Posted on 02/24/2015 4:39:19 PM PST by Crazieman
WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers were about to get the right to charge for the fastest speeds on the web.
The implication: If they didn’t pay up, they would be stuck in the slow lane.
What followed has been the longest, most sustained campaign of Internet activism in history, one that the little guys appear to have won. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote to regulate the Internet as a public good. On Tuesday, Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, all but surrendered on efforts to overturn the coming ruling, conceding Democrats are lining up with President Obama in favor of the F.C.C.
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Good thing we voted them in, right?
Thune has been a complete disappointment.
How much more are we going to take?
This entire article is a@@ backwards, and hoists the BS claim about “charging for higher speed” as the straw man. The change here will ALLOW the big ISPs to do what they want and do just that.
The article, no surprise... is a GD lie.
And Thune— a bought dog of Comcast, ATT and you name em.
Thune has been a complete disappointment.
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The same thing could be said about his pathetic party.
I recently requested a new voter registration and relinquished my repub status to no party affiliation. My race is Scot_Irish_American.
Yeah! just like they won on Obamacare! The LIV's are truly too stupid to be let out on their own. The NEA and the Marxist professors in the university system have done their jobs well.
Republicans are worthless. Hillary wins big.Millions stay home.
They are all pathetic. We should send B52s over K Street.
Old Commie Hohnny Weisman is a dedicated Obamabot.
He was caught back in 2006 Attending the how to be a good radical classes Pelosi gave the upcoming Dem aides !
We have no representation in congress. None at all. If a third party doesn’t pop up soon there’s no hope.
Republicans are worthless. Hillary wins big.Millions stay home.
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You forgot to add: Victorious Democrats reclaim Senate. Republicans maintain control of House by the slimmest of margins.
2016 is shaping up to be one ugly mess, that’s for sure.
I am not sure of that, but what I am sure of, is that they are going to shove A LOT more down our throats before it's over. I wish it was different.
I did the same thing. But did they really ask you about your race? They didn't do that here in Massachusetts.
It was not totally unexpected. The GOP is what it is. And its never going to change. Ever.
Immigration, net neutrality and keystone dead. Man this guy doesn't skip a beat. He's turned the Presidency into a dictatorship. Payback is hell.
I recently requested a new voter registration and relinquished my repub status to no party affiliation.
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That is about the best we can do at this time. Continuing to support and elect them is clearly an exercise in futility.
Don’t look any farther than the source, they’re totally wishing it was already over. This fight should have started way earlier, but there are lots of PO’d people screaming about this everywhere I go and not for the ‘little guy’ like the article claims.
Now who won a historic election again last November??
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