Posted on 02/19/2015 5:40:19 PM PST by Nachum
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai is out with a new message to fight net neutrality: “If you like your wireless plan, you should be able to keep it.”
Borrowing the phrase from President Obama, the Republican commissioner penned an op-ed with Federal Trade Commissioner (FTC) Joshua Wright, raising concerns with Obama’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet.
While the president insists his plan is for a “free and open Internet,” Pai and Wright said net neutrality is anything but.
“If you like your wireless plan, you should be able to keep it. But new federal regulations may take away your freedom to choose the best broadband plan for you,” they wrote in the editorial published in the Chicago Tribune Thursday. “It’s all part of the federal government’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet like a public utility—a plan President Barack Obama asked the Federal Communications Commission to implement in November and that is coming up for a vote Feb. 26.”
Pai, who has become the leading critic against Internet regulation, said the most troubling aspect of net neutrality is the “Internet conduct” rule.
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The list, Ping
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This is the place to draw a line in the sand. These bozos will F U the Internet, if we let them, and we must not.
Sieg Heil!
Public comment period can be found at ?
The broadband plan that is best for me? Are they freakin out of their minds?
Why is it that the FCC is working on this issue rather than the Federal Trade Commission?
No kidding..
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“The editorial blasted the White House and the FCC for keeping the president’s plan out of public view. The plan will remain private until the FCC commissioners vote on it. Of the agency’s five commissioners, Pai is the lone Republican.”
“Pai, who has become the leading critic against Internet regulation, said the most troubling aspect of net neutrality is the “Internet conduct” rule.
“It’s a vague rule that gives the FCC almost unfettered discretion to micromanage virtually every aspect of the Internet, including the choices that consumers have for accessing it,” Pai and Wright wrote. “If a company doesn’t want to offer an expensive, unlimited data plan, it could find itself in the FCC’s cross hairs.”
Activists who favor the Internet conduct rule have gone after MetroPCS for offering unlimited YouTube streaming and T-Mobile for their similar plan that offers unlimited music streaming.”
“..Internet Conduct Rule...”
You are probably remember something more recent (if you like it you can keep it) than Hitler, but...
“Hitler came to power on January 30th 1933 and almost immediately set out plans that would give the Nazis total power over all newspapers....
“The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
...On October 4th 1933 the Reich Press Law stated that all journalism had to be “racially clean”. Any Jewish and liberal editors and journalists were sacked....”
“Racially clean” vs. “Internet Conduct Rule”, hmmm.
“The Indian version of Baraq?”
Don’t even think that. He’s the only thing standing between us and Internet regulation disaster.
You gotta admit he looks the part....
“You gotta admit he looks the part....”
Not really. Pai is much better looking. Actually, he’s a real cutey.
If you ask me, he looks much more like Prescott Bush.
Prescott Bush with a Marco Rubio smile.
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