Comments on: FCC Starts Broadband Reclassification Process

By: The Law and Politics of Net Neutrality: Part 1

The Law and Politics of Net Neutrality: Part 1 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:24:02 +0000

[...] has catalyzed a slew of agency and industry actions. Not long after the Comcast decision, the FCC proposed reclassification of broadband Internet to define it as a telecommunications service subject to common carrier regulations but practicing [...]

By: The Future of Broadband Is Here Today – And You’re Going to Miss It

The Future of Broadband Is Here Today – And You’re Going to Miss It — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:01:50 +0000

[...] the FCC explores a third way on a path made needlessly longer by national corporate interests, local markets are delivering [...]

By: The Technoverse | FCC Notice of Inquiry on Broadband Reclassification |

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:17:56 +0000

[...] FCC Starts Broadband Reclassification Process (gigaom.com) [...]

By: Can Your Boss Read Your Txts? | Shelly Palmer - helping you live and work in a digital world

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:34:06 +0000

[...] FCC To Reclassify Broadband: The FCC is beginning a process that will reclassify broadband access to the Internet as a utility - a move which will give the FCC permission to regulate a nationwide broadband network and enforce net neutrality laws. As you can imagine some people are very happy about this, others … not so much. [...]

By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:54:49 +0000

There’s a good story on today’s events at the FCC in the Washington Post’s Post Tech blog today: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/06/reactions_to_fccs_latest_step.html

It’s fair, balanced, and comprehensive.

By: John Thacker

John Thacker — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:51:38 +0000

Federal Communications Law Journal article that is the source of the second quote, about Commissioner Copps’s efforts to extend indecency to DBS through its merger and licensing powers. – http://www03.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/176371767_3.html

By: John Thacker

John Thacker — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:49:46 +0000

“This isn’t an effort to regulate the Internet, but to ensure that someone is making sure we all have equal access to the pipes that make up the Internet.”

That’s funny, because Commissioner Copps, who favors it, says that it is an effort to regulate the Internet. (http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/05/fccs-copps-lets-regulate.ars)

Of course, “as Commissioner Copps suggested in his opinion in Litigation Recovery Trust, the Commission could seek to regulate indecency on DBS [Direct Broadcast Satellite] through its licensing process.” We will be giving the FCC the power to regulate the Internet; the FCC is just promising to use that power wisely. Feel free to trust Commissioner Copps, one of the big proponents of expanding the indecency powers of the FCC to cable television and satellite.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:03:34 +0000

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-06-16-att-data-test_N.htm

interesting timing :)