Key
points:
“The
Federal Communication Commission has begun to kill the Internet as
most people know it, adopting proposed rules to create a caste system
allowing the giant Internet service providers to segregate users by
delivery speeds and ability to pay.”
“The
proposed rules now goes to a 120-day comment period, which is bound
to be very confrontational. The vote came as protesters occupied the
FCC’s Washington offices for a week, held protests at 20 FCC
offices around the country, and collected 3.4 million online
signatures to defend an equal-access-to-all Internet, known as 'net
neutrality'.”
“The
activists and entrepreneurs that said that proposed rules drafted by
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and passed by the board would create an
Internet caste system, because the largest companies with the deepest
pockets could essentially buy better content-delivery services and
then gain an unfair advantage over their emerging competition.
Consumers, needles to say, would be forced to pay higher fees with
little or no recourse.”
“Open
Internet advocate, Free Press President Craig Aaron, said that would
be anything but reasonable, instead 'aiding and abetting the largest
ISPs in their efforts to destroy the open Internet' and was 'an
insult to those who care about preserving the open Internet'.”
In
details:
Related:
“Neoliberal dictatorship will try to erase the
independent voice of public broadcasters in Europe - through the
Greek experiment - and dictate a Too Big to Fail model for the
largest private media, following the same pattern applied on the
banking sector, in order to erase the independent information in
maximum degree. The next big step will be to find a way to control
the independent Internet information, in order to complete its
domination.”
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