Posted on 03/25/2021 5:11:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Get ready for Biden's assault on the First Amendment.
The Verge reports that Markey is now on a track to introduce new legislation that would re-implement net neutrality that “would engrave the no throttling, block, or paid fast lanes rules into law.”
Should Markey’s new bill fail, his plan B is to stack the FCC with enough Democrats to take matters into their own hands. He explained to The Verge that “Once we have three Democrats in place at the Federal Communications Commission, I will strongly urge it to reverse the Trump FCC wrongheaded decision and restore net neutrality and the FCC’s authority over broadband.”
Net Neutrality as a political issue was originally introduced by then-Senator Barack Hussein Obama. On October 29, 2007, Obama stated,
“I am a strong supporter of net neutrality … What you’ve been seeing is some lobbying that says that the servers and the various portals through which you’re getting information over the Internet should be able to be gatekeepers and to charge different rates to different Web sites … And that I think destroys one of the best things about the Internet—which is that there is this incredible equality there."
The keyword to note here is government-mandated “equality.”
The radical left organization, Common Dreams is joining the call for net neutrality. It claims “nearly 80 million people in the U.S. still do not have adequate broadband at home-with poor families and people of color disproportionately disconnected.” There is no proof offered for these vague statistics.
By the way, the person who originally coined the term “net neutrality” in 2003 was Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu. He recently joined the Biden White House staff as a top advisor on technology and competition issues.
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Communism is always fair to dissent, right?
I can guarantee that 100% people of color do not have 2.15Pb/s Speed. What are you going to do Joe?
So Google-Twitter-Facebook info-cartel will have Verizon under under its thumb.
I confess I never considered this when the iron curtain came down a few months back.
Why do they need it anyway? They do not even know how to get on the internet according to Joe.
So they want better access to HSI but seek to impose NN which guts network infrastructure investment. I bet the bandwidth givaways for high tech are still in there, too.
Oh, great... why shouldn’t you be able spend more money for more bandwidth? I wish I *could* but all I can get, from the ONLY ISP in my area, Frontier, is what I’m currently getting. The people I get my water from have been scrambling to install fiberoptic, I hope this doesn’t slow them down or kill the effort.
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