Quote: (12-17-2017 09:37 PM)Latinopan Wrote:
Quote: (12-17-2017 06:43 AM)Number one bummer Wrote:
Google should just start its own ISP division, they are trying with Google Fiber but is not as easy as they think, building an infrastructure is a different game.
They didn't start their own ISP and are unlikely to do so, but they are now a registry for
several different gTLDs (generic top level domains) and they can also sell addresses with those extensions and allow others to act as registrars (retailers, essentially) for them too. The list of Google-owned extensions ironically includes the .meme gTLD.
None of that has anything to do with net neutrality, but most of the people freaking out about it wouldn't be able to make that distinction.
Cruz and a bunch of others like Newt Gingrich already ran away with the false idea that the US was "giving away the Internet" when there was no such ownership in the first place, only involvement of the US Commerce Department in one aspect. Net neutrality has nothing to do with ownership and control of the Internet either, but if he can throw mud at a few dumb liberals along the way, what the hell I guess.
Quote: (12-17-2017 10:07 PM)ms224 Wrote:
A thought.
Fairness act doctrines, and general FCC regulation of content, originated because there is a limited number of avaliable RF spectrum space.
As we are well aware, its basically been used to push the main narrative and crush anyone in disagreement.
If the avaliability of internet is somehow limited (possibly because there is no reason to invest into infrastructure) and the FCC is given control of the internet.
Whats to stop them from using the same logic to limit the internet?
This is exactly why some people are wondering if the FCC is the right agency to get involved, and if not, can they be brought up to speed versus creating yet another federal bureaucracy with a questionable existence. Again though, none of what's actually in Title 2 or net neutrality itself has anything to do with content, which was what the basis of the "fairness doctrine" was about.
The Fairness Doctrine didn't get very far in the day and age of radio, and considering the expanse of the Internet, there's even less of an already weak argument supporting it now.