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-ob...

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.

Good, maybe comcast will finally update those oversaturated interconnects that they engineered to force netflix to pay them for access to their customers.

I don't even think it's HN users. There's a bunch of zero-day accounts in here parroting anti-NN talking points.

Social media personas

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/fe...

http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html

Can you provide a link to the 700 regulations? Can't find one anywhere else.

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?

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.

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.