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Re:The Net Neutrality Hysteria by dangerlibrary on Thursday May 22, 2014 @11:15PM (#7787800)
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".
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Re:The Net Neutrality Hysteria by grimtrigger on Thursday May 22, 2014 @11:27PM (#7787832)
Is 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.
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Re:The Net Neutrality Hysteria by dangerlibrary on Thursday May 22, 2014 @11:34PM (#7787850)
You 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.

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Re:The Net Neutrality Hysteria by shard972 on Sunday May 25, 2014 @11:59PM (#7798637)
What about the danger of re-classifying internet services such as google as a common-carrier?
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