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Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joe mcguckin)
Fri Apr 9 17:24:44 2010

From: joe mcguckin <joe@via.net>
In-Reply-To: <1E8B940C5E21014AB8BE70B975D40EDB03957DBA@bert.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:22:38 -0700
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Let me see if I understand this correctly.

People are defending the FCC?

The same FCC that ruled that any data service over 200Kbits was =
broadband, not "Information Service" and thus came under the purview of=20=

the FBI and CALEA - directly contravening the language and intent of the =
CALEA act?

Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just your enemy.


Joe McGuckin
ViaNet Communications

joe@via.net
650-207-0372 cell
650-213-1302 office
650-969-2124 fax



On Apr 9, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Rod Beck wrote:

> In Europe you rarely encounter courts circumscribing regulatory power.=20=

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> And it is well known that the District Court is dominated by =
anti-regulatory judges. =20
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Holstein [mailto:michael.holstein@csuohio.edu]
> Sent: Tue 4/6/2010 7:40 PM
> To: Patrick W. Gilmore
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring =
Comcast
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>> =
<http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/90747-fcc-dealt-major=
-blow-in-net-neutrality-ruling-favoring-comcast>
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>> Seems on-topic, even though policy related.
>>=20



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