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It's not a new set of laws. It's the same set of rules that have been imposed on telephone companies and other utility providers for decades. It's a set of rule
by dangerlibrary 12y ago
It's not a new set of laws. It's the same set of rules that have been imposed on telephone companies and other utility providers for decades. It's a set of rules that the FCC already has the legal authority to impose. The google-able term is "common carrier".
- grimtrigger 12y agoIs that really an apt comparison? I assume the infrastructure for telephone companies in entirely different than the infrastructure for ISPs. Namely: that the variation in data that goes through phone companies is entirely different than the type that goes through ISPs.
- dangerlibrary 12y agoYou might not know it, but in asking me this question, you are asking me if I think that ISPs are telecommunications services. Yes, I think that ISPs are telecommunications services. Ask AT&T what kind of spiky demand for phone bandwidth they see during and immediately after a hurricane, or on Mother's Day.
- shard972 12y agoWhat about the danger of re-classifying internet services such as google as a common-carrier?