R.I.P Internet

Great.
The Federal Trade Commission has gone against every market indicator and instead listened to "here's your sign" boy, Ted Stevens. In a report on broadband availability and connectivity, the FTC found little reason to protect consumers and content providers from attempts by large telecommunications providers to charge more for faster delivery.
In other words, in the coming months and years, if you notice it seems to be taking longer to download stuff from your favourite site than it does from Microsoft or Amazon, it's because your favourite site hasn't paid their "fast packet" tax. And neither have you.

Ted Stevens original comment:
"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."


"an Internet was sent by my staff" ????

And the FTC listened to this pinhead.

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