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Article: Swift response to net neutrality proposals.(Tech Chronicles)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday proposed stricter rules to ensure that wireless and wireline Internet providers don't block or slow traffic over their networks, a widely anticipated move that drew swift criticism from the telecommunications industry.
In a speech before the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Julius Genachowski outlined plans to codify and expand "open Internet" guidelines first endorsed by the FCC in 2005. The Obama appointee said that instances of carriers obstructing online telephone services, intentionally degrading peer-to-peer file sharing and preventing access to political content, threaten to stifle ...