Comcast KOs the FCC

The FCC was established in 1934 to regulate telecommunications in America. After years of fighting for the Internet to be unregulated, the FCC was taken to federal court after attempting to force Comcast to allow its Internet subscribers unlimited broadband speed, regardless of their bandwidth use. Comcast won the appellate decision and scored the first blow in a fight that may define a generation. How open should the internet be? Casey Rae Hunter from the Future of Music Coalition is in studio to discuss the case.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Alyona
• alyona Minkovski
• The alyona show
• future of music coalition
• casey rae hunter
• fcc vs. Comcast
• comcasat legal battle
• net neutrality
• Comcast appeal
• open internet
• internet regulation
• fcc regulation
• 4/7/2010

[InMooseWeTrust]

@gyrfalcon Most monopolies (Comcast included) are monopolies because of the predatory regulatory system that puts significant barriers to entry.

[hellodoo]

Oh god I just switched to Comcast 2 weeks ago..

[geitepung]

@Orisha1990

The FCC(federal cunt club) is everywhere. They bleep out comedians, they silence raidio jocks and they decide what you can listen to and what you can say. I am not being a troll when I say that anyone who works for the fcc should take a bullet to their fuckign heads. I fuckig HATE the fcc, theyre the new age fucking Nazis and they should die on a fucking bon fire.

[JTucker3]

Broadband in 2010?

Broadband is so 1995, Sweden had fiber in 1999.:P

[bigcasey1995]

I had comcast for about 4 years, The only thing that sucks is the tv cause the box keeps fucking freezing, But my internet is awesome, fast, and i'm still free to Rome the HOLE internet.

[marvelstryfe]

youtube.com/watch?v=7gmvGyg82D­Q&feature=feedf



[VideoGameBloggr]

Awesome. The people running our country don't think that we should have the right to the speed we pay for.

I'm going to start an ISP, offer 1Gbps download and upload speeds but I'm going to cap every single web site so you can only access it at 56Kbps. It's okay according to the people running America. Stupid stupid stupid.

[Orisha1990]

Isnt the fcc the same guys who bleep stand up comedians? which pretty much makes me change the channel late at night because that pretty much makes the whole act a stand bleep at comedy central well i dont want the same morons controlling my internet thank you very much.

[TheMWGriffin]

@InMooseWeTrust That is not true. At all. If the FCC wins, then we can remain the way we are, accessing any site or resource at the same rate. If comcast wins, then you can kiss goodbye to accessing all sites at the same speed. If comcast wins, then you can kiss goodbye to the freedom that the internet allows. Forget about all of the other stuff that the FCC does that's stupid, they are in favor of keeping the internet open with equal access to everyone. The telecoms are not. Seriously.

[InMooseWeTrust]

If the FCC had won, it would just prey on more people. So instead of federal regulators taking away your freedom, you have big corporations taking away your freedom. Choose your poison.