{"id":188142,"date":"2010-12-02T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/02\/another-day-another-sellout-by-an-obama-flunky\/"},"modified":"2010-12-02T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T01:01:00","slug":"another-day-another-sellout-by-an-obama-flunky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/02\/another-day-another-sellout-by-an-obama-flunky\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day, Another Sellout by an Obama Flunky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski making a proposal that would <a href=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/2010\/12\/01\/genachowski-offers-pretend-net-neutrality-proposal\/\">place a fig leaf on the elimination of net neutrality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It does not cover wireless, except for vague language.<\/li>\n<li>Paid priority is acceptable so long as it is not &#8220;unjust and unreasonable,&#8221; which allows Comcast to gig over the internet video to prop up its cable business.<\/li>\n<li>It is likely not legal, since the court of appeals has already said that the FCC has little or no authority to regulate to regulate Title I (information services), and the plan refuses to reclassify the services as Title II (communication services), where there is explicit statutory authority.<\/li>\n<li>How actual infractions would be handled are unclear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would also point you at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/and-away-we-go\">comments by the President of Public Knowledge<\/a>, and would further note that PK, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/tales-of-the-sausage-factory.wetmachine.com\/\">Harld Feld&#8217;s commentary on Wetmachine<\/a> are probably good starting points for developments.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC meeting will be on December 21, and the Republicans on the board, 2 of the 5, have already announced that they will oppose any regulation, so it&#8217;s possible that Genachowski will have to move in the consumer&#8217;s direction to deal with his more consumer friendly board members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski making a proposal that would place a fig leaf on the elimination of net neutrality. There are a number of problems: It does not cover wireless, except for vague language. Paid priority is acceptable so long as it is not &#8220;unjust and unreasonable,&#8221; which allows Comcast to gig &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1016,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-international-commerce","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}