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Tom Wheeler tweaks net neutrality plan after Google push
Politico ^ | 2/25/15 5:38 PM EST | By Brooks Boliek

Posted on 02/25/2015 7:50:19 PM PST by Mariner

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has made some last-minute revisions to his net neutrality plan after Google and public interest groups pressed for the changes, according to sources at the commission.

Google, Free Press and New America’s Open Technology Institute last week asked the commission to revise language they said could unintentionally allow Internet service providers to charge websites for sending content to consumers. Such a scenario could open the door to an avalanche of new fees for Web companies and threaten their business models.

Google executives on Feb. 19 called aides to Wheeler and staffers for the FCC’s two other Democratic commissioners — Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel — to make their case, according to a company disclosure. Clyburn has been the most vocal proponent of the revisions inside the commission, the sources said.

The exact scope of the language changes — which came to light a day before the FCC is scheduled to vote on the rules — wasn’t immediately clear. They do not appear to alter the main thrust of Wheeler’s proposed order, which would regulate broadband like a public utility to ensure Internet providers treat all Web traffic equally. The commission’s Democratic majority is expected to approve the order over objections of Republicans who say the rules are heavy handed and will harm investment.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
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This is the perfect example why the internet should not be regulated.

Regulators can be lobbied/convinced to see things from the perspective of the prospective winners.

And the losers are SOL.

Even IF they were always well meaning.

And of course we know they are not. They are for sale...if not now, when they rotate out to the private sector.

Before they rotate in again.

1 posted on 02/25/2015 7:50:19 PM PST by Mariner
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All designed to get control over significant Web content prior to the 2016 election. Mark my words.


2 posted on 02/25/2015 7:52:12 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything")
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3 posted on 02/25/2015 7:56:37 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: EagleUSA

What we need is a flash mob of about a million outside the FCC.


4 posted on 02/25/2015 7:56:40 PM PST by Kenny (,)
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To: EagleUSA

This thing is full of “unintended” consequences, just like every other thrown together to see what sticks Obama idea.


5 posted on 02/25/2015 8:01:03 PM PST by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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May this pos have a Marie Antoinette moment in his future, just saying.


6 posted on 02/25/2015 8:02:20 PM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: Kenny

34º and snowing, for tomorrow. Not sure if the flash mob will show up in those temps.


7 posted on 02/25/2015 8:04:43 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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“..This thing is full of “unintended” consequences..”

Yes, and it is full of INTENDED consequences as well. This mess had better trigger various First Amendement SCOTUS challenges. Obama is totally out of control — Thank You Congress.


8 posted on 02/25/2015 8:06:27 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything")
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To: Mariner

Politico must have got to read the 300+ pages we’re not privileged enough to see.


9 posted on 02/25/2015 8:06:41 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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Ruh-roh! If Mr Wheeler doesn’t do exactly what Soros and Obama want.......he is likely in for a world of hurt! That’s what happens when you have a puppetmaster and a willing stooge in charge.


10 posted on 02/25/2015 8:09:26 PM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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Politico must have got to read the 300+ pages we’re not privileged enough to see.

Friends of Obama already know and are Cringing


11 posted on 02/25/2015 8:10:12 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Mariner

Why is Gargle allowed to read the regulations and Congress is not? Hmmmmm?????


12 posted on 02/25/2015 8:11:43 PM PST by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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I was wondering the same thing. How can Google know what is in it and why don’t we all know.


13 posted on 02/25/2015 8:13:49 PM PST by tioga
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This creep is going to be the Minister of Information?


14 posted on 02/25/2015 8:19:24 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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If you look at this schlemiel’s history, he is Mr. Non-Profit of the Internet.

Non-Profit. That is, just waiting for the chance to trade Control for future Gov’t Contracts.

Those who can, do, those who can’t, regulate.

That he is enough of a schmuck to be willing to be Obama’s fall guy for this, says all you need to know about him.


15 posted on 02/25/2015 8:32:09 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: Mariner

The power to regulate is the power to destroy. “You didn’t create this” is about to become the law of the land. Who out there actually thinks nationalizing the internet is a good idea?


16 posted on 02/25/2015 8:37:41 PM PST by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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The power to regulate is the power to destroy. “You didn’t create this” is about to become the law of the land. Who out there actually thinks nationalizing the internet is a good idea?


17 posted on 02/25/2015 8:43:34 PM PST by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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The IRS targeted anyone they considered the government’s enemies and got away with it. They’ll do the same thing with the internet. It won’t be that they’ll charge a site like Free Republic $10,000 for a license and the Huff Post $10. They’ll just simply deny Free Republic’s license application.

The question is simple. What can the people do about it?


18 posted on 02/25/2015 8:55:14 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: tioga

Google, and all the other providers and search engines, are owned by the government.

The simple fact is we all NEED to get some tinfoil.


19 posted on 02/25/2015 8:56:49 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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20 posted on 02/25/2015 9:08:43 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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