Will The FCC Save The Internet?
From Public Knowledge:
Comcast’s defense of its indefensible practice of throttling BitTorrent rests on the definition of the word “block.” For such a big company, and for such a big industry, that’s not much of a defense. But at the point, it’s all they have. The question is whether it will be enough to save Comcast from being the test case that proved the need for a strong government presence to keep the Internet open and free from network control.At the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) extraordinary hearing in Cambridge, Mass., yesterday (Feb. 25), FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said that companies can’t “arbitrarily block access to particular applications and services” and that any such blockage must be done in a way transparent not only to consumers but to applications developers. He said the Commission was “ready, willing and able to step in” if it found such a situation.