The US Government versus The Internet aka World Wide Web

Don't forget about "Net Neutrality". The government is actively waging a legal war for control of the Internet.

On June 17, 2010, the FCC had an "Open Meeting on Framework for Broadband Internet Service" in which they discussed the National Broadband Plan and how best to control and regulate the Internet. On-Ramps and White-Spaces are two terms that should start becoming familiar to Internet Service Providers who no longer control the actual infrastructure but will only be able to buy access to it. Comcast opened a can of worms when they decided to challenge the regulation of their customer infrastructure. Now what Comcast did was wrong. They tightened the distribution of selected web servers allowing for less throughput and transmission speeds. Internet Service Providers should be forced to comply with the standing Communications Act, which only allows a "Carrier" to carry the signal without manipulation. Recently around 2002, Cable and DSL Carriers were considered "Information Systems" and exempt from the Communications Act. The recent court decision reaffirmed the governments position, and allowed Comcast to continue to manage their own network. Cable companies are definitely guilty of oversubscription, which is fraud. This court decision led to the open discussion within the Federal Communications Commission on how best to take advantage of this lingering question of control. The Chairman has laid out the framework for discussion, and while many commissioners disagreed on the depth of control, all felt there should be some sort of control and regulation of the Internet. The Senate has passed Bill 3480, submitted by Mr. Lieberman, Ms. Collins, and Mr. Carper, includes creation of many overarching divisions of government that will work in coordination with the department of defense, homeland security, and other similar departments. It also enables rules to take control of the national infrastructure, which is anything deemed critical to the functioning of the country, and ursurp this power until any "incident" is over. The United States Government is pulling out all the stops and trying to find the best wording to take control of the "National Infrastructure", aka The Internet.