Great news everybody.... I hope.
FCC chairman to cable companies: forcing some net traffic into a slow lane will not be permitted
http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/30/fcc-chairman-to-cable-companies-forcing-some-net-traffic-into-a via Engadget Android
This gives me a bit of hope.
I will believe it when I see it passed.
seriously.
more good news?
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/04/state-laws-that-ban-municipal-internet-will-be-invalidated-fcc-chair-says/
I believe it to be smoke and mirrors. Comcast has already relegated ALL p2p traffic to the slow lane, and the FCC sued them over it and lost after a multi-year court battle: http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/10/comcast-to-employees-talking-about-blocking-p2p-can-get-you-fired/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/verizon-sues-to-halt-fccs-net-neutrality-rules/
Let's also not forget the FCC gave the wireless industry a free pass when AT&T was literally picking winners and losers with apps (it didnt want anyone to use facetime on its data network for fear it would replace phone calling because facetime was too good) http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/att-facetime-fcc/
Think data is data and you can do what you want with data? Think again.
In these cases the court has said you must reclassify to impose rules. So if Wheeler is creating a rule set, again, the only way it would stand is if no one sued him to take down the rules. Which by definition is lip service, is it not?
Any rich lawyers out there and want go reverse-nelson on this? What I mean by that is that perhaps with your help, when wheeler imposes this third set of 'rules' (likely to be so watered down and ineffective no one would sue to stop them in the first place) that we actually go ahead and sue. Perhaps we could get them to reclassify that way by suing to point out how absurd it all is.
the only power the FCC has is to reclassify. Everything else is just re-arranging deck chairs.
Sure does look more and more like corruption instead of incompetence I'm sad to say...
Do you think thy will start to slow down vpn's?
Without a doubt, but it will take some time before that happens.
Do you think there will be any retaliation when and if they go after VPNs? And do you think retaliation is the right response? I am not sure if it would help but what do you think?
I think it will be sometime before they go after VPN traffic, corporations themselves rely on encryption service to.
If the technicians they rely on to fix and maintain their networks were to sit down and say no more. We might be able to make someone take notice.
Atlas shrug baby.