Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
November 23, 2017 10:00 pm

Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent

Nilay Patel, reporting for The Verge: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released his proposal to kill net neutrality this week, and while there's a lot to be unhappy with, it's hard not to be taken with the brazenness of his argument. Pai thinks it was a mistake for the FCC to try and stop Comcast from blocking BitTorrent in 2008, thinks all of the regulatory actions the FCC took after that to give itself the authority to prevent blocking were wrong, and wants to go back to the legal framework that allowed Comcast to block BitTorrent.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kCknXmga79s/ajit-pai-and-the-fcc-want-it-to-be-legal-for-comcast-to-block-bittorrent

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Slashdot

Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..

More About this Source Visit Slashdot