[olug] could be good, could be bad

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todd&abe: my understanding as well.

to further complicate things, everyone has their own ideal of what exactly
"net-neutrality" is.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Abraham Serafino <abrahams at teknohazard.com
> wrote:

> Todd, that's what I understood too. Spokespeople from the FCC said that the
> courts left the door open to Net Neutrality-like legislation. [sitation
> needed]
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Todd Christopher Hamilton <
> netarttodd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From my understanding, the court ruling only stated that the FCC does not
> > have the authority because Congress did not grant them authority. That is
> > different than stating the constitution limits the federal government
> from
> > regulating the internet.  Is my understanding correct?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/23/2010 9:58 AM, Jordan Fox wrote:
> >
> >> Net neutrality never became law.  Moreover, within the past month or
> >> so, courts ruled in Comcast's favor that the FCC doesn't have the
> >> authority to regulate internet usage.  Thus, the cable/internet
> >> companies can throttle/block any traffic they desire.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/06/fcc-loses-key-ruling-internet-neutrality/
> >>
> >>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR2010040802554.html
> >>
> >> Jordan
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Luke-Jr<luke at dashjr.org>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Friday 23 April 2010 09:40:01 am you wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> If the ACTA passes, there is more responsibility for the ISP to stop
> >>>> piracy. I'd rather see Usenet get dropped rather than see a whole slew
> >>>> of
> >>>> ports blocked, throttling, blocking all P2P, etc.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> What happened to that net neutrality talk? Isn't the whole point to
> make
> >>> it
> >>> illegal for ISPs to block/throttle ports or mess with our traffic?
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