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Activist groups stung by the U.S. Court Of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s smackdown of the FCC’s BitTorrent decision wasted no time trying to leverage it into civic action and funds.
Free Press sent out an e-mail Wednesday (April 7) with a form letter to the FCC commissioners saying the FCC “must reclassify broadband as a “telecommunications service” so that it can keep the Internet open and free of corporate gatekeepers.”
The court said the commission had not justified the ancillary authority it asserted in finding Comcast in violation of its network neutrality guidelines, which accompanied its decision under former chairmen to classify broadband as a more lightly regulated Title I information service.
Public Knowledge, whose complaint at the FCC about Comcast’s impeding of BitTorrent’s peer-to-peer traffic helped generate the FCC order, sent out an e-mail asking for funds. “The big telephone and cable companies may have won this battle but they have yet to win the war,” the e-mail said, adding “the big ISPs will spare no expense in fighting our attempts to ensure that broadband Internet is properly regulated. In this fight, we’re going to need all the help we can get. CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE NOW.”
Donations of at least $75 earn premiums including a pair of “cut the cord” scissors and a pair of “series of tubes” tube socks, a reference to the now infamous description of the ‘net by former Senator Ted Stevens.
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it had principles and would "Do No Evil"..Either Google has done a rmaerkably horrifying reverse-180 in recent times or I'm seriously beginning to think it was all elaborately staged all along.. Now we have Eric Schmidt openly stating that "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."... and just days ago he remarked "true transparency and no anonymity" is the way forward for the internet: "In a world of asynchronous threats it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it." Compare the first paragraph and contrast it with the second.. This is duplicity and deception at its very best. Instead of standing up for consumers Google has caved in to big government in the name of profit ("Do No Evil", yeah right..) and basically will do whatever 'Governments will demand'..It does make it all the more hypocritical the whole so-called "censorship" ordeal Google faced with China a while back.. I guess like with "Openness", and with "Neutrality", Google also picks and chooses when it wants to follow the law and which nation's "legality" it wants to abide by. Instead of gracefully bowing out (Google can't compete with Baudi in mainland China) it created this whole sensationalism crying wolf with the pretext of "openness", "anti-censorship".. when in fact it was the school yard bully all along. Not satisfied that Google is already in bed with the Obama administration, CIA and NSA, Google also wanted to blackmail the Chinese government (since when did hacking have anything to do with censorship? two totally unrelated issues!)and give China an "ultimatum".. Is Google trying to get into the business of policy-making and geopolitical negotiations now? But sanctimony ill suits you Google, you have finally shown your true colors and now most of us can see through the facade and elaborate scheme of smokes and mirrors..