chimera
join:2009-06-09
Washington, DC Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| The concern here is that the claim isn't even metered billing. It's that this organization is arguing that ISPs ought to be allowed to censor and monitor all traffic going over their network. So if they don't want you to send out an email containing content critical of them you can't. If a site says something negative about them, they ought to be able to simply block it.
Heck according to this argument he is even saying that ISPs have the right to use deep packet inspect and selectively block any content they don't want. Since the internet is a global network regulation of it does fall to congress as it is used for trade and if you feel like cracking out the Constitution Article 1, Section 8 states that Congress has the power, "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes".
This is why congress was allowed to step in and start regulating railroads, and this is also why they have full authority to regulate public interstate networks such as (you guessed it) major ISPs. |
