The FCC’s Orwellian Internet policy

[djean111]

7. One thing that has not been mentioned much is that, while the FCC did declare the internet

a utility, it was also decided that regulating how much the providers charge users is soooo last century. That seems a bit ominous. I do like that they declared that a few municipalities can go ahead and crate and provide their own local internet, but wish this had been an across-the-board ruling.

Waiting, of course, to see if and how the TPP will make a lot of these rules and regulations moot - corporations will be able to bypass the entire judicial systems and try cases in their own corporate courts, staffed by corporate lawyers as judges, and hand down either cash awards from taxpayers, or directives to delete or change a law or regulation that affects profits. Currently, this sort of thing happens in a country's court system. The TPP "privatizes" this.