Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president

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45. The FCC can at any time choose to reclassify broadband as a public utility

As Reported by Mother Jones

....The FCC's proposal would allow some forms of discrimination while preventing companies from slowing down or blocking specific websites, which likely won't satisfy all proponents of net neutrality, the concept that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. The Commission has also decided for now against reclassifying broadband as a public utility, which would subject ISPs to much greater regulation. However, the Commission has left the reclassification option on the table at present.

So Google and Microsoft and Netflix and other large, well-capitalized incumbents will pay for speedy service. Smaller companies that can't—or that ISPs just aren't interested in dealing with—will get whatever plodding service is left for everyone else. ISPs won't be allowed to deliberately slow down traffic from specific sites, but that's about all that's left of net neutrality. Once you've approved the notion of two-tier service, it hardly matters whether you're speeding up some of the sites or slowing down others.

They of course did not reclassify broadband as a public utility specifically to place net neutrality on shaky legal ground. They can still do it and "left it on the table" but CHOSE to not use the solution they all know would work, it's just that the goal is to make money, not to preserve net neutrality.


Transparent as hell really.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/04/net-neutrality-finally-dies-ripe-old-age-of-45