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FCC-No Protocol Shaping
The FCC has issued a ruling and opinion that Comcast was clearly in the wrong to inspect packets for protocol use like bittorrent and then bork the customers connection. Despite initial indignant denials (PDF) that this was occurring, the FCC looked at the evidence provided by many from outside of Comcast, and found that this was the fact. Will this one little aspect of enforced "net neutrality" stick, or will it be contested at every turn, every protocol, like third party VOIP versus the providers version of same? How long will we keep the net like it is before it turns into a big giant combination cable TV and cellphone plan, with billable minutes for everything, at varied levels for varied useages?
ed.z.: and this is an "ed": And what is the use of high speed connections if they are going to start throwing lowball caps on usage and still keep with the chipping away at protocols? Which is it, the new net will have a lot of uses like video and voice telephony and even video conferencing, the "we the people" folks can really use the dang thing, or you get a few gigs a month and after that it is some stupid lame "plan", and I mean stupid and I mean lame, like they have with all the other profit "plan" pies they have their pudgy little fingers in? And how about all the lies at first? Why do they get a free skate over lying about matters to a big federal commission like that and nothing happens to the liars? I just see this as more business as usual with these huge bloated corporations, no matter what the issue, if they get caught at doing something naughty, immediate lying about it, never fails.
People are talking about the phenomenon of "just too big to fail", I call shenanigans, I think the real question should be "how big should 'we the people' allow these megacorporations to get before we put a cap on them because they get too powerful,greedy and uncaring". If it is too big to fail, or too big to to be whacked down immediately and lose their incorporation charters for outright lying about things like that, it has crossed the line into being just too big to exist, IMO, it's gotten into predatory and abusive levels, the 800 lb rabid gorilla stage, and we've seen from so many examples in the past it never changes them, ever, it just gets worse and worse.