If you like your internet, you will be able to keep your internet. Period.
No one will take them away. No matter what.
Aye - there's the rub. Anyone who thinks that any agency in this lawless administration will exercise restraint is sorely deluded. Big win for the tyrant.
Dear FCC:
GFY!
Button down those firewalls! This is going to get messy.
I’m sure it will cost us more money. It always does.
Now the botnets will be able DDOS entire backbones.
The government has never exercised “restraint” in implementing and enforcing rules. They just heap more rules on top of rules. Good luck go us all.
Aren’t there two previous court cases that said the FCC does not have the legal authority to regulate the Internet? I also seem to recall a specific Congressional prohibition for the FCC to regulate the Internet. I guess this is what fascism looks like.
“which means users, hackers, tinkerers, artists, and knowledge seekers can continue to innovate and experiment on the Internet, using any app or service they please, without having to get their ISP’s permission first.”
Is this an issue for residential customers? I use business class service since I telework so much and with that, I’ve never encountered any problems from the isp.
Omg. The authors are complete dumbasses
“And a vague rule gives the FCC an awful lot of discretion, potentially giving an unfair advantage to parties with insider influence. That means our work is not yet done. We must stay vigilant, and call out FCC overreach.”
You over educated idiots. Your work is not yet done? You just piled on top of your heads a heck of a lot more work because of your support for net neutrality. Staying vigilant and calling out FCC overreach will do little to nothing about the new tyranny you have supported. Much like obamacare supporters who learned the hard way that they supported garbage legislation, I imagine it will take a ton of bricks to fall on your heads too before you buy a clue.
If you like your internet, you will be able to keep your internet. Period.
No one will take them away. No matter what.
The size 20 foot of the Gummint is once again in the door.
Noting that the FCC was established under the administration of Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR, even if the FCC made the right decision about the Internet, it remains that only Congress has the constitutional authority to make such decisions. So corrupt, RINO-controlled Congress needs to stop hiding behind federal agencies like the FCC with respect to unpopular federal policies.
Fox reports the following:
These new rules would not only affect your services, it would also give FCC regulators the power to decide what content on the Internet was “just and reasonable.” Commissioner Tom Wheeler makes the absurd comment that the FCC would never use those powers. But in a February 4 issue of Wired, he already hints at ways bureaucrats could start dictating what they view as “threats” on the Internet:
“…my proposal includes a general conduct rule that can be used to stop new and novel threats to the Internet. This means the action we take will be strong enough and flexible enough not only to deal with the realities of today, but also to establish ground rules for the as yet unimagined.”
Team Internet?
What a bunch of homes.
I one fell swoop, the FCC just took over all forms of communication, including TV. A 21st Century Pravda. Watch the wrong news channel, get audited.
Did they read the regulation they support!
Will they ban Smoke Signals next?
“But now we face the really hard part: making sure the FCC doesn’t abuse its authority.”
Name ONE federal agency that has NEVER ABUSED it’s authority...
(crickets...)
No. What “Team Internet” did was let the Government in the door. It doesn’t matter that the enacted a narrow set of rules “now”. People never learn.