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In an effort to meet an Obama campaign promise, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski indicated Wednesday that he will propose new regulations for Internet lines.
He is expected to give a speech at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday laying out his proposal.
Genachowski's attempt to revive the long-delayed net-neutrality proceeding is a delicate balancing act designed to garner some industry and public interest support without completely satisfying anyone...
Public Knowledge, a group that promotes net-neutrality, urged Genachowski to continue with reclassification at a future meeting.
The group nevertheless praised Genachowski for his decision to move forward with "urgently needed" rules, even without the reclassification effort.
Genachowski also got a supportive letter on Tuesday from Senate Democrats.
Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and John Kerry (D-Mass.) urged him to move forward before the end of the year.
"We are also well aware that it is always easier to criticize the policy-making process than it is to make good policy--and as a result you have taken incoming fire from all sides," the letter said.
Genachowski will hold a vote on his plan at a Dec. 21 commission meeting after tweaking the proposal in the next few weeks. He needs to woo two of his fellow commissioners, the minimum needed to pass the rules.
Originally posted by jibeho
reply to post by Advantage
Many are asking the same questions. We have the supposedly the best intel in the world and we can't even find Assange and yet Time magazine apparently knows where he is. Really??
Originally posted by seedofchucky
more anti-wiki threads anything to discredit wiki leaks huh haters?
problem with ats is to manyy paranoid people who think everyone has an agenda .
Originally posted by seedofchucky
problem with ats is to manyy paranoid people who think everyone has an agenda .
Conspiracies are cognitive devices. They are able to out
think the same group of individuals acting alone
Conspiracies take information about the world in which they operate (the conspiratorial
environment), pass it around the conspirators and then act on the
result. We can see conspiracies as a type of device that has inputs (information
about the environment) and outputs (actions intending to change or maintain
the environment).
What does a conspiracy compute?
It computes the next action of the conspiracy
Now I we ask the question: how effective is this device? Can we compare it to
itself at different times? Is the conspiracy growing stronger or weakening? This
is a question that asks us to compare two values.
Can we find a value that describes the power of a conspiracy?
We could count the number of conspirators, but that would not capture the
difference between a conspiracy and the individuals which comprise it. How do
they differ? Individuals in a conspiracy conspire. Isolated individuals do not.
We can capture that difference by adding up all the important communication
“Obama’s henchman goes rogue to ‘guard’ Internet”
Chairman Julius Genachowski is moving forward as rapidly as he dares to add the Federal Communications Commission to the growing list of federal agencies used by President Obama to enforce a radical agenda opposed by the Democratic Congress and an overwhelming majority of voters. Genachowski recently unveiled a revised draft of his 2009 “net neutrality” proposal that would put the Internet under a New Deal-era communications bureaucracy. Under the guise of protecting consumers from being forced to pay for varying levels of delivery access and speed, Genachowski proposes to drag the Internet under the same regulatory authority that puts the FCC in charge of radio, telephone and television broadcasting.