The FCC announced a ruling over the weekend that sparks an interesting debate over the future of Web access. The government agency determined that Comcast was discriminating against BitTorrent, though the counterargument is that Comcast was only trying to manage its network. On the other hand, some folks insist that “managing” Web traffic in this manner is censorship. “What right has a network provider to target certain applications and its users, asked FCC Chairman Kevin Martin?” Ephraim Schwartz reports in Net access in the wake of FCC vs. Comcast. Put another way: ” Martin said in a personal statement [PDF] following the ruling, “would you be OK with the post office opening your mail, deciding they didn’t want to bother delivering it, and hiding that fact by sending it back to you stamped ‘address unknown — return to sender’?” Technology Industry