Posted on 01/21/2017 10:59:32 PM PST by Olog-hai
Outgoing U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler warned Republicans against dismantling the Obama administration’s landmark “net neutrality” protections that bar internet service providers from slowing consumer access to web content.
Wheeler, in an interview this week, repeatedly questioned why Republicans would institute new policies that he said would benefit major internet service providers such as Comcast Corp, AT&T Inc, Verizon Communications Inc and CenturyLink Inc at the expense of thousands of other companies and consumers.
The FCC rules set in early 2015 prohibit broadband providers from giving or selling access to speedy internet, essentially a “fast lane” on the web’s information superhighway, to certain internet services over others. …
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...it’s in the details
Whatever.. Pack your s—t and GTFO.
"Outgoing": warning ignored.
So much swamp to drain; so little time.
Honestly, neither side sounds like freedom. Net neutrality sounds like government determining access and speeds. Without it, Big Tech determine$ access and $peeds.
BURN NET NEUTRALITY to the ground. Along with everything else the Kenyan usurper inflicted on us.
I don’t recall the latter, which is the pro-nut-neutrality bogeyman, ever having manifested much less become an apparent problem.
Big Tech always determined access and speeds anyway. Fed.gov should not be regulating a service in the form of a private contract.
GTH, Wheeler.
Screw you Wheeler, you leftist jerk. You’re gone and so is your support for McDouglas and Rogers Marxist plans for taking over the domestic internet and censoring conservatives.
Tom Wheeler can try to generate fear to soften Republican spine. However, Americans are sick and tired of spineless Republicans. The midterms will be a the result of how Americans saw their resolve.
Access and speed cost money. How successful do you think a Flat Rate Gas Station would be, where you would be given an endless supply of gasoline for a fixed cost?
Net neutrality helps the Chinese...
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