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As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality
New York Slimes ^ | 2/24/2014 | Jonathan Weisman

Posted on 02/24/2015 4:39:19 PM PST by Crazieman

WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers were about to get the right to charge for the fastest speeds on the web.

The implication: If they didn’t pay up, they would be stuck in the slow lane.

What followed has been the longest, most sustained campaign of Internet activism in history, one that the little guys appear to have won. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote to regulate the Internet as a public good. On Tuesday, Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, all but surrendered on efforts to overturn the coming ruling, conceding Democrats are lining up with President Obama in favor of the F.C.C.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fcc; internet; netneutrality; obamanet
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To: joethedrummer
How much more are we going to take?

Lots and lots, as will our children and their children. Any change other than through elections (which will not result in much change), is merely talk of lawnchair citizens sitting behind computers.
101 posted on 02/25/2015 9:36:54 AM PST by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: Don Corleone
Enjoy being able to post what you just did.

By this time next year, or maybe the year after that, that post will be something that will get you arrested.

Well, don't worry, actually. You will never read the news in the first place, so you won't be able to make the post.

102 posted on 02/25/2015 10:38:14 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Wemocrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Biggirl

2016 will solve nothing.


103 posted on 02/25/2015 10:39:36 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Wemocrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: NFHale

You are correct, American born;)


104 posted on 02/25/2015 11:16:43 AM PST by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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To: dfwgator

You are correct.


105 posted on 02/25/2015 11:22:11 AM PST by impimp
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To: 1010RD
Done!
Durbin has gotten an earful from me and the kid did not hang up on me. Guess I was not rude enough!
106 posted on 02/25/2015 11:30:04 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: seeker41

Thanks!!!

I’ve always thought we need to emphasize our “American-ness” more, and our ancestral roots less.

Words mean things; and the order in which we say and use words means things too.


107 posted on 02/25/2015 11:52:55 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: John S Mosby

Well, it is not Net Neutrality in the Swiss term of the word, but a definite war aiming to equalize the bandwidth advertisement by siding for “minorities” leftist fraud products, a complete government gender and race division justifying rationing of so called “allied” and conspiring non minorities.

Since Soros is behind it and is for a totalitarian view of Open Society and against Laissez Faire, the ultimate aim is campaign finance and information controls, forcing us into 501c type abuse.

Will the American people have their phone lines shut off? It is entirely possible that we will be treated worse than Chinese hackers, or such hackers will be facilitated.


108 posted on 02/25/2015 12:26:39 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: Chgogal

Great job. Did you hit Kirk, too?


109 posted on 02/25/2015 1:07:22 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Crazieman

Thune denies:

http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/net-neutrality-FCC-regulation-internet/2015/02/25/id/626719/?Dkt_nbr=qzplt3v9&nmx_source=&nmx_medium=widget&nmx_content=794&nmx_campaign=widgetphase2

Yet, just taking up “net neutrality” is a stupid issue. Leave the Internet government free and watch the innovation.

Where’s the problem anyhow? It’s just a made up issue.


110 posted on 02/25/2015 1:17:00 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Lazamataz
You bet. The end of internet freedom starts tomorrow.
111 posted on 02/25/2015 1:49:20 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: 1010RD
Newsmax, that is NOT what the issue is about? Why is the media confusing this issue? It's not about what ISP providers can charge. It is about censorship! Is the media just stupid?
112 posted on 02/25/2015 1:51:26 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: central_va

I hear ya, I hear ya


113 posted on 02/25/2015 2:50:16 PM PST by ducttape45 (Let's face it; OBAMA HATES AMERICA!)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Or compromised.


114 posted on 02/25/2015 2:53:16 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Sam Gamgee; Travis McGee
Why is the media confusing this issue? It's not about what ISP providers can charge. It is about censorship! Is the media just stupid?

No, the media is brilliant. They are destroying and allowing to be destroyed any dissenting voices.

It will not occur right away. But legislation will quickly be introduced... oh, I'm sorry, we don't do that any more. Obama will quickly sign an Executive Order that will ban Hate Speech and Terrorism Speech.

The definition of those will be: Any criticism of Muslims. Any criticism of gays. Any criticism of the Orwellian Police State. Distribution of any news not coming from the Communist Propaganda Organs of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the NYT, the WP, or the LAT. Blockages of the often-insightful news coming from England.

The FCC will be granted SWAT teams, and they will be used to kill and arrest anyone who dissents from the official propaganda line. And you know what? You will never hear about those raids. That will be forbidden news, too.

We are now to be 100% just like the Soviet Union, in absolutely every way.

Matt, I believe it has just become time for you to pull the plug and get on the escape pod. Look for a nicer country, if you can find it.

115 posted on 02/25/2015 2:54:52 PM PST by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: onedoug; Jim Robinson
The end of FR?

Within a year. Maybe two.

116 posted on 02/25/2015 2:55:37 PM PST by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Crazieman
I think one reason Obama is keeping his net neutrality regulation a secret is that he's going to eliminate anonymity on the internet.

No more anonymity means they can find you if you post something they don't like.

Also, anything political will be treated as a campaign contribution and must be reported to the FEC.

Next, if it's a utility then we can't have anonymous people using it, just like how phone, water, and electricity users are not anonymous. Ignore the fact that you are not really an anonymous user of the utility because your ISP knows you and bills you each month. It's just the traffic content that is anonymous, but the usage is paid for.

And finally, if anonymity is to be banned, then this will also ban all personal encryption and VPN services that spoof internet traffic, with the possible exception of business telecommuting and online banking and stock trading traffic, but only if decryption keys are registered with the government.

That's my prediction, anyway.

-PJ

117 posted on 02/25/2015 2:55:48 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Big money likes liberty for itself. A free market in Internet makes trouble for them. We can find out too much. I suspect that they, as wealthy elites, can buy a lot of news stories.


118 posted on 02/25/2015 3:00:44 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Crazieman

You have made a very shallow observation

They still lack the raw power to absolutely prevail. They need 60 votes. If you re unable to see that you are not looking

I know it’s PC to bitch and moan, even if the bitching and moaning is not justified.


119 posted on 02/25/2015 4:23:55 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: 1010RD
Yup! Very nice staffer. Told him Kirk needs to reprimand McConnell for caving. Called Boehner’s staff and told them to hang tight.
120 posted on 02/25/2015 7:42:17 PM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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