First, its not as if investors woke up yesterday and discovered net neutrality rules had been adopted by surprise. Investors -- Gottfried, who is paid to follow the market and telecommunications -- must be a dunce of the first order to not understand that investors would already have taken the adoption of the rules into account over the past several weeks (if not months) as their adoption became inevitable. Moreover, the fact that the market over the past few weeks hasn't reacted in any significant way to these rules is consistent with the fact that, at least in the short run, despite the sky is falling rhetoric of those opposed to the rules, they won't really have a significant impact on ISPs bottom lines.

The fact that Gottfried seems not to understand either of these points reveals her to be utterly unqualified as the provider of advice about telecommunications or the stock market.

spewing about.

You are absolutely correct how events and actions are always factored into the market, and they have determined the impact will not have short term effect on profits.

providers will not be regulated as far as rates are concerned. Telling a few municipalities that they can go ahead and create their own infrastructure didn't hurt as much as if the FCC had gone ahead and given that option to everyone. And, yeah, not such a surprise.

1) the regulations have not been released to the public yet so no one knows exactly what is in them and 2) whatever they are will be challenged by lawsuits and so will not go into effect for years.