government regulating internet?

WASHINGTON—In a move that will stoke a battle over the future of the Internet, the federal government plans to propose regulating broadband lines under decades-old rules designed for traditional phone networks. Link 1 for the full story

Why the FCC will regulate the Internet

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IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation, Mobile, Networking

Government controls over the Internet are not only coming - they're already here. "In the last few years you've seen the beginning of the regulation of the Internet," says Stu Elby, vice president of network architecure and enteprise technologies at Verizon Communications.

As the PSTN folds into the Internet, regulations such as Enhanced 911 and the idea of Universal Service, discussed in Friday's blog, are the tip of the iceberg. As telephony becomes an Internet service, more of the regulatory thicket that now ensnares the PSTN could slide over to the Internet.

As for universal service, Verizon supports the idea, "if it's done fairly." But in an era where every ISP could be a telecommunications company, Verizon doesn't want to be the only one on the hook for universal access. Link 2

They just can't leave their hands out of anything. I guess all that information out there is confusing to Obama.

to regulate loose speech and assistance. the internet has change into the throughway of verbal replace, both solid and undesirable and the loose pass of assistance, both real and faux. It grew to change right into a thanks to fund political activities and applicants. President Obama became the first to embody this technique of funding his marketing campaign and win an election. If the authorities can't administration the internet, it can't administration the actuality or warp or spin the actuality to their desire. on the different hand, it may spin a lie available and we may by no skill understand it. We ought to protect the internet as a lot as we protect our top to freedom of speech and search for for the actuality and be the decide of it, like a jury.

regulating ? not yet . monitoring ? you betcha . under bush's 2007 homegrown radicalization and terrorist act ( sec 1955d ) everything that you search , answer or ask on YA , twitter , fax , IM , text , etc foreign or domestic is saved forever for later use against you . obey .