Posted on 03/21/2015 11:39:00 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg
Cable and telecom industry lobbyists are launching an effort to convince lawmakers to support new legislation that replaces federal Internet regulations.
After the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its new regulations to treat the Web like a public utility, major companies are now sensing an opening to escape what they consider crushing net neutrality regulations.
“The 400-page order really is starting, to us, a process on the hill,” said one telecommunications industry lobbyist who was granted anonymity in order to speak freely about the plans.
“Our focus and our priority [is] to makes sure everyone understands what the FCC did, understand the legal risk of what the FCC did and see if there’s a common path forward,” they added.
“Having this document allows us to start having that new conversation.”
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“The 400-page order really is starting, to us, a process on the hill,” said one telecommunications industry lobbyist who was granted anonymity in order to speak freely about the plans.
IOW, BOHICA...
Congress Critters will now sell the INTERNETS to the highest bidder...
Woohoo, Net Neutrality be awesome shiz baby!
EVERYBODY, government bureaucrats, government regulators, politicians of all stripes, etc. need to quit trying to fix something that’s NOT BROKEN.
BFL
Anything the government does now is based on Congress Critters and other Gub'ment blood suckers selling legislation and/or regulation deferments so as to line their pockets with lobby money.
“We’ll keep fixing it until it’s broken” -Bureaucrat #43284c
Looking twenty years ahead....what is the landscape of TV and cable?
Over half of the population will be data-streaming their favorite shows. A few networks like Discovery and History will be around because they do unique stuff. ABC, CBS, and NBC? They will downsize because they can’t produce the stuff that the public wants...high-quality scripts and creativity. Netflix and Amazon will be producing shows that people want to watch....shocking people with a season of only twelve to fifteen shows instead of twenty-four that the networks opt for.
It’s the data stream that matters, and if you look around cable hasn’t exactly made it’s way into the vast nature of America. To reach the bulk of America with data streaming...you need to share tax-revenue of some type. Most of us would disagree with this and opt for the consumer to drive the trend, but that would delay things by a decade (minimum). I think their ‘secret’ plan is to reach some plateau of data streaming to every single American by 2025....no matter how remote they are...we will reach them.
Many people in government swore an oath to the U.S Constitution and NOT a stinking politician.
The FCC has NO AUTHORITY to bypass the U.S. Constitution to write NEW law and/or enforce NEW regulation. It just does not work that way as much as they WISH it and EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.
Three unelected people DO NOT HAVE THAT authority. Three people are not more powerful than the Legislative, Executive or Judicial Branch. They KNOW IT TOO.
Anyone enforcing this is a collaborator of a stinking control freak politician, betraying their oath to the U.S. Constitution and ultimately to we the people.
Good men and women did not die for this country to have a little power hungry control freaks declaring they have powers that the U.S Constitution does not grant them.
Anyone enforcing this is a collaborator and ultimate Traitor to the U.S. Constitution and the Republic.
This is the legislative pushback. There will also be a court pushback.
Long-time reader, first-time poster.
You’re right. The FCC jumped it this time.
However, it’s monopolistic cable vs the government. It’s a catch-22 for conservatives. This should be a free market thing!
I know a little about this because I’m tech, so also take with a grain of salt, because I have a vested interest in my business. Big telcos try to get more money out of sites like mine for better access to consumers. Consumers want the best access they can get. That last is “net neutrality” - telcos can’t ask more for different traffic.
I hate hate hate that the FCC is involved. It’s scary. Now it moves from “hey, stop monopolistic business stuff” to “the government is in command now”. Nobody wants that.
My $0.02
I would argue that fiber optic broadband is actually a localized monopoly with no rate or service regulation that rips off consumers.
There is no localized competition
It doesn’t work so long as competition is not permitted
Broadband was surreptitiously brought into homes piggybacked on TV cable. Local governments did not realize they had power that was surrendered to tv cable companies
Yeah, but that’s what they do, and have been doing for decades in every Federal agency. And there’s not a damn thing that will be done to stop them.
Obama will veto any change to the law.
True, as in there's not enough bandwidth (money) for everyone to stream whatever they want. So the companies throttled. Now, under Obama's plan, they can still throttle but lawyers will lie and sue and collect class action money. That part is still about the money. I read most of the 300+ pages and the rebuttal. Obama's regs are about money for lawyers.
Everyone can not simply stream whatever they want whenever they want. There is not enough BW in the air out here (rural) and fiber is prohibitive. That might work in cities where they can run the fiber.
The real problem with streaming video is that it is all crap. You can argue that it is "high quality" and creative but that is because you are comparing it to even worse crap.
You should know that really isn't the case. The internet easily routes around much more vigorous censorship in China and Iran. The best that those authoritarian regimes can do is cut off nearly all access and deliver an AOL-like pseudo internet. The cable companies here obviously cannot do that. So what content you want, you can easily route through any available services, up to the BW of streaming video.
What you cannot do is route streaming video inside something else because streaming is already too high to be hidden in something else. So the bottom line is that the cable companies can censor (i.e. charge more for) nothing, except streaming video which is mainly dreck anyway.
The FCC laid out the welcome mat to the Crony Capitalists. Just undo exactly what the FCC did and nothing more, nor less.
Net Neutrality repeal?
Post more.
Under McConnell, my bet is that they're masochists.
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