Posted on 02/26/2015 2:08:28 PM PST by Nachum
Federal regulators did not need President Obama to arrive at the net neutrality rules that it voted to issue on Thursday, according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler.
After the agency on Thursday voted to issue tough new rules that fell largely in line with those the president wanted, Wheeler countered Republican concerns that the White House put any undue pressure on the legally independent agency.
“I’m quite comfortable that we made this decision with independence and wisdom and based on the record,” he told reporters after the vote. Wheeler has previously said that he began to think about the basic outlines of the change — which legally reclassify Web service to regulate it under tougher rules — last summer.
That was months before Obama, a supporter of net neutrality since his 2008 campaign, made his vocal pronouncement asking the agency to take the controversial step, which came days after the midterm elections in November.
“The president has been well-known — on record for a long time in favor of net neutrality,” Wheeler said. “So have I.”
“Presidents always communicate their opinions to the FCC,” he added. “That’s nothing new.”
Republicans have raised alarms that the FCC’s new rules were developed only after coordination with the White House.
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Why tell us that? Are we going to hate the rules? Are the rules illegal? Does 0bama need plausible deniability because of them?
These people are so transparently corrupt it is jaw dropping.
Kiss the Internet good-bye.
And NO ONE voted for this - Obama dictated it to his gofers and midget minions.
Let history record that, in addition to all the other Big Government crap he’s laid down, Barack Obama destroyed the Internet as a free means of political expression.
Obama got his “net neutrality” ideas from the Marxist originators of it, esp. Prof. Robert McChesney (Un. of Wisconsin), in his early writings on the media.
Look him up at www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org and www.keywiki.org (under his name).
The details are all there for everyone to see.
McChesney is a hardcore Marxist, like his admirer, Obama.
That explains what is behind “net neutrality”. Control the means of communications and you have a captive audience to your propaganda, and you can punish your enemies by putting them out of business.
Remember, Obama said that he would force a raise in electric prices that would put the coal industry out of business, and he is.
Once a red, always a red.
Nobody voted on Obama Amnesty either.
Easy to say that, when you are not under oath to tell the truth.
This net neutrality is just socialism for the Internet and Obama , Soros groups etc. pushed hard for this. It's Obamacare for the Internet meant to ruin the Internet and for the gov to control content
This net neutrality is just socialism for the Internet. Obama , Soros groups etc. pushed hard for this. It's Obamacare for the Internet meant to ruin the Internet and for the gov to control content
Yes, but if we start listing everything His Royal Highness has done in the past six years on which no one voted, we couldn’t fit the list in this forum.
did they push license requirements to ‘operate’ a website?
Lies, lies and more lies.
I will miss the connivence of the internet. I like all of my computer toys.
I am 66 years old, so I guess leaving the internet will be easier for me than it would be for our youth. At least I know how to live without it.
Frankly, I do not understand what all this will mean, but I do know that I want nothing to do with this kind of government control.
When they actually switch the government internet on, I’ll be switching mine off.
Sickening.....
“Let your representatives know”
They know.
“This needs to be turned around by legislation ASAP.”
1. Obama Veto
2. If they can override the veto then most likely they
can impeach him.
3. They would need a spine to do it.
Wheeler is a LIEberal.
LIEberals LIE!
Hahaha, how 2010. Now, you have to pass it so you can't find out what's in it.
Is there ANYONE in obammy’s federal gubmint who isn’t a mookabooking LIAR?
good questions.
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