Setback for the FCC

Recently this week the US court of appeals ruled against interent nutrality pertaining to broadband companies such as ATT, Comcast, and Verizon- a good article that you should check out about it can be found at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_internet_rules. The ruling took power away from the FCC who wanted to regulate that internet broadband companies allot universal action to all internet users using their networks. But now the court has given power to the companies who spend billions of dollars a year on their companies. The FCC wanted to prohibit the internent companies from favoring one type of website over another or disdaining certain ones.

The ruling is really interesting because in 2005 the supreme court and the FCC were all for deregulating interent neautreality. Now, the FCC seems to want it's power back. But it has failed to do so, and now the large companies who to some large extent control the internet, have the power to regulate as they see fit.

What that means for you and I is that the power is coming directly from the people we pay to us the internet on our computers. So they have the power to regulate and deregulate cetain websites that clog their networks and which they dont want people atttending too. So in the future of this year if we have problems with internet nuetrality we know who to complain to, the big internet companies and for once not the FCC.