Posted on 05/19/2017 2:51:49 PM PDT by mdittmar
Press Release
Today, the FCC voted to begin rolling back Title II protections for net neutrality – a boon for multi-billion-dollar internet service corporations, and a huge step back for working Americans. I remain a strong supporter of a free and open internet, and deeply disturbed that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is working on behalf of telecom companies and at the expense of everyone else.
Title II is the legal foundation that allows net neutrality to exist. Under Title II, the Internet has remained open for competition, innovation and creativity. Contrary to what Chairman Pai and the telecommunications industry have claimed, broadband investment has continued apace and Internet service provider revenues have continued to grow since the Commission issued its landmark decision in 2015. Allowing Internet service providers to create fast lanes would give an unfair advantage to people with money, and burden the rest of us with a slower Internet. It would also create barriers for the web entrepreneurs and innovators who have great ideas, but wouldn’t be able to compete on a pay-to-play Internet.
Most importantly, strong Net Neutrality rules have worked to keep the Internet free from discrimination against users, regardless of their race or economic status. You simply cannot claim to support the open Internet and Net Neutrality rules while abandoning and attacking the legal framework that makes those rules possible.
In April, I led a letter signed by 32 of my colleagues in the CPC urging Chairman Pai not to roll back the progress made under the Obama administration to protect net neutrality. My colleagues and I will continue to fight for net neutrality as the rulemaking process unfolds over the next several months.
Dear congressman ellison: Shut up. You lost.
It is not an ‘attack’ and it is also no ‘net “neutrality”.
The innocuous sounding name means government control.
The free market has done a pretty good job with the internet. Leave it be.
anti-American Islamo pr*ck, is almost always against any effective defense of this country or even border control to stop more IslamoNazi terrorist cell members from sneaking in (or being admitted, welcomed under Obama regime rules still in force)
Winning!
This muzzy should shut the f*ck up. *slam is incompatible with the Constitution. Get the f*ck out.
Title II gives the dems the ability to regulate CONTENT on the internet.
This whole thing has been a red herring attack to sucker the masses into demanding government control on how data flows on the internet. Once that is entrenched it’s a simple matter of controlling WHAT data flows on the internet and that’s what dems are after and why they’re pushing so hard for the FCC to control the data and NOT the FTC to regulate the costs of it! (Which is what Ajit is arguing should be handled for REAL net neutrality)
The dems are not here to help you - the dems are here to oppress you.
Net Neutrality (open internet)
Net Neutrality is the principle that data packets on the Internet should be moved impartially, without regard to content, destination or source. The Net Neutrality principle holds that wired and wireless internet service is a utility like gas, water, electricity and landline phone service; it should be available to everyone and subject to government regulation. The term came from "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination," a paper written by Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu in 2003.
Net Neutrality debate
In the United States, internet service providers (ISPs) and Net Neutrality proponents disagree about whether broadband internet is an opt-in service or a necessary utility. If the internet is a utility, it must be licensed by a government agency and customer data cannot be sold.
must?
How is that for structuring the Net Neutrality debate?
That sums it up.
Ellison, a friend of CAIR. Wake-up America before it’s too late.
According to Obama and progs NAMBLA is owed the same bandwidth as Netflix.
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