Posted on 11/28/2017 5:13:18 AM PST by Kaslin
The FCC is expected to vote and approve on December 14 Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to end the so-called “net neutrality” rules imposed by President Obama’s FCC in 2015. This has provoked howls from liberals and tech giants that this is a blow for Internet freedom and another boon for big business. It is exactly the opposite. It is in fact a boon for economic and political freedom as are all the other Obama-era regulations rescinded by the Trump administration that have promoted economic growth and lessened our dependency on big government. As the Washington Examiner notes:
Sometimes you have to wonder how sincere people are when they gnash their teeth and pull out their hair over President Trump blocking or reversing an Obama-era regulation.The latest cries of distress about anarchy and market apocalypse can be heard about an announcement by the Federal Communications Commission that it will roll back “net neutrality.”
Net neutrality’s dubious value is made obvious by the misleading way Democrats and many news outlets reported the decision. “F.C.C. plans net neutrality repeal in a victory for telecoms,” wrote the New York Times. Missing from the headline or lede was that the decision was a loss for Netflix, Amazon, Google, and other corporate giants that provide content.
Liberals oppose the free flow of information they can’t control and in the name of providing equal access to all they sought to regulate the access of everybody. They., in effect, sought to put toll booths and speed bumps on the information superhighway. As the Daily Signal reported:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Title does not match the article.
Getting rid of Obama Net Neutrality is a BOON for freedom.
One sure rule to follow is to look at the name of any “law” or “principle” provided by leftists.
Remember the Affordable Care Act.
Net Neutrality? Heh, if Google, Apple, and the rest of the LGBTWXYZABCbullsh*t contributing clowns want it, it’s not good.
Tech companies actually already throttle content.
But I’m supposed to believe that ISPs are just chomping at the bit to tick off customers by charging to go to a website when there isn’t any evidence that they are?
When “content neutrality” becomes a thing, then we will talk.
You said it.
Locally, there is effort to develop entities to provide broadband universally and cheaply. The entities are governmental, electric utilities and grass roots
I wonder what effect the change will have on these efforts.
I suspect that the Net Neutrality was promoted by Comcast and ATT to maintain their monopolies.
Poor Spectrum. They are losing cable subscribers and now they will lose broad band customers
Net Neutrality = Government Run Internet
Don’t be fooled by the name. It’s as phony as the Affordable Care Act.
Everything Zero did was for absolute distruction of Our America.
Now they are considering Wookie for president?
Remarkable well not so much!
A good bet: repealing anything Obama did is good for the people.
Net Neutrality is a steaming pile.
“Net Neutrality” is code for Left-wing bureaucrats deciding what should be allowed on the Interwebs and what shouldn’t.
They don’t plan to charge the users, they plan to charge the websites.
Nice website you have here, shame that your traffic is all going away because your pages load too slowly. There’s a little trick, though, to make sure they load faster, yes, that’s it, just keep putting money in the jar, we’ll tell you when it’s enough.
Will there still be tons of free porn? That’s what I need to know.
“Sometimes you have to wonder how sincere people are when they gnash their teeth and pull out their hair over President Trump blocking or reversing an Obama-era regulation.”.......
The resistance is mostly done for “show”.
Net Neutrality Advocates Are Modern-Day Snake Oil Salesmen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3608535/posts
Much more coherent article. Less government intervention is always better.
How can they not get the headline correct??
Excellent point
makes no sense to me. Net neutrality was discussed long before Obama was even a Senator.
You think censorship is good? Then you want to get rid of Net Neutrality.
You think monopolistic public utilities are good? Then you want to get rid of net Neutrality.
Net Neutrality + revocation of IP from Facebook, Twitter, Google et al would be the best thing to happen to the web.
The article doesn’t do a very good job of explaining the issues surrounding “Net Neutrality”.
ATT, Verizon and Comcast were the biggest opponents of Net Neutrality. You have it exactly wrong.
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