Enjoy the last free night
From
savetheinternet.com:
Obama FCC Caves on Net Neutrality; Tuesday Betrayal Assured
Late Monday, a majority of the FCC's commissioners indicated that they're going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule.
According to all reports, the rule, which will be voted on during tomorrow's FCC meeting, falls drastically short of earlier pledges by President Obama and the FCC Chairman to protect the free and open Internet.
The rule is so riddled with loopholes that it's become clear that this FCC chairman crafted it with the sole purpose of winning the endorsement of AT&T and cable lobbyists, and not defending the interests of the tens of millions of Internet users.
Like I said
yesterday, when Chavez signed his own "Net Neutrality" law, in the stroke of his pen, he created a new hacker elite.
If this goes through in the USA, we will see a huge return of the original hacker culture. Not the stupid script kiddies living in their mom's basement but the real hackers.
Time to make some popcorn and sit back and watch the FCC try to regulate something as complex and devious as Stuxnet but targeting the Internet -- the goal? Make it open. Routers have exploits too...
More at
Yahoo/Associated Press:
FCC poised to adopt network neutrality rules
New rules aimed at prohibiting broadband providers from becoming gatekeepers of Internet traffic now have just enough votes to pass the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday.
And from
The Hill:
Democrats put heat on FCC commissioner on net-neutrality vote
The Democrats have a message for FCC Commissioner Michael Copps: Don't screw things up on net neutrality.
Democrats allied with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski are working to put public pressure on Copps � also a Democrat � as the net-neutrality vote draws near.
Genachowski needs Copps to vote for his plan during a commission meeting on Tuesday if the rules are to pass.
With the money quote:
"Voting no�would be snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory and would be giving the Republicans a huge win," the source said.
Fscking partisan politics -- these morons are supposed to be representing US but they are playing little games of "hi hit me first" on our dime. I seriously do not give a shit what party is in office -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an awesome president. People forget that Dr. Martin Luther King was a staunch Republican and that the people that protested the end of slavery and were involved in groups like KKK were generally Democrats.
There are pond scum and diamonds on both sides of the aisle. We need to return to a representative government with none of the
gimme mine! bullshit that pervades Washington these days.
Posted by DaveH at December 20, 2010 8:27 PM