 15:51
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:46:30 -0700, in <b8h8o.52658$3%3.18432(a)newsfe23.iad>, Bhairitu <noozguru(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >John Navas wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:42:15 -0700, in >> <c038o.23468$RZ1.22027(a)newsfe24.iad>, Bhairitu <noozguru(a)sbcglobal.net> >> wrote: >> >>> The Internet has become so important to daily life that it needs to be >>> in the "commons" like our highways and away the control of the oligarchs. >> >> More and more countries are coming to see it that way, but don't hold >> your breath here, because right-wingers will vigorously oppose anything >> so clearly in the public interest. Can you say, "Obamanet"? ;) > >Absolutely, right wingers often go against their own best interests. In >this case you might remind them their own web sites (out site the >Murdoch ones) may become difficult to access if there is an end to net >neutrality. They only go against the best interests of average folks they've duped into supporting them. Their big donors will ensure they get the preferential Internet service. -- John "Assumption is the mother of all screw ups." [Wethern�s Law of Suspended Judgement] |