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To: bicyclerepair
Who even knows anything about this unconstitutional action by the FCC ? Who even understands what net neutrality is? the media sure isn't covering as they are covering Cuomo, and other smoke screens. I bet 99% of Americans have no clue about either of these 2 things.

net neutrality is just another lie it's really just socialism and government control of the Internet.

most of these bills and regulations and laws are just socialism disguised by legalese and given some false name, just like Obamacare “the affordable healthcare act” yeah right it's such socialism and government control .same for this bs net neutrality. give it some fancy sounding name . still same thing. no body knows as the media makes sure to provide enough smoke screens, all the crap they call news which are just distractions

15 posted on 01/02/2015 2:06:29 PM PST by Democrat_media (The media is the problem. reporters are just democrat political activists posing as reporters)
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To: Democrat_media

“Who even understands what net neutrality is?”

Here is an easily understandable real-world example. Last year, Comcast was cited by the FCC for intentionally slowing down your service if you were streaming Netflix — because they would prefer that instead you pay them more money to use THEIR streaming service, Xfinity. This practice is known as “throttling.”

The “throttling” of Netflix users ended when Netflix agreed to pay millions and millions in “extra user fees” to Comcast. That is consumer extortion. You already paid for internet access. You didn’t owe them an extra dime. Neither did Netflix, but Comcast decided to help themselves to a chunk of Netflix profits, since no one wants to pay for Comcast’s stupid Xfinity service.

And the FCC couldn’t stop this consumer abuse, because right now they don’t have the teeth. All they did was “cite” them. Big deal. Comcast pocketed millions. There is nothing, but nothing, to prevent them from pulling the same stunt again.

“Net Neutrality” means it’s illegal for Comcast to mess with your internet speed, depending on how much they can wring out of you or Netflix or any other internet-dependent company. Also, “Net Neutrality” means they don’t get to give high-speed lanes to THEIR internet companies, like Xfinity, while slowing down the competition.

“Net Neutrality” has NOTHING to do with speech. An FCC czar is not going to shut down Free Republic if the FCC is empowered to stop Comcast consumer abuse.


30 posted on 01/02/2015 4:14:17 PM PST by Blue Ink
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