2016 must commit to shredding this monstrous mess.
Government, get your hands off the internet!
Now.
Why is this happening? They are going to make it worse. I have to use to file cases. This is a nightmare.
The rate of invention and innovation is inversely proportional to the amount of government regulation.
A new technology is invented, and because it is new, there are no government regulations covering it. The technology rapidly advances; electricity, autos, the internet, etc. At some point, the government with its endless craving for more power decides to regulate the new invention. At that point, innovation in the technology stagnates and dies.
Something's rotten in Denmark. My understanding was that corporations like Verizon and Comcast WANTED this to pass. Matter of fact, Verizon recently relinquished their terrestrial assets (home phone and cable TV) to Frontier in what was presumed to be a hat tip to the coming regulations. The corporations have been wading through the FCC Title II swamp for decades, they're not strangers to it.
The only thing this will do is raise prices on Internet access for end users while degrading the quality of Internet signal. As networks age and ISPs cannot afford to upgrade, they either raise the prices through the roof to afford menial gains in bandwidth and throughput, or the "pipes" fall apart and eventually Internet becomes spotty across the nation.
Make no mistake, this was a power move on the part of the Obama administration, and the fact that they are STILL not releasing the regs tells me that it's MUCH worse than even what we currently know/fear.
By their silence, Republicans in Congress are complicit in this act.
A Federal court? With black-robed priests legislating from the bench?
Even if the FCC and the regime have overstepped their bounds (again), the courts will hammer it into the legal framework, and the Leftists will use the decision as court precedent to enforce the glorious march of Socialism.
Why can’t the GOPee appointees just leak a copy to anyomous?
I hope JimRob has a plan for an alternate FR site. I suspect that this might be one of the first targets for 0bama’s gestapo.
To really have a loss of sleep night, imagine the following:
the queer-In_Charge, the imposing increase of government regulation, and ......
Orville and Wilbur Wright having finished their first glider, (which would in today’s world give us the Wright flyer), and they having to prove that they built it.
Zero just checking off his bucket list.
Do not comply.
This is power grab and treason.
Impeach obama, NOW!
That mindset is illuminated in a column written by net neutrality advocate Malkia Cyril, founder and executive director of the Oakland-based Center for Media Justice. It is entitled, “Only net neutrality can protect the internet from becoming like TV: white, middle-class and exclusive.” And like the reliable progressive she is, Cyril can’t resist framing the net neutrality issue in those oh-so familiar terms. “If we lose that vote, the most democratic communications platform the world has ever seen could become more like cable TV, a fairly scary place that reproduces the economic gaps and racial hierarchies of the offline world,” she laments. She goes on to insist that “equal representation in a digital economy and 21st century democracy demands net neutrality protections.”
I didn't realize until very recently just how strongly the left sees net neutrality in social justice terms and the degree to which they have organized to see it implemented. They've done a good job of staying low key as they've gone about their work. They won a huge victory yesterday. I'm only now realizing what a huge deal this is. We got seriously out-hustled on this one.
Communist China is smiling.