Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

Fri Feb 27 21:27:53 UTC 2015

One of the FUD items I keep seeing from some factions is that the FCC
will regulate content on the Internet in the same way as they did for
television during the time of the "fairness doctrine".  In particular,
these people *expect* the FCC to take a page from the IRS and start
putting up roadblocks, if not outright blocks, on political content on
views that differs from the views of the controlling Administration.

Now, the Fairness Doctrine was not part of Title II, I agree.  But we
never expected the IRS to play favorites with not-for-profit
organizations, either.

On 02/27/2015 11:32 AM, Scott Helms wrote:
> While I view that statement with trepidation, my first guess would one that
> isn't in violation of state or federal law.  About the only things I can
> think off hand, ie stuff we get told to take down as hosters today, are
> sites violating copyright law and child pornography.  I hope that we don't
> see any additions to that list.

>> On 2015-02-27 14:14, Jim Richardson wrote:
>>
>>> What's a "lawful" web site?
>>>
>>>  Now *there* is a $64,000 question.  Even more interesting is, "Who gets
>> to decide day to day the answer to that question?" :)