FCC Respect++
About god damn time:
FCC orders Comcast to modify network management
In a precedent-setting decision, the five-member Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to uphold a complaint accusing Comcast of violating the FCC's open-Internet principles by improperly hindering peer-to-peer traffic.
"Subscribers should be able to go where they want, when they want, and generally use the Internet in any legal means," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement.
Comcast said it was disappointed by the decision and was considering all its "legal options."
The ruling by the FCC does not include any fines against Comcast. But it requires the company to cease impeding peer-to-peer applications, to tell the FCC how the practice has been used, and to notify customers about other network management practices it adopts in the future.
I'm just gratified to see the .gov doing it's actual job, which is acting in the public interest. Net neutrality may have a future after all, if the FCC stands by principles like these.
FCC orders Comcast to modify network management
In a precedent-setting decision, the five-member Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to uphold a complaint accusing Comcast of violating the FCC's open-Internet principles by improperly hindering peer-to-peer traffic.
"Subscribers should be able to go where they want, when they want, and generally use the Internet in any legal means," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement.
Comcast said it was disappointed by the decision and was considering all its "legal options."
The ruling by the FCC does not include any fines against Comcast. But it requires the company to cease impeding peer-to-peer applications, to tell the FCC how the practice has been used, and to notify customers about other network management practices it adopts in the future.
I'm just gratified to see the .gov doing it's actual job, which is acting in the public interest. Net neutrality may have a future after all, if the FCC stands by principles like these.