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FCC Chair Proposes Garbage, Calls it Net Neutrality
FCC Chair Proposes Garbage, Calls it Net Neutrality
By Marvin Ammori: Law Professor/Advocate in Cyberlaw / huffingtonpost.com
Dec 1, 2010

President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in DC of being a "tepid" regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.

The proposal does not meet Obama's campaign promises, or Obama's other agencies' actions, on net neutrality. It is "make-believe net neutrality."

Here are why the proposal is a meaningless gesture:

 

It exempts wireless. Like the Google-Verizon proposal, Julius's makes an artificial distinction between accessing the Internet through a wire and through a wireless connection. No nondiscrimination rule applies to wireless. The Chairman's fig leaf is to ban "blocking" on wireless, but not discrimination. And this ban on blocking applies...
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FCC Chair Proposes Garbage, Calls it Net Neutrality