FCC and the internet

Douglas Pollard dougpol1 at verizon.net
Wed Oct 21 17:23:40 BST 2009


John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>   
>>  What is Net Neutrality,
>>     
>
> Let me google that for you:
>    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Net+Neutrality
>
> This will give you a list of sites that will give you a more thorough
> answer than I could provide.
>
>   
>> is an opinionated e-mail a
>> violation of such a doctrine??
>>     
>
> No but using deep packet filtering to censor opinionated e-mails may
> be a violation of Net Neutrality. Turns out Net Neutrality has more to
> do with prohibiting ISPs from censoring, rather than requiring them
> from doing so. While governments have made numerous attempts to censor
> the internet, this doesn't appear to be one of them.
>
>   
The net will now be under a regulatory agency and they they have the 
means to censure anything they want.
                                                                         
                                                                        
               Doug



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