On a rampage against anything that remotely smells like regulation, the US House of Representatives have voted to block funding for the FCC’s Net Neutrality plan, which would ensure that ISPs couldn’t restrict certain users from accessing select content.
I’m sure this will deeply anger Senator Al Franken: Verizon’s challenging the FCC’s net neutrality rules in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, saying it’s “deeply concerned by the FCC’s assertion of broad authority for sweeping new regulation of broadband networks and the internet itself”.
Sure, the FCC got some net neutrality standards in place, but the majority of people probably wouldn’t know if their bandwidth was artificially throttled. That’s why chairman Julius Genachowski wants computer apps to alert users of any such funny business.
