Net Neutrality Comes to an End

This news has been coming out and analyzed over the last couple of days and is worthy of a post.

The Daily Beast has a great write-up of the ramifications of this decision, and what all this actually is and means:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/15/does-this-ruling-mean-the-end-of-the-internet-maybe.html

Here is a snippet from that article:

On Tuesday, the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., trashed (PDF) the Federal Communications Commission’s “Open Internet” rules.

Translation: The judges just killed Net Neutrality.

Less-wonky translation: Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner Cable or whoever provides your Internet connection can now block, slow or otherwise mess with websites, apps and other services.

And the FCC—the agency that’s supposed to protect Internet users and oversee communications networks—can’t do anything about it.

Well, they can do one thing—which I’ll explain in a second.
Happy reading,

J.W. Gant