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Monday, November 29, 2010

FCC May Regulate Internet Days Before Christmas

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has a Christmas gift in store for the phone and cable industry: it may move ahead on its controversial net-neutrality regulations three days before Christmas.

The Hill.com reports an FCC source confirmed on Friday that the commission plans to push its December meeting back by a week, meaning it will fall on the 22nd of the month. That's the same meeting in which analysts say the agency may move forward on its controversial net-neutrality proposal.

Though the FCC has not confirmed that it will vote on net neutrality this year, rumors are swirling that it will.
The timing of the meeting is already raising eyebrows. Some see it as a way to move the matter along before the GOP assumes the majority and while Congress is not in session to criticize the effort.
Read more here.


Rush Limbaugh Warns: Assault on internet freedom
Rush Limbaugh said on Friday's Show net neutrality is: "going to limit the amount of conservatism that you'll be able to find."



Campigning in 2007, Barack Obama explained to a audience at Google what he means by 'Net Neutrality'. Obama promised he was going to level a few playing fields.



Backgrounder:

FCC Net Neutrality Smackdown a Win for Free Market, Limited Government
(The Heritage Foundation)

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