- Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has given two death row inmates a reprieve until the state's botched lethal injection last month can be dealt with.
- Monty Python's Flying Circus turns 40 this month, and the remaining cast have gotten together for a documentary.
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Army will be following the President's strategy in a possible rebuke to Afghan commander Gen. McChrystal.
- JP Morgan says it will take another four years to recover the jobs lost since the recession started.
- Republicans continue to try to pass legislation to stop the FCC from making net neutrality rules.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
But Stearns says that before any of this goes through, he wants an agency probe of the Internet market showing that there's a "failure" requiring it. "The FCC bears the responsibility to prove a market failure, especially since its 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007 decisions on cable modem service, digital subscriber line service, broadband over power line service, and wireless broadband service were predicated on the notion that the broadband market nationwide is competitive and that regulation is unwarranted."
ReplyDeleteShorter: "You can't regulate until we get our hooks into the internet! And then we won't let you regulate anyways!"