Comments on: Tech at Night: Barack Obama covering for Lieberman-Collins power grab via CISPA opposition, Darrell Issa does good on Transparency

By: Neil Stevens

Neil Stevens — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:35:10 +0000

Net Neutrality, as passed (illegally) by the FCC in their Open Internet regulations, is a scheme to limit ISPs from offering differential forms of service, and innovative ways to cut costs by offering special deals on cheaper data for bundled service.

At the root of it, it’s a push by Internet-based firms like Netflix and Google to get their users data subsidized by all the grandmothers online who use very tiny amounts of data on email, web browsing, etc.

The radicals jumped on board because it was a power grab that was a pretext to increase the power of the FCC over the Internet, against the bipartisan Telecommunications Act 1996 that mandated a light touch for Internet regulation.

By: synergist777

synergist777 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:14:52 +0000

I want to verify that it’s a genuine question. I had thought that the idea of Net Neutrality was that data traveling through the Internet cannot be altered, censored or given preferential or disadvantageous treatment based on its origin or content, except at the origination point or by the end recipient (with minor exceptions based on exceptional considerations such as malware). The article you mentioned referred to source/content neutral limitations on the Internet. Or perhaps proponents of government control over private property conflating Net Neutrality with government enforced no-cost-to-the-user access to the Internet? To my mind, at least, they are very different entities.

Bart

By: Neil Stevens

Neil Stevens — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:39:28 +0000

FBI has suggested a private organization who can help. FBI is just sharing information on their discovery.

By: bobvious

bobvious — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:04:59 +0000

Your link http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911
contained under the text…

everyone may want to check into this account by the FBI

I can’t open using two browsers. Can you fix this?

You really want the FBI to scan our computers? Why can’t the private sector look after my personal cyber security? I should let the government do this?