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 didnt 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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Nyt says the little guy won because we are going to get Internet regulation for the public good. Oh yay!!!
Just like the “little guys” won with communism
SD has never had anyone good since Karl Mundt, and he was known to cave some too.
What’s your take on “net neutrality”?
I been avoiding posting on the subject here.
I have heard valid sounding arguments for both sides.
Is the GOP supposed to shutdown the FCC to protest this?
Personally since I get my TV/movies directly from cable rather than the internet, I just hooked up new FIOS Quantum centralized DVR equipment yesterday replacing the older multiple DVR boxes.
I’ve avoided it also because I can’t figure out how or even if it would effect me.
No one knows that, no one knows what will happen with or without it.
Most of the complaints here are based on Obama being the one to do it, if Bush did it 8 years ago many of these same people would have cheered.
Recall how his medicaid drug plan was ‘free market’ based, but it sure wasnt ‘free’
Exactly. A majority of American voters voted for Obama TWICE. Those morons are still out there and their numbers increasing every bastard baby and illegal alien day. The Republic is doomed.
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