All Things Net Neutrality

[Dirtbag59]

FCC Republican says net neutrality rules too “onerous� for ISPs | Ars Technica

There is not enough Valium in the world.

There should be no rules until there's "evidence of an actual problem."

AT&T Blocking FaceTime | Free Press

Bandwidth throttling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 2007, Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the Federal Communications Commission filed a complaint against Comcast’s Internet service. Several subscribers claimed that the company was interfering with their use of peer-to-peer networking applications. The Commission stated that it had jurisdiction over Comcast’s network management practices and that it could resolve the dispute through negotiation rather than through rulemaking. The Commission believed that Comcast had “significantly impeded consumers’ ability to access the content and use the applications of their choice”, and that because Comcast “ha[d] several available options it could use to manage network traffic without discriminating” against peer-to-peer communications, its method of bandwidth management “contravene[d]...federal policy”. At this time, “Comcast had already agreed to adopt a new system for managing bandwidth demand, the Commission simply ordered it to make a set of disclosures describing the details of its new approach and the company’s progress toward implementing it”. Comcast complied with this Order but petitioned for a review and presented several objections.[7]

“Our party has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That’s why everything I’ll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs.”
-Mitt Romney during 2012 Presidential Election

I'm sure that allowing a handful of ISP's to charge for "fast lane" read 'normal speed' access is going to be great for tech start ups.