Posted on 11/21/2014 2:23:30 AM PST by Libloather
President Obama thrilled liberals and Internet activists last week by calling for the "strongest possible" net-neutrality regulations to ensure that all Internet traffic is treated equally.
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"The net result is that every single American broadband customer will have to pay a new tax or taxes to access the Internet," Ajit Pai, a Republican FCC commissioner, warned in a speech last week. "That translates into less broadband adoption, especially among the millions of families that still struggle to make ends meet in this lackluster economy."
Technically, the FCC does not have the authority to "tax." But the agency already collects about $8 billion every year from phone companies for its Universal Service Fund. The companies pass those costs on to consumers in the form of monthly fees on their phone bills. So far, the FCC has rejected calls to expand the fees to other services, such as broadband.
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It'll cost more to access your online Husseincare account at IRS.gov.
The most hated control freak in the world now - Baraq Hussein Soetero Obama
As soon as he pushes this through I am willing to bet right wing sites will no longer be accessible...
bfl
> Obama’s Net-Neutrality Plan Could Mean New Internet Fees
Imagine that.
Is this going to be another “Executive Order”?
Banks, included. All the big corps pushed everyone to go “green” and help eliminate paper statements. We’ll be living in pup tents, praise be to emperor zero.
First Alsace-Lorraine, then the Sudetenland, later Czeckoslavakia, but then THAT time it would be the last, riiiight....?
Right?
You wait, Obama will make everything an EO now. Just because he can.
Look for it to land up in the fed courts.
I’m sure someone could write software to connect laptops via CB. Be pretty tuff fer NSA to snoop that.
The fees and taxes are one thing but the real objective is control of content. Any right wing, conservative ideas, stories , commentators omitted.
Good.
Follow the money.
If you like your internet, you can keep your internet.
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