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The letter stops short of asking the FCC to classify broadband and the internet with common carrier status. Bummer. http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/assets/4422119/lett

• pdkl95 12y ago
  Easy fix - just let the anti-porn faction of the religious-right go after the carriers. If they don't want to be "common carrier", then they can be responsible for the content, too. And no, I don't mean trivialities like copyright that they managed to get immunity from by passing the DMCA. IF they want demonstrate how strongly they control what is allowed through their network, then they must be the responsible party. There is not shortage of stuff on the net that - in the eyes of paranoid parent - "obviously" fails the Miller Test. If Comcast/etc really wants to play hardball, this idea can be extended to include all the child pornography they are surely trafficking. I'm sure they will the strict liability being used in such cases by some judges. There are a lot of reasons to want common carrier status, before you even get into the easy stuff like copyright and "streaming movies", and a giant line of people just waiting for just this kind of opportunity.