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Here are some links provided by Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com,
who is opposed to the Net Neutrality laws.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/12/the-fccs-new-internet-rules-put-the-fcc">http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/12/the-fccs-new-internet-rules-put-the-fcc</a><br>
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...The regulations include a subjective catchall provision,
requiring ‘just and reasonable’ conduct.”
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<p>What counts as ‘just and reasonable’ will, naturally, be up to
the whims of the FCC.</p>
<p>In some ways, this is the worst part of the agency’s net
neutrality push: It’s not even that it puts in place bad rules;
it’s that it installs potentially strict but ultimately <em>vague</em>
rules, and leaves the FCC as the final arbiter of what is and
isn’t acceptable, with little to constrain its decisions. The FCC
will have some guidelines, of course, but Wheeler’s book-length
bureaucratic proposal will surely provide legal ammunition for
whatever creative interpretation the agency settles on (or
desires) at any given time.<br>
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<p>And from over a year later:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redstate.com/setonmotley/2016/08/01/obamacare-net-neutrality-exactly-damage-opponents-predicted/">http://www.redstate.com/setonmotley/2016/08/01/obamacare-net-neutrality-exactly-damage-opponents-predicted/</a><br>
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<p>And Net Neutrality? The government has imposed on the Internet <a
href="http://www.hngn.com/articles/47776/20141103/net-neutrality-fcc-reclassifies-broadband-internet-to-retail-and-back-end.htm"
target="_blank">1934 law written to regulate a landline
telephone monopoly</a>. Of course, if you regulate an
uber-vibrant, multi-provider sector under monopoly law – you’ll
end up with a monopoly. Killing off one provider after another –
until but one remains. And for Net Neutrality proponents – that
provider isn’t even a private company. <a
href="http://mediafreedom.org/yep-they-said-it/" target="_blank">It’s
government</a>:</p>
<p><em>“At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to
completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are
not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of
the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to
divest them from control.”<br>
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<pre wrap=""><div class="moz-txt-sig">Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:36:52 -0600
From: Paul McNary <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pmcnary@cameron.net"><pmcnary@cameron.net></a>
To: Fairlight <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fairlite@fairlite.com"><fairlite@fairlite.com></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>
Subject: Re: OT: Net Neutrality
Message-ID: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cff07a7e-c048-8543-a37c-c52cd23fc865@cameron.net"><cff07a7e-c048-8543-a37c-c52cd23fc865@cameron.net></a>
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Hello Mark
I will try to find something. The 400 page document has a lot but it the
additional
implementation in rule-making, ie how the fcc rule-making (bureaucratic law)
is implemented.
The equipment is not magic. Like you, I don't have any free time and usually
I don't debate things as much as I used to. The 'devil' is in the
details and in the
rule making that gets implemented. IANAL, so I depend on my lawyer and
WISPA's
general council and members that work the efforts on our behalf in D.C,
that is in daily contact with the FCC commissioners and staff as well as
our elected
officials. You probably won't hear much out of me on this subject, I am not
a boot on the ground. Just wanted to let people know that there is a counter
viewpoint that people need to at least look at. I will always accept the
fact that your view is vital to make our system work and I will defend
your right
to express that.
Take care
Paul
On 1/24/2017 9:23 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Apparently -nobody- is reporting on any reports required, because so far I
can't find what you're referencing. Unfortunately, I don't have the free
time to read a 400 page law.
Can you cite either a source which openly discusses it, or a specific
clause with a specific statute reference code?
I just tried searching for it, and even CNET's distillation (which is
larger than most) didn't evoke any negative connotations.
I'm friends with the GM of a local ISP (the same one Bob Stockler used
since he came online, until he passed). I've never heard the GM say
anything negative about NN. I've never asked directly, but I've never even
heard rumblings.
I'd earnestly love to know what magic hardware you feel is required.
Having been the sole admin of an ISP for 2.5 years in the late 90s into the
early 2000s, I'm conversant with the hardships of running an ISP in that
era, although I grant a lot of things have likely changed with the tech.
Realistically, -small- ISPs are dying, though. As broadband penetrates
further and further, they're either dying, or they're reselling the big
boys' networks. Aforementioned local ISP resells AT&T DSL circuits.
I'm always willing to consider alternative evidence and change my opinion
as necessary. However, until I see a specific statute clause reference and
read it, I can't tell it even exists, and there's nothing to reconsider.
Right now, it's your word against everything we've been reading for the
last half-decade. I'm happy to hear specifics, though.
mark-></pre>
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