And we have "YET" to see the almost 400 page rulebook. Why are they keeping it hidden?

Reminds me of the Healthcare bill. We have to pass it before we can find out what is in it.

The internet competes with state controlled media.
They MUST control the free dissemination of ideas or the hegemony will fail.
The internet is obviously the enemy of the state.
I bet they call it terrorist in private.

Who owns the weapons (judges) ?

We need to further develop internet access on Amateur Band, or Citizen band radio. Peer-to-peer network, decentralized, like bitcoin.
CB has potential because the FCC doesn't monitor it anymore.
email is already available via HAM radio. Browsing isn't because it is illegal to use Amateur band for commercial application (ie Amazon).
No it wouldn't be fast, but it would be something the gov;t cant turn off.
This is another reason for you to get your HAM license if you haven't already.

Bitcoin should offer a means of doing this somewhere.
Besides, it would be very Galt of us to use Bitcoin - especially for this.

I wonder how this will affect the darknet?

So what.

They own virtually none of the physical infrastructure it is built on. At this point it is nearly all privately owned equipment.

Would you be ok with it when they decide to use YOUR equipment with no recompense? Or tell you what to do with it?

You realize the government created the Internet in the first place, right?

I say make an election issue to roll back those regs. And while we're at it, we ought to work up a proposal to abolish the FCC and institute a definition of airwaves and bandwidth as a new type of real estate. Rand ("The Property Status of Airwaves") proposed that very thing.

When they take control of the DNS servers, you can say goodbye to the First Amendment. They will have the power to block access to any website they choose - on the ENTIRE Internet. And they can blame it on a glitch, an employee with a vendetta - anything.

Just like the IRS targeting scandal but with more far-reaching implications.

I also wouldn't be surprised if Obama tries to turn over control of the DNS servers to the UN for (mis)management.

Nat Taggart -- "The public be damned." -- j

this encroachment will expand and reduce the value
of this medium steadily -- govt screws up everything
it touches. -- j

All I knows that reading that article was exactly like reading Atlas- "the public good". Disgusting

I'll give it 12 months.

How can a widely distributed network (which is what the WWW is) that is owned by tens of thousand of private companies and individuals be usurped by someone without their permission? This "step", no doubt all about $$$ to the politicians and control to the UN, has to be completely unlawful. The BS it is because we say so can't possibly be upheld in court.

I'll take the under on that one.

“Want to start a pool on how long that last?”
-It will last till the next proposal. New taxes or fees weren’t added to this proposal. They wanted to be honest, right? *rolls eyes*
..so....maybe...15 months?

No second chances. :-)

Hmm, on second thought that might not be quick enough...femtoseconds maybe?

One day. Did I lose yet?

How do we divide that pool up?

Nanoseconds since implementation?