The Black Agenda report on the Court Ruling Re: the Internet:

[truedelphi]

Link to article:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/us-court-appeals-internet-plantation-comcast-verizon-att-its-masters

Article by Bruce A. Dixon
US Court of Appeals: The Internet is a Plantation, With Comcast, Verizon, AT&T Its Masters
(and us users as the slaves)

From the article:

This is one of those ground breaking, those earth shaking moments that reveal how capitalism works, how greedy corporations have captured the media, the courts and the other two bipartisan branches of government in these United States. This ruling is anything but a surprise. It's what the telecom companies have demanded for years, and what the administrations of President Bush and Obama alike seem determined to give them.

President Obama did campaign declaring he would take a back seat to nobody in fighting for network neutrality. The White House has occasionally, though increasingly feebly renewed that pledge. But Obama's first FCC chief was Julius Genakowski, a former telecom lobbyist who wrote the 1990s laws privatizing the internet backbone, which was built with taxpayer dollars, giving it to telecom companies like Comcast and AT&T for pennies on the dollar.

Under this notorious privatizer, the FCC did almost nothing to assert the public right, to advance the public demand for a free and open internet, to head off this disastrous ruling of corporate rights over public property which was clearly in the pipeline. It's not the first time this or any president or Congress has campaigned on the public interest, but governed in the corporate interest, and telecom companies are always big campaign contributors.
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For more and ongoing information on how to preserve the limited degree of internet freedom we now have, visit the web site of Free Press, at freepress.net. (That freepress.net.) Sign on to their alert list and let the White House and the FCC know that the internet cannot be a plantation, and you are not a serf.

For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Bruce Dixon. Find us on the web at www.blackagendareport.com.

[KoKo]

1. Damned Correct...Thanks Bruce Dixon!

Recommend!

Under this notorious privatizer, the FCC did almost nothing to assert the public right, to advance the public demand for a free and open internet, to head off this disastrous ruling of corporate rights over public property which was clearly in the pipeline. It's not the first time this or any president or Congress has campaigned on the public interest, but governed in the corporate interest, and telecom companies are always big campaign contributors.

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[msanthrope]

4. Kindly cite the FCC filing that you think the source was referencing? nt

[Enthusiast]

2. This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

[msanthrope]

3. Black Agenda Report are racists, and poor legal reporters.

Can't you find a legal source that at least discusses the rulings, and provides links to them?

[truedelphi]

5. Here are two links. But first a moment of self indulgence:

BwahahahahA!!

if I had chosen any other news agency, I might have heard that you can't trust a news agency that is run by mostly white, patrician, racists. Instead I chose a group of reporters beloved by many of us FDR-styled Progressives. Black agenda report says what others of us can't say - in part they can take liberties as due to the nature of their skin color, how can they be considered racist (or so thought I, naively 24 hours ago.)

Now here are the links. Link one, from Bloomberg, tells the in's and out's of the court's recent FCC/Verizon ruling. Link two lets you know what we consumers will be seeing, perhaps, in terms of rates:
Link One:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-14/verizon-wins-net-neutrality-court-ruling-against-fcc.html
Snipped from the above article:

Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) won an appeals court challenge to U.S. equal treatment rules for the Internet that could leave companies such as Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. facing higher charges for the fastest service.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today sent the rules governing what’s known as net neutrality back to the Federal Communications Commission, saying the agency overreached in barring broadband providers from slowing or blocking selected Web traffic. The FCC rules, which the agency may attempt to rewrite, required high-speed Internet providers that use fiber- optic or other cable to treat all traffic equally and disclose their network practices.

U.S. Circuit Judge David Tatel, writing for a three-judge panel, said that while the FCC has the power to regulate Verizon and other broadband companies, it chose the wrong legal framework for its open-Internet regulations.

Link Two:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/net-neutrality-gone_n_4611477.html