Virtual Pants

GigaOm:

Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute have informed AT&T that they intend to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against the wireless carrier for violating network neutrality rules. The complaint will address Ma Bell’s plan to keep certain subscribers from using Apple’s FaceTime video calling on the AT&T cellular network.

Glad someone is on our side. Only time will tell whose side the FCC is on. Arbitrarily blocking FaceTime for iPhone users as a means to coerce them into switching data plans is utterly wrong and a clear violation of the the network neutrality rules. What’s the difference between using data over Skype or FaceTime?