If you like your internet, you will be able to keep your internet. Period.
No one will take them away. No matter what.
Posted on 02/26/2015 1:34:15 PM PST by ThethoughtsofGreg
Overtly political acts are often breathtaking, usually for the arrogance, ignorance and desperation they bring to light. They are made even more so when appointed officials of a so-called independent agency who should be concerned with public policy and technical standards act politically. Today, one’s breath is taken away by the actions of the FCC and its chairman Tom Wheeler.
In addition to seizing control of the Internet, in a purely partisan vote and flying in the face of a Supreme Court ruling (In 2004, the Supreme Court in Nixon v. Missouri Municipal League rejected federal pre-emption of a state ban on municipal telecom services), the FCC has made a move to shred the authority of the states and has decided to force states to allow municipalities to do as they want.
At issue is whether municipalities – cities, towns, counties, etc. – must follow state law when contemplating building, maintaining or continuously upgrading a broadband system with municipal funds. In several instances states have enacted legislation to protect their citizens from runaway spending often done in secret. But the larger issue is not whether government owned networks are a good idea, or under what circumstances they might be deployed, rather it is about the appropriate and lawful balance of state, municipal and federal government power.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanlegislator.org ...
Ready for the free Obamanet commercials for votes??!!!
All the libs are celebrating this as if the internet crawled along at a snails pace and suddenly we are ALL liberated! Yippee! Un-freakin’-real the gullibility of people.
It truly does show the stupidity of people. First, they’ll celebrate over nothing. Then, they’ll complain when things go badly. Then, they’ll vote for the same radical left that did it in the first place.
They're not independent of Democrat politics and the question of what will help left-wingers suppress the voices of the opposition, but that's as it should be, at least as far as they're concerned. That's just what's right.
Yeah! Now the internet will move at the speed of government!
And of course, they will blame the Republicans for not working with the democrats to make it better. Just like they are doing with Health care; and the media will carry the water for them...
Quote of the day.
You can say the same things about republican voters. All you have to do is exchange left for right.
Today, one’s breath is taken away by the actions of the FCC and its chairman Tom Wheeler . . . seizing control of the Internet . . . [and the protection of citizens from runaway government] being vitiated by the federal government is an unacceptable “solution,” . . . .
The main reason that the FCC is getting away with exercising federal regulatory powers, imo, powers that the Constitution prohibits anybody but Congress from exercising, is that constitutionally powerful state lawmakers are unsurprisingly as spineless as corrupt, constitutionally humbled, RINO-controlled Congress is imo.
Obamanet , will you have a 3 month(?) sign up period like Obamacare ?
A Fox News story quotes Chairman Wheeler as saying in reference to our now governing regulations:
These new rules would not only affect your services, it would also give FCC regulators the power to decide what content on the Internet was “just and reasonable.” Commissioner Tom Wheeler makes the absurd comment that the FCC would never use those powers. But in a February 4 issue of Wired, he already hints at ways bureaucrats could start dictating what they view as “threats” on the Internet:
“…my proposal includes a general conduct rule that can be used to stop new and novel threats to the Internet. This means the action we take will be strong enough and flexible enough not only to deal with the realities of today, but also to establish ground rules for the as yet unimagined.”
+1. I second the nomination for quote of the day.
Wuhlll... at least we’ll all be equal.
Like other things from Obama there’s something for big business special interests.
Local governments rules get in the way of one single big government like the European Union for example.....
UKIP stands up for UK sovereignty from the EU and big guys who do international business like Richard Branson say NO.
Tom Wheeler used to lobby for cable television and cellular phone assocations before he got to the FCC.
“You can say the same things about republican voters. All you have to do is exchange left for right.”
I was thinking the same thing. I remember when plenty of Freepers cheered the Patriot Act.
Of course the POTUS at the time was a Republican so it was Okay.
Please understand that Progressives have not and never will understand the “Law of Unintended Consequences”. Wait 6 months and they will be whining about the internet and asking the government to do something to “fix” it which will open the door to totally destroying it.
I watched this crap on CSPAN this morning. Wheeler was absolutely breathtaking in his arrogance and lying. Just beyond belief.
If you like your internet, you will be able to keep your internet. Period.
No one will take them away. No matter what.
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