SaveTheInternet.com | Defend Free Speech on the Internet The House is pushing a “Resolution of Disapproval†that would strip the FCC of its authority to protect our right to free speech online. If it passes, the FCC would not just be barred from enforcing its already weak Net Neutrality rule, but also from acting in any way to protect Internet users against corporate abuses. We can kill the resolution in the Senate by getting 51 members to stand up for online freedom. Sign this letter to demand that your senators protect our right to an open Internet, and we will deliver it to their offices in Washington.
The FCC does not protect our right to free speech. Keep the government as far away from the internet as possible. Many people want Net Neutrality without realizing there are already laws protecting end users from being abused by ISPs. Anti-trust laws prevent these companies from colluding and blocking packets or slowing service.
The FCC is whats stopping companies from charging more for bandwidth, and limiting and blocking sites. If they lose the right to govern ISP's the ISP's can then do what they want, including blocking sites, like this one
Why would the ISP block this site, or any site? Something tells me the government would be more likely to block this site than an ISP, who is making money off of you running it. I'm uninformed.
It's like this. Net Neutrality disallows ISP providers from favoring content on one site (possibly because the site is part owned by the ISP or pays the ISP more money) than other sites. It has happened, ISPs have tried to end vonage and other VOIP services because many ISPs have stakes in phone companies. There is nothing wrong with this law.
Incorrect. There are already laws regarding this known as anti-trust laws. Network neutrality in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In early 2005, in the Madison River case, the FCC for the first time showed a willingness to enforce its network neutrality principles by opening an investigation about Madison River Communications, a local telephone carrier that was blocking voice over IP service. While it is often thought that the FCC fined Madison River Communications following the investigation, it did not. The investigation was closed before any formal factual or legal finding. Instead, there was a settlement in which the company agreed to stop discriminating against voice over IP traffic and to make a $15,000 payment to the US Treasury in exchange for the FCC dropping its inquiry. Since the FCC did not formally establish that Madison River Communications violated laws and regulation, the Madison River settlement does not create a formal precedent. Nevertheless, the FCC's action established that it would not sit idly by if other US operators discriminated against voice over IP traffic. While wiki says "network neutrality laws" these laws existed already in anti-trust laws that existed long before NN or the FCC.