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This is what scares me, what was there to hide?

ubernostrum 12y ago
There isn't. Everything gets published. The vote on the rule change came after a public comment period. This thread is just full of HN's intellectually-challenged users waving their hands and saying "ooooOOOOoooo GOVERNMENT! SCARY GOVERNMENT! BE AFRAID OF SCARY GOVERNMENT! ooooOOOOoooo!"
- ForHackernews 12y ago
  I don't even think it's HN users. There's a bunch of zero-day accounts in here parroting anti-NN talking points.
- TallGuyShort 12y ago
  Can you provide a link to the 700 regulations? Can't find one anywhere else.
  - ForHackernews 12y ago
    The full regulations should be published within the next few days. They won't go into effect immediately, and the public (and Congress) will certainly get to comment, and suggest revisions.
  - TallGuyShort 12y ago
    Holy hell - why the down votes? "Everything is public" made it sound like the regulations had been published. I just wanted to know where. What's wrong with asking for a citation?
    - supergeek133 12y ago
      I'm with you, it's like asking for the ability to read something is blasphemous. Never did either of us say we were against it, but the flood of downvotes. Oh my.
- at-fates-hands 12y ago
  So this doesn't scare you at all? The plan gives a Washington bureaucracy a blank check to decide how Internet service providers deploy and manage their networks, from the last mile all the way through the Internet backbone. Take interconnection as just one example. The plan states that the FCC can determine when a broadband provider must establish physical interconnection points, where they must locate those points, how much they can charge for the provision of that infrastructure, and how they will route traffic over those connections. That is anything but light touch regulation. And the plan extends the FCC’s interventionist gaze well beyond this part of the network. Small wonder that some pro-regulation activists are already deeming the FCC the “Department of the Internet. http://www.fcc.gov/document/comm-pai-press-stmt-president-obamas-plan-regulate-internet http://www.fcc.gov/document/comm-pai-press-stmt-president-ob...
  - ubernostrum 12y ago
    Doesn't scare me a bit, because I know the secret formula. Every night after I brush my teeth, I stand in front of the mirror and yell "LIBERAL FARTBONGO OBUMMER" five times; that magic incantation keeps the black helicopters from coming to force me to use the internet the way they want me to, and also protects my guns and repeals the entire income tax code.
  - NickNameNick 12y ago
    Good, maybe comcast will finally update those oversaturated interconnects that they engineered to force netflix to pay them for access to their customers.
- 011100000110010 12y ago
  Social media personas http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/feb/23/need-to-protect-internet-from-astroturfing http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/fe... http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html

There isn't. Everything gets published. The vote on the rule change came after a public comment period. This thread is just full of HN's intellectually-challenged users waving their hands and saying "ooooOOOOoooo GOVERNMENT! SCARY GOVERNMENT! BE AFRAID OF SCARY GOVERNMENT! ooooOOOOoooo!"

ForHackernews 12y ago
I don't even think it's HN users. There's a bunch of zero-day accounts in here parroting anti-NN talking points.
TallGuyShort 12y ago
Can you provide a link to the 700 regulations? Can't find one anywhere else.
- ForHackernews 12y ago
  The full regulations should be published within the next few days. They won't go into effect immediately, and the public (and Congress) will certainly get to comment, and suggest revisions.
- TallGuyShort 12y ago
  Holy hell - why the down votes? "Everything is public" made it sound like the regulations had been published. I just wanted to know where. What's wrong with asking for a citation?
  - supergeek133 12y ago
    I'm with you, it's like asking for the ability to read something is blasphemous. Never did either of us say we were against it, but the flood of downvotes. Oh my.
at-fates-hands 12y ago
So this doesn't scare you at all? The plan gives a Washington bureaucracy a blank check to decide how Internet service providers deploy and manage their networks, from the last mile all the way through the Internet backbone. Take interconnection as just one example. The plan states that the FCC can determine when a broadband provider must establish physical interconnection points, where they must locate those points, how much they can charge for the provision of that infrastructure, and how they will route traffic over those connections. That is anything but light touch regulation. And the plan extends the FCC’s interventionist gaze well beyond this part of the network. Small wonder that some pro-regulation activists are already deeming the FCC the “Department of the Internet. http://www.fcc.gov/document/comm-pai-press-stmt-president-obamas-plan-regulate-internet http://www.fcc.gov/document/comm-pai-press-stmt-president-ob...
- ubernostrum 12y ago
  Doesn't scare me a bit, because I know the secret formula. Every night after I brush my teeth, I stand in front of the mirror and yell "LIBERAL FARTBONGO OBUMMER" five times; that magic incantation keeps the black helicopters from coming to force me to use the internet the way they want me to, and also protects my guns and repeals the entire income tax code.
- NickNameNick 12y ago
  Good, maybe comcast will finally update those oversaturated interconnects that they engineered to force netflix to pay them for access to their customers.
011100000110010 12y ago
Social media personas http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/feb/23/need-to-protect-internet-from-astroturfing http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/fe... http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html