progressive politics

Well appar­ent­ly the idea of unequal pro­tec­tion, is not a prob­lem in Wash­ing­ton as the FTC mulls the idea of cre­at­ing guides that only would alleged­ly be enforced on the inter­net cre­at­ing an unequal bur­den on adver­tis­ers who adver­tise online as opposed to broad­cast adver­tis­ing.

This would cre­ate a chill­ing effect on the NASDAQ and the inter­net for many small busi­ness own­ers who have just now begun to adver­tise online.

Stop playing politics with the lives of Americans.

Stop playing politics with small business.

Stop playing politics with policies that are not equally protective of
all consumers.

Un Equal pro­tec­tion, under the law is that the way that Wash­ing­ton prefers to do things these days?

You just have to scratch your head and won­der about all the strange goings on in the minds of those odd peo­ple.

Source Cnet

The Fed­er­al Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion on Thurs­day detailed plans for its so-called “third way” to reclas­si­fy broad­band ser­vice as a telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vice, which would help the agency reassert its author­i­ty for reg­u­lat­ing the Inter­net, after it lost an impor­tant legal bat­tle last month.

The pur­pose of the state­ment is to put the agency on stronger legal foot­ing after a fed­er­al appeals court ruled last year

that the FCC had no legal author­i­ty to pun­ish Com­cast for slow­ing down Bit­Tor­rent traf­fic on its net­work. The FCC offi­cial­ly cen­sured Com­cast for vio­lat­ing its Net neu­tral­i­ty prin­ci­ples.

The court deci­sion has called into ques­tion the FCC’s author­i­ty for any reg­u­la­tion of the Inter­net, espe­cial­ly new reg­u­la­tion the agency is form­ing to deal with Net neutrality–the broad ques­tion of whether rules are need­ed to pre­vent lop­sided treat­ment for cer­tain Web sites or types of Inter­net traf­fic. The chair­man’s state­ment, which asks for input from the pub­lic and the indus­try in deter­min­ing how traf­fic should be reclas­si­fied, is a step toward mak­ing the FCC’s legal sta­tus in reg­u­lat­ing broad­band ser­vices more cer­tain.

 

There are a lot of oth­er things that could be much more impor­tant than try­ing to take con­trol over the inter­net one has to ques­tion the intent of that issue.

So what is going on with this new attempt to apply a dif­fer­ent set of rules for online adver­tis­ers than they do for off line adver­tis­ers?