PATRIOT-NEWS: Any government ruling that has liberals griping about too much corporate control and the Wall Street Journal growling about a left-wing coup might not be a bad compromise.
Considering that the Federal Communications Commission had few good options last week, its new rules affirming “Net neutrality” were at least a stab at fairness…
As one critic put it, the FCC did a great job of protecting access to the Internet of the 1990s, but not to the Internet of tomorrow. The only thing that the FCC did for certain last week was to set the stage for lawsuits that, ultimately, will flesh out exactly how the new rules can be applied.
Meanwhile, just when you thought you no longer needed to pay for HBO, get ready to pay more for that streaming movie. For all the talk about freedom of speech, much of this is a tussle among corporate behemoths — Comcast and Netflix, Verizon and Google — for profit share… (more)
