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 ...
“Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc. had urged Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump, to keep the Obama-era rules...”
The perfect place to stop reading as you just saw all you need to know.
I never really quit knew what it did, though by making them play by utility rules, it looked like just another scam to generate more taxes.
What was it suppose to do ? What did it really do ?
Same.
Rush played some speeches from some extraordinarily dimbulb leftists at rallies today. Best guess is these folks couldn’t spell internet with the help of friends. Really, the speeches were that dumb.
Loved Rush’s comment that net neutrality has been in existence for a bit over two years, if I remember correctly. He wondered how the net could have grown so fast and done so well without the help of all those “well educated” D.C. types (the ones who would never hold a real job requiring talent) before then.
No one stands for innovation, customer service and value like Comcast and AT&T.
Thanks for your excellent summary.
Thanks to President Trump for this win, which is another slap in Obozo’s commie face:.
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.
This level of ignorance seems really dangerous to me. Twenty years ago, you might have expected to see at least a few younger people who understood both sides of the argument, even if many of most of them disagreed with a decision like this. But this bunch can't even conceive that there is another side - it's all Leftist Newspeak all the way.
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/
It's amazing the marxists were able too fool so many people with this.
It's the same thing marxists/communists always say “this company is charging you too much or abusing power so we need massive government regulations to stop that abuse” and then they give it a name that sounds so sweet like “net neutrality”. and people fall for it time and time again.
I remember them saying the same thing about the health insurance companies charging too much or that obamacare was going to lower healthcare costs. sure Conservatives didn't fall for obamacare but look the similirity in the marxist’s arguments and replace insurance company for isp and you get the picture.
all this can be summed up by Ronald Reagan: “Government is not the solution to our problems government IS the problem”
>>>By striking it down, providers will be able to provide increased performance for those willing to pay.
It’s like putting HOT lanes on the information superhighway.
I just want to know how this will affect me.
I pay top dollar for the fastest internet connection available in my area. I use it like most peeps I guess, surfing net, mail, watching movies, playing games, ect.
“By striking it down, providers will be able to provide increased performance for those willing to pay.”
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Which makes total sense economically.
You want to get from here to there cheap. You can go by bus.
You want to get from here to there fast. You go by plane and pay more.
There has to be marching orders.
So-called net neutrality has been in place two years maybe.
As soon as this switch back to original policy, the liberals started braying all over in unison. As if this was the worst thing in the world.
The hype machine is great and liberal lemmings have no lives.
I think what to do is call anyone who disagrees with this change back a racist. They just can’t stand an Indian American making decisions.
The next ‘Rat POTUS will re-instate this garbage unless Congress passes a statute and Trump signs it.
Me too...then they say we shouldn’t talk about this.
Anything that undoes anything that Obama did can’t be bad.
I have fiber optic AT&T U-verse it has 100 MPBS+ upload and download. I was the first private residence in the entire county to get the new service. It is lightning fast. Like download a 2 hour movie in a couple seconds fast. It cost $10 less per month than the highest DSL available.
Just happened that the manhole access for the AT&T service for my area of the city is directly in my driveway apron. AT&T blocked my driveway on and off for a week laying the lines. I had a service call in for upgrade before they finished installation. Our area of the city was the first area in the county to get new fiber optic service. Shaker Heights was the second one. Dense population of high earners.
The DSL was fast, but the exchange is pretty much in my backyard. This is ridiculously faster than I could ever need.
Any dismantlement of Hope n Change is fine by me.
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