From Internet to Obamanet

Wall Street Journal.com ^ | Feb. 22, 2015 | L. Gordon Crovitz

[W.]

Critics of President Obama’s “net neutrality” plan call it ObamaCare for the Internet.

That’s unfair to ObamaCare.

Both ObamaCare and “Obamanet” submit huge industries to complex regulations. Their supporters say the new rules had to be passed before anyone could read them. But at least ObamaCare claimed it would solve long-standing problems. Obamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken.

[W.]

Yep.

[molson209]

Obama’s Move To Regulate Internet Has Activists’ ‘Fingerprints All Over It’

[DonaldC]

“Obamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken.”

The key thought!

[jsanders2001]

Yeehaw! Dial-up speed here we come. I’ll see if I can find my old 2400 baud modem and go back to my old BBS speeds

[dhs12345]

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

Ronald Reagan.

[dhs12345]

Wonder if AOL is still in the dialup business? I bet they'd just love it if everyone returned to dial up.

[Yosemitest]

WHY the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF wants to CONTROL the Internet:

This is a "MUST WATCH VIDEO".

President Obama: Do you really love America? ( 3:01)


And from an article about that video:
WATCH: Black middle schooler slams Barack Obama in epic YouTube speech

(excerpt)

...


“Here’s the truth of the matter: I don’t want to be politically correct. I don’t care about being politically correct at this point.


“President Obama, You don’t love America. If you really did love America, you would call ISIS what it really is: an assault on Christianity, an assault on America and downright hate for the American values that our country holds. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion and every single thing that our country stands for.”

He adds, “I hope that one day people will get enough guts to speak out against your downright hatred for this nation.”

Referring to ISIS, he said, “When they kill innocent Americans that have done no wrong except report on what is their constitutional right as journalists and you do nothing about it, you don’t care about their lives. You could care less!

“But here’s what you need to realize: here in America, we don’t back down to terrorists. We fight them on their own battleground and we annihilate them till the very end.

“Here in America, we don’t allow the government to take away what we work for but we continue to work harder so that we may continue to succeed.”

Pearson is executive director of a group called “Young Georgians in Government.”

His Facebook page says he is “committed to fighting for conservative principles and engaging young people in the political process.”

“Most young people really don’t have an interest in government or politics, but we need to pique that interest, we need to make sure that they know, the decisions politicians make are going to affect them,” the student told ABC 6 in a profile story last December.

[Democrat_media]

Obama and democrats are pure evil socialists hell bent on taking away our freedom and making slaves of us

[Varsity Flight]

ACA pop-ups.

[palmer]

WHY the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF wants to CONTROL the Internet:

It's not really that. Obama wants to fill the internet with drivel. The reason why the providers want to block streaming video is to allow content to get through without building expensive high bandwidth infrastructure. By forcing providers to take all streaming video from Netflix and Google (the only players that matter), the government fills the internet with useless drivelous video. There is nothing more useless than netflix and youtube (e.g. compared to our discussion for example).

One could argue that "neutrality" should apply to video, but obviously it cannot, there is not enough bandwidth to let everyone stream whatever they want. A similar argument is that the providers could censor content (wrong, other than throttling streaming video). An analogous argument is that the government could censor content. That is wrong. Tor will allow any content through with hidden servers, etc. Nobody can censor content, the Chinese try 24x7 and basically fail (other than cutting off access or reducing their internet to AOL for China).

To make it clear, without my rural provider throttling streaming video I get no access (zero bandwidth) to do anything.

[W.]

As I read, 3 of the 5 on the FCC member board are 0bamaites, one is a squishy republican who, along with the dems don't want to lose their cushy jobs and one Ajit Pai, who we all heard. Talk about stacking the deck in favor of 0'douchebag. The last two lines of the articke:

"This week Mr. Obama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block Obamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it."

[Democrat_media]

Yes Obama and democrats want to ruin the Internet.

government, democrats and the media are the problem and the main threat we face to our freedom and prosperity. The government/democrat/media complex the evil of our time

[W.]

That’s it! He wants to control the internet to kill any discussion that puts him or his government in a bad light. Can you believe we’re having a discussion in these terms in America 2015?! A president who fears not only information but its distribution network that enlightens citizens and points out nefarious and illegal government actions? This may as well be Soviet Russia 1925, with the only opinions permitted are those that agree with the government and its minions. I begin to see why the douchebag media continuously covers and enables 0bama, he’s doing his best to restore them to being the sole provider of public information!

[bigbob]

Big deal. Whatever he does can be undone if necessary. The office comes with a pen and a phone.

[tanknetter]

Don’t be too hard on Youtube. The how-to videos people put out there are immensely valuable, have easily saved me thousands of dollars by teaching me how to do basic home repairs, changing the brakes and mufflers on my cars, etc.

[W.]

Good luck undoing all the damage 0bamacare has done to the American healthcare system. Shall we just let him FUBAR everything he wants to screw with?

[Yosemitest]

You should research THE ROOT: BIRTH OF BIG BROTHER.

[palmer]

Youtube can be downloaded instead of streamed and can bypass any restrictions that providers put on streaming. And your point is valid, how-to videos are useful. But I don’t think it is a very high percentage of the total.