Posted on 12/15/2017 9:57:43 AM PST by Mariner
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission did the unthinkable: It scrapped the net neutrality regulations that some of us have come to know, but all of us, whether we’re aware of it or not, have come to love.
It was because of net neutrality that we could stream Netflix and Spotify on the cheap, access the full political spectrum of news without interference and poke around Facebook for free without our web browsers slowing to a crawl. But all of that may change now with the Obama-era regulations gone, and there’s not much any of us can do about it but rely on Congress to help us.
So it’s lucky, then, for those of us in Sacramento that our city is in a unique position to take advantage of the new regulatory environment.
(I’m going to pre-emptively hedge on the word “advantage” here because, in truth, no consumer has an advantage over a telecommunications company with the protective shield of net neutrality out of the picture. That’s why protesters who were out en masse last Thursday denounced FCC Chairman Ajit Pai as a “puppet” and chanted “Whose net? Our net!” But I digress.)
Some of you might recall that last month, Verizon announced it would make Sacramento the first city in the country to have 5G – or fifth-generation – residential wireless broadband service. We beat out at least two other cities for it, following a few months of being a test market.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Under NN, this Verizon venture would be illegal. She reluctantly concedes, absent "good old fashioned regulation", competition is the next best thing.
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Libs lose more government freebies.
If the Sac Bee was for Net Neutral bs, that is more than enough reason not to want it.
NN is only 2 years old, before NN you could stream netfix, go on face book and use spotify, nothing has changed. Other than entire government department full of pencil neck geeks filling out reports all day. To me, that is the only difference. Less government is better
Yep, none of us had these connections before Obama fixed things/s a few years back, that were obviously NOT broken.
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Rush’s take on NN is that the Left was terrified the internet would become like talk radio, something out of their control.
I suspect there’s more truth in that than we know.
https://imgur.com/a/h232O#PC2wR2l
Take the time to read this analysis of the whole shebang. NN was the end piece of a total package to control what was viewed information-wise regarding the internet. One will come away with beads of sweat on the forehead in realizing what was to some under HIllary.
Even a socialist (almost) gets it.
Her main point - perhaps inadvertently spoken - is that local governments are always the culprits when it comes to whether or not their citizens have access to multiple providers.
We have three in my city - about to be four. Not including being able to use 4G wireless if you want to pay that price.
If people don’t like their options, they need to discuss that with their local politicians and leave the FCC out of it.
This “repeal” will have very little affect on the end user. Their Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon bill may go up - but that’s about it.
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In theory, routers could be electronically hooked up to serve as regional networks.
A regional network might span all the way from Wilmington, Delaware to Hartford, Connecticut.
In much of the day, the regional network might span I-95 from Homestead, Florida to Bangor, Maine using routers or cell phone Wi-Fi in cars.
E-mail providers and merchants like Amazon might create regional network portals.
ISP and cell phone bills might go the way of the dinosaurs.
Top 3 of Erica D. Smith
*She might not be the leader Sacramento wants, but she’s the leader Sacramento needs - Black Lives Matter leader.
* The drug war destroyed black neighborhoods. This Sacramento weed policy could help - Middle-Class people want poor people to get high.
* The secret to bringing homeless people in from the cold? Just ask Sister Libby - Refer to Weed Policy above.
That’s already the way it works, with a 40gb backbone.
Yesterday Trump literally saved the Internet and freedom
1. The Internet grew very well for 20 years without Obama’s and soros’ “net neutrality”
2. Pai the FCC commissioner said in a video while being grilled by liberal rags like politico that a lot of small isps have not been able to expand their network because Obama passed this net neutrality bit of communism in 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrJe6fk_h94
3. Net Neutrality was just one move in a sequence of events to completely take over the internet. A sequence that happened so slowly none of you noticed it happening at all: This lays it all out :
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/152760068/the-globalist-takeover-of-the-internet
4.Soros funded and is behind this “net neutrality”
http://ijr.com/2015/03/270555-soros-groups-dropped-82-million-push-net-neutrality-interesting-thing-happened-placeholder/
AS that link proves. Freedom and capitalism last in America only as long as Trump is president
We literally dodged a bullet
And that Internet take over was just one way we could have lost America. The massive immigration wave Hillary was planning , Hillary continuing Obama’s policy of adding 97,000 pages of federal government regulations per year and many other ways Hillary would have been the death of the USA.
Obama has teed up the ball for Hillary. Hillary just had to hit it and she would have. Only one thing stopped that Donald Trump.
What really needs to go are municipalities giving competition crushing franchises to cable and Internet providers. In my town we are stuck with a Model T speed DSL provider or a highly unreliable cable company. A locally owned all fiber optic ISP is literally at our city limits, but is being blocked by the city franchise. My cable bill recently shot up 200% when all the one year teaser rates expired, but my only alternative is to go back to the only other cable/ISP provider in town with service so unreliable that I had 3 technician service calls in a 48 hour period.
I didn't notice any difference with the change....so it's just going back to what it was....without government control. I think it's called....Free Market.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Had the ‘Net Neutrality ‘ regulations actually even gone into effect?
Thanks for your clarity and documented sequences of trying to take away our internet!
Again $oreA$$ was the funding and mastermind of this aborted bad law for America.
Yesterday Trump literally saved the Internet and freedom
1. The Internet grew very well for 20 years without Obama’s and soros’ “net neutrality”
2. Pai the FCC commissioner said in a video while being grilled by liberal rags like politico that a lot of small isps have not been able to expand their network because Obama passed this net neutrality bit of communism in 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrJe6fk_h94
3. Net Neutrality was just one move in a sequence of events to completely take over the internet. A sequence that happened so slowly none of you noticed it happening at all: This lays it all out :
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/152760068/the-globalist-takeover-of-the-internet
4.Soros funded and is behind this “net neutrality”
http://ijr.com/2015/03/270555-soros-groups-dropped-82-million-push-net-neutrality-interesting-thing-happened-placeholder/
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