I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
A federal appeals courts has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission can’t tell Comcast and other large providers to treat all Internet traffic equally on their networks, the Associated Press is reporting.
The ruling is a blow to ‘net neutrality‘ and could pose some challenges for the federal government’s plan to expand broadband access. The FCC needs authority to regulate broadband to help pay for expanding access to it by tapping a federal fund “that subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural communities,” the news service reports.
Beyond that today’s ruling strikes at the heart of the view that all Internet users should be treated equally and that “slow lanes” and “fast lanes” shouldn’t be created for users based on financial power or other criteria. That is a common fear among some Internet users.
The news service goes on to report that it is the FCC’s view that net neutrality is needed to prevent that sort of hierarchy.
The AP reports:
“The agency chairman Julius Genachowski argues that such rules are needed to prevent phone and cable companies from using their control over Internet access to favor some online content and services over others.
