Obama: Regulate broadband Internet like a utility so it 'works for everyone'

cnet ^ | Nov 10, 2014 | Don Reisinger

[upchuck]

Just what we need. More
big government
What's wrong with "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?" The Internet has existed for 30+ years without the gvt monkeying around with it. Why start now?

Same goes for Internet sales tax.

We all know that whatever the gvt touches turns to shit.

[Paladin2]

Let the NSA rule the net.

[ari-freedom]

FCC should stick to censoring superbowl clothing malfunctions and leave the internet alone.

[GeronL]

Bruce Bartlett says Obama is a conservative President.

lolz

[Arm_Bears]

Hey Obama—Keep your hands off of my internet.

[ronnie raygun]

The idiot is using “everyone” as a ploy to gain control for his own devise

[Paladin2]

Manbearpig invented the net.

[nascarnation]

It’s the Chicago mob.
Follow the money.
I’m sure there’s a regime affiliate or two standing to benefit here.

[Oliviaforever]

Obama is a hardcore Socialist and desires to regulate everything, even your internet and favorite websites.

[soycd]

Then they surcharge it like the phone bill so the freeloaders can get free internet. Big government needs big money.

[lepton]

Reclassification under Title II, which for the first time would apply 1930s-era utility regulation to the Internet,

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Just think about that. It’s not rhetorical...it’s truly that stupid.

[caligatrux]

President Obama urged the US government to adopt tighter regulations on broadband service in an effort to preserve "a free and open Internet."

That's just a bold-faced, Orwellian lie. "Free and open" is the exact opposite of what he wants, and "free and open" is the example opposite of what will result from "tighter regulations" on the Internet.

That's like saying you want to dump sand into a puddle to make it wetter and more liquid.

[lepton]

“We cannot allow broadband networks to cut special deals to prioritize Internet traffic...”

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That’s how major functionality of the internet works. Without it, many parts of it don’t. ...pretty much anything involving real-time, or traffic shaping.

[mongo141]

Is there anything that the A$$ wipe in chief doesn’t want to control?

[mrsmith]

In related news:
http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/boehner-kills-internet-sales-tax-bill/?dcz=

” Tax-free Internet shopping is safe for now thanks to Speaker John A. Boehner.

A bill granting states the ability to force out-of-state websites to collect sales tax is dead, according to Boehner’s spokesman.

“The speaker has made clear in the past he has significant concerns about the bill, and it won’t move forward this year,” said spokesman Kevin Smith. “The Judiciary Committee continues to examine the measure and the broader issue. In the meantime, the House and Senate should work together to extend the moratorium on internet taxation without further delay.”
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[Clump]

He says the regulations are needed to make sure companies don't restrict best access and pick winners and losers.

Wow!! The gall of this guy in mind blowing!!
Talk about classic projection.
The truth is he wants to be the one restricting access and the one picking winners and losers.
Somebody needs to regulate the administration before it is too late.
If I were setting the GOP agenda the WH would be lucky to have hotel style toilet paper.
Their funding would be cut so bad that he might actually resign.
And he would have to buy his own commercial plane ticket home- wherever that is.

[Jim Robinson]

Got to let the heavy hand of government “regulate” the internet to keep it free. Hoo boy. Ain’t totalitarianism grand.

[Admin Moderator]

Ramirez cartoons cannot be posted due to copyright. Desist in doing so.

[gaijin]

When you use a utility —let’s say power— you create public documents.

Lots of times they first spot pot growers by seeing the infra-red signature of equipment those guys use, but it’s legally a grey area.

Now they suspect what he’s doing, they then get his power bill, a public document, and if it’s SKY HIGH for, say, one person, then they can demonstrate reasonable suspicion, and they get a judge’s signature for a raid.

And then that guy goes away, surrenders cash and vehicles, maybe his house, too.

SO:

After you’ve been freeping and so on, it’s perfectly legal for them to see the details of your UTILITY USAGE, and presto..!

You’re a dangerous “terrorist”, or something.