Could this be a case of Tom Wheeler's sour grapes over NABU?
Posted on 02/26/2015 4:10:51 AM PST by W.
Less than three hours remain until the FCC votes on net neutrality.
There is an online petition here that is quick and can't hurt. Last word was 3 of the 4 Commissioners want to delay this and let the public see the proposed legislation! Yes! Go sign and leave a comment!
Now that one other thing. It has bubbled to the surface that FCC Chair Tom Wheeler has 'revised' certain portions of his 'legislation' to better suit the demands made by such entities as Google, Free Press and New America’s Open Technology Institute. The question is how did Google, etc., know what to order Wheeler to change? Did they get copies while the American public was denied a chance to read said legislation before the FCC forces it down our throats?
There is also this, as an aside:
It has also come to light [for those late to the party] that George Soros dumped $196 million dollars into the laps of the Net Neutrality entities, which is where all that slick propaganda came from.
Besides a petition, the site links to a place to file a complaint with the FCC.
Sounds like Wheeler is getting used by people who want to harness his indignation but then don’t give a hoot about his cause.
"Congress? What are they good for.
We will remove them, next.
Now, bow before Zod."
Well, Zod can just go bow before God.
I just urged them not to proceed any further on this “Net Neutrality” stuff until the American people have seen it and studied it.
All this comment will go on the web. I imagine they are going to get the word scorching of their lives. I wonder if this is a bunch of fearful pigeons playing rope a dope.
NSTIC is already in motion, FWIW. Anyone who pays attention to IT Security channels can confirm.
Net Neutrality is the new frontier for the FCC but I have from my university days studied the history of the FCC and media laws-regulations and I’ve read the trade journals during my media working years and beyond.
There’s a lot of economics in it with government picking winners and losers in the media industry.
For the record, Tom Wheeler isn’t so much a Communist as a he is a Lobbyist.
I was reading about Wheeler years ago when he lobbied Congress and worked to buy the politicians for the National Cable Television Association back in the 1980’s. Cable TV was fighting Broadcast TV for its place at the top of the heap, a place it won in the end with Comcast buying control of NBC.
Wheeler also lobbied for the celluar phone industry after that.
He got this gig after giving Obama 500-thousand dollars in campaign contribution.
I look at the issues Obama gets behind and I see benefits for special interests-big business like Obamacare (Hospital Groups, Insurance Companies) and Amnesty (cheap labor for business).
The big guys will win again with Net Neutrality and since they line Republican pockets nothing will be done to reverse this in Congress or even if the GOP wins the White House.
They can take NSTIC ‘n’ stick it. In the (garbage). You know that any laudatory adjective applies to the benefit of the people with the power and it ain’t the public. In this case it would be identities that the government can trust.
Not only robbing Peter to enrich Paul but charging Peter for the privilege!
If people had confidence in a better idea they would go for it. But they have been dumbed down.
Nothing else needs to be said.
Yes, exactly. Why is control turned over to a government entity that is vulnerable to lobbyists who buy favor for their interests with big money? Oh, wait, did I just describe the united states government?
There’s probably something in Net Neutrality that will increase the cash flow into Comcast even more considering Wheeler’s cable industry lobbyist background.
So why do Google, Free Press and New America’s Open Technology Institute get to review and submit feedback, and the American public do not? Oh, I get it, we elect them but they pay them.
When this was first announced, I read the statement from the head commissioner on why he was doing this. In his explanation he reminisced on when he was the CEO of an internet startup company that was competing with AOL. His technology centered on cable modem technology where AOL was dialup. His connection speed and reliability were superior but could not compete with AOL because the evil cable companies would not play along with him. I got the feeling from the statement that he was ticked off that he would have had the success of Steve Case, but those evil cable companies just couldn't see his brilliance. So I guess this is his revenge. He became a powerful government employee and now he's going to make them pay..
If you like your internet, you will be able to keep your internet. Period.
No one will take them away. No matter what.
They’ll make it mandatory to have to work in any corporation. Corporations will “subsidize” your Internet access as a work expense. If you ever lose your job, you’ll be required to pay the government to continue to use the Internet.
As much as I love IPv6, I fear it could be used to label each and every individual user on the Internet.
I would dig a link or two if’n you have such.
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