Posted on 12/14/2017 10:54:49 AM PST by heterosupremacist
WASHINGTON — The US Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.
The approval of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal marks a victory for internet service providers like AT&T Inc., Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. and hands them power over what content consumers can access.
Democrats, Hollywood and companies like Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc. had urged Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump, to keep the Obama-era rules barring service providers from blocking, slowing access to or charging more for certain content.
Consumer advocates and trade groups representing content providers have planned a legal challenge aimed at preserving those rules...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Yeah!!
This is a lie. Obama's rules did no such thing, and this has already been proven.
Sounds like this could hurt those that like to watch Hollywood movies all the time .... I’m trying to shed a tear, but it’s just not there ...
that’s why Trump placed Pai in the lead, just for this issue. F Google and the rest of the obamatard lackeys..
“Net Neutrality” is your typical liberal lie on bumper sticker.
By striking it down, providers will be able to provide increased performance for those willing to pay.
Currently, we have restricted capacity and rates because the gov’t won’t allow for performance based pricing.
If any libs want to talk to me about this, I’ll just ask them what they’ve done about YouTube, Facebook and Twitter censoring conservative viewpoints.
Hmmmm.....................
so confused... I pay a lot extra already for super fast internet...
But you say this will allow me to do what I already am doing.
Google bad. Comcast good.
you talk to libs? All these aholes do is yell and scream at me.
Another promise kept!
This is great news for all who love liberty!
Obama and Soros, 2 fantatical marxists are for net neutrality. Trump just saved the Internet and freedom.
Soros the marxist is behind this “net neutrality” :
http://ijr.com/2015/03/270555-soros-groups-dropped-82-million-push-net-neutrality-interesting-thing-happened-placeholder/
On February 26, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed 400 pages worth of new internet regulations, the details of which were released Friday.
It’s not a secret that left-leaning groups have advocated for “Net Neutrality” rules, but the amount of money thrown at the cause, and the sources, might be surprising.
The Media Research Center found that the Open Society Foundation, run by George Soros, donated over $82 million to “pro net-neutrality groups” between 2000 and 2013.
Between Open Society and The Ford Foundation, close to $200 million was doled out to push for net neutrality.
Image Credit: Media Research Center
Media Research Center
MRC also reported that the Ford and Open Society Foundations joined together February 11 for an event called Net Gain, intended:
‘“… to launch a major new partnership’ to deal with ‘significant challenges at the intersection of the Internet and philanthropy.”’
At the event, The Ford Foundation’s President, Darren Walker, said:
“The Internet rights are civil rights. And like so many other civil rights, they need to be secured, safeguarded, protected and celebrated.”
Walker then lauded FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s plan to regulate the internet as a public utility:
“… the direct consequence of the tireless efforts of many of you in this room, the organization you represent, to persuade, and to challenge, to evangelize” the principles behind net neutrality.”
One of the Soros-funded groups, Free Press, heavily lobbied the FCC and, according to the Daily Caller, “their pro net-neutrality arguments” were cited 40 times in the 400 pages of regulations.
Free Press’s co-founder, college professor Robert McChesney, has advocated for government subsidized journalism:
“In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles,” McChesney wrote in a 2009 essay.
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To have people on here defend this marxist tyranny these communists call “net neutrality “
is ridiculous. And the Ford foundation is a communist group. Also the NY times , wash post et al are for net neutrality (all the marxists are).There was nothing wrong with the Internet for the first
few decades before the marxist Obama (and Soros) imposed their 400 pages of “fixes” to a non-existent problem
in 2015. Now many even one here a conservative forum are calling for obama’s initial 400 pages of soros government
regulations to stay. ridiculous
. If you supporters of this bs want socialism so badly why don’t you just move to Venezuela now
and join in the starvation and long lines for non-existent toilet paper.
It is my opinion that freedom last as long as Trump is president and pai is protecting the internet. not much longer after that. Obama was adding even more government regulations to all areas of the economy . This and this net neutrality will return once Trump and pai aren’t there any more.
I sure hope so. Everyone in my subdivision is stuck with the same 6 meg DSL AT&T provider. They refuse to expand the BW and also refuse to expand service to those moving into the area ("all the BW is used up", they say)...
Fixed it
I honestly don’t know enough about the issue. All I said was I already pay extra for fast speed internet, which supposedly this change would now allow me to do...
I was just confused.
When your enemies are DemonRats, Hollywood, Google, Faceplant, and consumer advocates, you can have complete confidence that you are doing the right thing!
Remember, large corporation love to install roadblocks to entry for possible competitors. The entire Lobbying industry in DC revolves around companies trying to influence lawmakers and Bureaucrats to regulate their competition out of business or create barriers of entry for their potential competition.
Good! Can the providers triple the cost for watching NFL games?
Praise Jesus. The communist internet controls are dead. Now you can get what you pay for!! The communists didn’t want you to have faster speed than the parasites!! Now you will be able to but blinding speed and the parasite can go to the public library to view porn at slow speed.
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