Losing the Internet as We Know It

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Posted on Tue, Apr. 6, 2010


US court rules against FCC on `net neutrality'

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

Tuesday's ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a big victory for Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable company. It had challenged the FCC's authority to impose so called "net neutrality" obligations.

It marks a serious setback for the FCC, which needs authority to regulate the Internet in order to push ahead with key parts of its massive national broadband plan.

[Uncle $cam]

So the courts are telling the FCC how to handle or direct communications, after how many decades of FCC authority over the telephone communications? And broadband is different how?