Comments on: FTC on Net neutrality: No new laws needed

Commission concludes that there is no need for extensive regulations of the sort that the Republican-controlled Congress considered, and rejected, last year.

[ethana2]

Well, what do you know?

How many people in our government have ever run into things like this directly?

I use skype every single day. What about them? How about a quote from one of our guy at the pentagon:
"I'm not a high-tech guy- I don't really do email."

Then we have the dmca and copyright extensions....
My opinion: Our lawmakers are idiots, and I hope, for the sake of the citizens of vermont, that they secede successfully. Perhaps it would tell our politicians something: they can't not use their heads and expect people to forgive them. I want to see people declaring them insufficient. They sure don't do what I need them to.

Hopefully, though, over the next 20 years, we get people in there that know what's going on.

[mwendy]

6.5 ways in and out

Though service options vary, there exist at least 6.5 different/common ways to get b-band in and out of American homes: DSL, Cable, BPL, Satellite, WAN/Wi-Fi, FiOS. The options are expanding, too.

This has resulted from a largely deregulated marketplace. More of this type of treatment will bring more broadband/hyperband (whatever you want to call it) to average consumers. And it will be facilities-based, not simply resale.

If there's a problem going forward, the FTC and FCC have all the authority they need to fix any issues of consumer harm.

[HiF|yer]

Hmmm...

All this opinion says to me is that the crooks who want to steal the bandwidth believe they can already do it without any problems...they can loophole existing terminology. Certainly anything that has Alberto Gonzales' implied approval is bad for the country. We need to keep the pressure on legislators for a new law.