Posted on 01/03/2015 2:46:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Federal regulators looking to place restrictions on Internet providers will introduce and vote on new proposed net neutrality rules in February, Federal Communications Commission officials said Friday.
President Obama's top telecom regulator, Tom Wheeler, told fellow FCC commissioners before the Christmas holiday that he intends to circulate a draft proposal internally next month with an eye toward approving the measure weeks later, said one official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agency's deliberations are ongoing. The rules are meant to keep broadband providers such as Verizon and Comcast from speeding up or slowing down some Web sites compared to others.
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Internet speed excuse to get thier filthy hands in the door.
If it ain’t broke, FedGov will “fix” it so it is.
If it happens, we should all just drop the internet immediately. I’m 69 years old and survived without it most of my life.
I’ll be like nobama, I’ll have my phone, and my pen...and I can still write checks and call my friends (or, even write them a letter.
A mass boycott would also defang the NSA.
This communist regime knows the internet can be used to stop their plans to impose total govt control.
By controlling the internet allows the dicktator to better control the masses...not unlike CommieCare.
I would love to do that, Frank, but as I am a 34 year old IT professional, I am required to have it for my job. And seeing as most of the country is living on welfare that my taxes pay into, I don’t know that they’d appreciate my giving up on work.
Atlas gotta shrug sometime.
Exactly, it’s what I did before I retired (systems analyst)’ so I understand your situation.
It’s a ploy to control speech and has pretty much kept some politicians at bay...somewhat. Now that most media are commie/socialist in nature, it’s really the only peaceful means we have left to object to, and expose the left.
Also, it has almost wiped out the liberal media as a news (read: propaganda) source.
It puts the choice of the people back into play.
Once it’s gone, it’ll be time to take it to the streets!
Here's why: it has the potential to get the Federal government directly involved in what is allowed online. And that right there is a direct violation of the First Amendment itself.
For some reason the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) continues to support Net Neutrality. Admittedly they are a bunch of libs by and large but they also believe in a free internet.
Anyone have a clue why?
Why support it at all? The Internet is just fine and nobody has a problem. It’s a fake crisis.
We control two chambers, now. Don’t fund the FCC’s takeover. It’s that simple and how it’s supposed to work. Rein them in.
What a quaint idea.
This is not a personal criticism, but the idea that anything can be defunded in the current climate is unrealistic. The baseline budget was increased a whopping 31% in 2009 shortly after Obola took office, ( under the guise of recovery ). Then the stimulus was passed, ( so we forgot what the left hand was doing while we were fixated on the shiny object ) since then the Fed Government has been run on continuing resolutions.
The money is there already, they don’t have to appropriate more to fund Net Neutrality. Obola has had a gigantic slush fund the entire time he has been in office. There would have to be legislation passed by a 2/3+ majority in both houses to ban this activity and bypass a Presidential veto, not going to happen, K street won’t allow a veto proof majority. Thems the facts.
No Congress can bind another Congress. This new Congress can simply undo it. Block the FCC enforcement or pass a bill liberating the Internet from government control. Let Obama veto it. We are winning the Millenials and let’s pile on.
The FCC has no Fing authority here.
Their vote is twaddle.
It’s a power grab at continuing to “regulate” content as the broadcast spectrum moves away from radio and television to radar, wifi, and cellphones.
The internet is a “utility” the same way a printing press is a “utility”.
It’s about regulation, not “fairness”.
Libs wanted to regulate talk radio as well.
While I agree wholeheartedly, there were more than enough "if they cross X line, I'm gonna protest" moments in recent American history that I'm left wondering if there will ever be a Rubicon moment in America before it's all gone.
Hands OFF the web you lefty prigs!
Yep, watch the regulations flow thick and fast to slow down the services for conservative web sites.
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