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Old 04-07-10, 01:43 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie View Post
We don't often agree, but we do on this issue.

The scary part of this is that as it currently stands, the outcomes are very bad for consumers. The ideologues will try to paint this as the big bad gubmint trying to control things on the internet, but they misunderstand the argument.

As it stands now:



But the last laugh may be on the ISPs. The FCC could potentially reclassify them as telecoms, bringing them under the FCC's purview. And that comes with a lot of regulation that the ISPs probably wouldn't like.

Read more here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/fcc-next/
Coulda, woulda, shoulda ...

But they don't.

In any case, it isn't up to the FCC to make those determinations.
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