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President-Elect Barack Obama has nominated an old Harvard classmate to be the new chairman of the FCC.  Julius Genachowski has a pretty deep background in the Internet, as this biography on Wikipedia points out.  He is described as a strong proponent of network neutrality, the essential nut of which is that Internet service providers cannot favor one type of traffic over another - for example, Comcast can’t slow down Google packets while allowing others to travel unimpeded. 

Reporting of the Genachowski appointment hasn’t been all skittles and beer, though.  ZDNet is sounding a much more cautious tone, seemingly based on the fact that there really isn’t too much detailed information about Genachowski out there.  He has experience in the big media space, working at Barry Diller’s InterActive Corp., which at times has enveloped companies like Ticketmaster, Home Shopping Network,  Match.Com, CollegeHumor, 23/6, and dozens of others. 

But it is his stance on net neutrality that should most interest the PVC crowd.  What if you find that you finish your masterpiece video, upload it to some distribution site, and then find that it can’t be seen by anyone on RoadRunner?  Or Charter?  Or AT&T?  Let’s hope that a Genachowski FCC can make unequivocal, long-lasting rules to keep the free flow of the Internet free for years to come.

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Mmmm…SkittleBrau….

But seriously, what is the chance this will be a law versus just a policy of the new administration?

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