Net Neutrality Dies
 

As of yesterday, the surpreme court ruled that the FCC can no longer keep independent internet companies from restricting the material they allow for free viewing.

Net Neutrality is no longer a reality.

Links and news reports to come, but basically, the last free realm in existence has been shot down.

Dont we want them to no restrict what we can view?

They can no longer PREVENT restriction.

"can no longer keep independent internet companies from restricting"

This blows. I knew the Supreme Court was leaning anti-big govt. But this blows. I think I'm going to go cry now. :(


Edit:

VVV Only if a number of them die from being too old, fat, and rich. VVV

So, any one of these days, we'll start getting slow down to certain sites, as well as the knowledge that some rich people get richer; Unless I missed something?

The supreme court can always create a law against this later on though, right?

It's not really that surprising an outcome considering the current makeup of the court. I'd be interested to see what the vote was as a 6/3 or 7/2 vote in favor wouldn't even be surprising as even the ostensibly "liberal" justices have a heavily pro-corporate bent to their rulings.

The supreme court interprets laws, it doesn't make them. If at some future point the composition of the court were to change then they could indeed take a similar case and reverse the current court's ruling but there's a long chain of ifs between here and there.

Past that, depending on what exactly the terms of the ruling are, Congress possibly could pass a law to re-enact neutrality provisions. Although you'd need to actually get the law through Congress, and then get it past the President.

Further investigation has revealed this to be a clever prank by my asshole of a brother.

If i stop posting soon after this it will be because I am being charged with 1st degree murder. You'll know its me when you hear about it on the news when an 18 year old is stabbed to death using a shard of broken glass in his own living room.

Also please delete this thread as it serves no useful purpose.

I am finding nothing about this online. Absolutely nothing, save for a small article tangetally relating Network Neutrality to the Fairness Doctrine of yore.

EDIT: And in my idle time of double searching, five people posted, including the explination as to why it wasn't online. Bah.

Hah, so all that anti-Supreme Court ranting and raving and this wasn't even true?
Bummer. I was looking forward to shouting some obscenities at Scalia myself. =(

You can help me shout obscenities at Seth's brother. :shifty: