The War Over Network Neutrality Is Lost. The "Net Discrimination" Is On Its Way...
Fresh and interesting article from TechCrunch concerning the decision from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) doesn’t have the authority to require ISPs to treat all traffic equally; more precisely that the FCC does not have the power to regulate how ISPs manage traffic on their networks. JFYI : The “ Network neutrality ” is sometimes called “Internet freedom” or “Internet openness” and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others. It would forbid Comcast from, e.g . blocking Facebook or Bing. "In a decision that could have far-reaching consequences, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down the FCC’s Open Internet Order. That Order, put into force in 2010 by then-chairman Julius Genachowski, was designed to make it so that broadband service providers couldn’t meddle w...