FCC chief: Critics 'flat out wrong'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler pushed back aggressively on reports that he is scrapping the agency's net neutrality rules.

On Thursday, Wheeler will propose new net neutrality rules to replace the ones struck down by a federal court earlier this year. Before they were struck down, the rules kept Internet providers like Verizon and Comcast from blocking or slowing access to certain websites.

"There are reports that the FCC is gutting the Open Internet rule. They are flat out wrong," he said in a statement late on Wednesday.

Wheeler's remarks came after reports that the agency would be allowing Internet content companies like Netflix to pay Internet providers more for better access to subscribers.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204247-fcc-chief-defends-new-net-neutrality-proposal

[onehandle]

1. I won't believe anything until our Comcast overlords tell me what to think. nt

[djean111]

2. Who wants to bet that "Net Neutrality" has been redefined.......

[daleanime]

3. in order to be more 'profitable'.

[GoneFishin]

5. Yeah, to mean that internet fast lanes are equally for sale to everyone.

[Helen Borg]

4. They gave me enough money to change my mind on this...

...

[octoberlib]

6. From Tim Wu, ex-senior advisor to the Federal Trade Commission under Obama

Late last night Wheeler released a statement accusing the Wall Street Journal of being “flat-out wrong.” Yet the Washington Post has confirmed, based on inside sources, that the new rule gives broadband providers “the ability to enter into individual negotiations with content providers … in a commercially reasonable matter.” That’s telecom-speak for payola payments, and a clear violation of Obama’s promise.


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/04/the-end-of-net-neutrality.html?mobify=0

[PopeOxycontinI]

7. Check out the FCC's blog

http://www.fcc.gov/blog/setting-record-straight-fcc-s-open-internet-rules

From the end:

To be clear, this is what the Notice will propose:

That all ISPs must transparently disclose to their subscribers and users all relevant information as to the policies that govern their network;
That no legal content may be blocked; and
That ISPs may not act in a commercially unreasonable manner to harm the Internet, including favoring the traffic from an affiliated entity.

So, providers may not favor traffic from an affiliated entity...so I guess that leaves just enough room to favor traffic from a paying but UNaffiliated entity.

Fucking weasels.

[Doctor_J]

8. Well, we know he's a crook. Exposing himself as a liar doesn't really surprise me

[Doctor_J]

9. Our internet will be just like our health care and schools

highest prices, lowest quality in the developed world.

[otherone]

11. agreed

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[blkmusclmachine]

10. Toll road for the intertoobs