27.04.2014 - 05:48 [ Techdirt ]

How The FCC Plans Neuter The Net, Even As The FCC Insists Everyone‘s Got It All Wrong

So, we already wrote about why Tom Wheeler‘s „open internet“ proposal is problematic, but Wheeler and the FCC are hitting back on everyone who‘s arguing that — telling everyone to calm down, insisting that nothing has changed, and that they‘re actually trying to preserve the old „open internet“ rules from 2010 that a court tossed out earlier this year.

The problem is that this is absolutely misleading — and either the FCC doesn‘t realize this or it‘s not being honest. And, I‘m not sure which one is more bizarre.