Death blow dealt by the courts.This could be the end of the Internet as we know it. Will we put up with Dictator control of the Internet?

Court: FCC has no power to regulate Net neutrality

6 April 2010 cnet.com: The Federal Communications Commission does not have the legal authority to impose strict Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. unanimously tossed out the FCC's August 2008 cease and desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to slow BitTorrent transfers and had voluntarily ended them earlier in the year.

If the FCC can not regulate Net neutrality there will be no Net. Just yet another consumer money pit. This is Yet another blow to to the modern printing press. And we now have controlled access to the town square. And thus a more limited freedom of speech.

Last word It is about time the FCC did what it does best regulate the air waves. We need radio bandwidth for roof top routers and by pass the Dictator ship that controls Internet access. Only then We get free cell phone time, not the hardware. and access to more then 1 or 2 Internet providers. Since the right of way to lay the last mile of cable will no longer be needed.