Why the FCC will regulate the Internet

"I welcome the FCC

"I welcome the FCC regulating the Internet, or atleast where the it enters US soil. I am tired of all the spam, scams and porn and look forward to the government throwing its weight around to clean things up."
...just what we need, you dumb b|tch

"Well, the WEB is U-N-I-V-E-R-S-A-L.
The FCC doesn't rule the world.
Period."
So you must ask yourself, " Who does rule the world?"
The United Nations will be the regulator of the WorldWideWeb. Count on it. Foreign troops are currently training on USA soil to come and take your guns and your intranets. NewOrleans anyone? N3wW0rld0rder. Period.

FCC isn't a worldwide body,

FCC isn't a worldwide body, so it has no rights to regulate the 'internet', or anything that uses it.

You actually want the

You actually want the government to control what we see, hear and think? It will never happen. Thankfully.

Well I would say HOPEFULLY

The FCC recently determined

The FCC recently determined that cable modem service was not subject to common carrier regulation. Though the FCC currently subjects DSL to common carrier regulation, it has hinted at a change of heart to a position of non-regulation. Why? Because the internet and related technologies are rapidly evolving.

Common carrier regulations, a legal concept that has been around much longer than our country has, were developed to fend of monopolization of particular industries and also to thwart customer discrimination. The hands off approach the FCC has taken with respect to internet related technologies is a nod to the rapid evolution this field has experienced. Unless the FCC gets the impression that some of the old concerns like monopolization and discrimination are going to strike the Internet, the FCC will likely stay out of the way.

Think about security wise

Think about security wise tho? If the fcc develops some sort of way to monitor over US's internet traffic... wouldnt that be the ultimate target for hackers to break into and ABUSE. I dont think they have the right to monitor the net, even if they do end up monitoring within the next 20 years, you really think they could get the job done? Too much spam, useless info, and overall traffic. Its just too big. What do you use more, email or ur cell/land phone? And not just email monitoring, theres web forums, chats, im, voip, the list goes on and on.

What FCC should really

What FCC should really understand

A couple of points:

1) Internet is not telephony.
Phone company regulator body should not regulate an entity, which is far bigger than telephony.
Internet is also not simply "communications". Communications is a very broad term, still FCC does not cover most form of communication.

If FCC has a sight on regulating the Internet, than telephony services over the Internet should move away from the Internet.

2)Internet is not an American entity.
Phone (or other globally available services over the Net) should not be regulated simply by American regulators.
National regulators should have certain control over the "ramps" only (probably at the local, national service provider level), but certainly not globally over the Internet as a whole.

3) Phone companies are way smaller entities than the Internet.
None of the smaller entities should have a right to negatively influence a way bigger entities than themselves, including phone companies. Should the US Postal Service have the say in any aspects of email?
No way, although they might have argued that email is just an other form of the mail service. If the US Postal Service could not - rightly - influence, block email, the phone companies should not be able telephony over the Internet either. Even if it would mean the existence of two, not connected phone services for while.

Let companies that established their telephony services on the Internet at the first place, accepting the Net as it is, without demanding to change it to serve the conditions of a technically outdated delivery method compete with traditional phone companies.

If at the end traditional phone companies die out - well, that's what happened with several industries during the history. Dinosour industries did die out instead of re-shaping, regulating the new industries, based on new technologies - even if they delivered the same service.

Can you imagine horse cart owner's association regulating the trucking industry?
Can you imagine companies operating Zeppelins regulating airlines?

I can't. Neither should you imagine traditional phone company interests regulating the Net.

From the article:
In the near future users will access telephony services via 3G wireless, WiFi wireless, WiMax as well as wireline services. "The FCC has to understand that all of those modalities are equal and one should not be treated differently from another," he says.

What the FCC should understand is that, all those modalities are equal as much as transatlantic Zeppelin and Jumbo Jet airlines are equal, although they both provide the same service: moving people and goods from one continent to the other in the air.

try and try they may, but

try and try they may, but all they can really do is Fine offenders. And even then, how can they fine an offender outside the US?? Start blocking non-US websites and such? I'm sure that would go over real well. (really I do not think most americans would care, and if they did we are all too lazy to do anything about it.) I think there will end up being a "free" net and a US net. But thats just my guess. Best thing that could happen is for all americans to stand up and take back control of this country. America was suppose to be "for the people and by the people", lately its more like "big brother knows best". Exactly the reason that the WAR OF INDEPENDENCE started!!! Wake up people, they are taking all of our freedom, and giving us "deperate house wives".

Or Better yet, don't you an

Or Better yet, don't you an operating system that is prone to worms, trojans, viri and other mal-ware. --EG

"there is no limit on the

"there is no limit on the amount of space (that is, channels) that can be used as there is with broadcast tv"

exactly. there is no limit on the amount of server space used by the internet either, so government regulation should be a non-issue.

if people don't want to see spam, get a spam blocker or don't use the internet.

I read a lot of these

I read a lot of these articles and the posts about them and find it very amusing that the US government is going to regulate this and that, well "only in the America". The comment from "Emilio Pastrana" is very true the FCC let alone America doesn't rule the world, and what control it has is deminishing very quickly.