Posted on 02/07/2018 12:41:26 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
...in December, the FCC rolled back Obama-era legislation aimed at regulating Internet service providers, meaning providers don't have to treat all online sites equally.
...On Monday, Montana Governor Steve Bullock went a step further and became the first state official to sign an executive order imposing net neutrality in Montana....
...Governor Bullock is here with me now to talk more...
...tell us about your thought process in deciding to issue this executive order? And I'd particularly like to know why you think this is an important issue...
BULLOCK: Well, I think it's an important issue for Montana and, indeed, our entire nation. The free and open exchange of information secured by an Internet has never been more essential to our modern, social, commercial and civic life. I see it through business that the state does.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
At the same time, this HACK Bullock won in 2016. But he only beat the Republican by 3.8%.
Folks in Montana, get rid of this anti-Constitutional liberal. Please.
Hold on there cowboy.
I thought we were a states rights kind of group?
Montana wants to do something you don’t agree with?
Don’t go to Montana. Isn’t that supposed to be the position for a states rights kind of guy?
“Net Neutrality” will make the internet ‘neutral’, the same way the “Affordable Care Act” made health care ‘affordable’.
It puts government in control of what THEY think is fair.
LOL! Net Neutrality? Every time I’ve been through Montana I’ve had trouble getting internet service at all.
This is how RATs will pretend that this is what net neutrality really is. People will fall for it. The next chance they have to make it national again, people will not realize they were duped once again.
At election time, democrats will all act conservative to get elected. Once they do, they will pivot far left.
It’s NOT that easy...
The R party in our state is very weak.
The gOV is a real jackass and replaced a two term commie gOV.
It’s a real pity...historically Montana is a D state.
Senator Burns was the first R to win reelection as a Republican Senator in the history of the state in 1994. He lost to tESTOR in 2006 due to the ‘Abramoff’ ‘scandal’ - tESTOR later apologized to Burns as there was NO ASSOCIATION AT ALL...but that’s history.
Burns was also the first Republican Senator elected since the 17th Amendment was passed in 1913.
The 17th was passed due to a R Senator (Clark) who bribed multiple State reps/senators to vote for him @ $5,000 a pop. This is in the late 1800’s!
He was censured and removed from office, started a rail line from SLC to LA which needed an overnight stop in a new town he created called Las Vegas in Clark County, NV.
He ran unopposed for Senator inMontana after his menaces Daly died.
We are an odd bunch here...and I’m fifth generation Montanan.
I say let him enact his net neutrality. States are the place to experiment. When the citizens realize what it really entails then they can vote him out of office, and repeal it at the state level. My objection is making it the standard across the entire country. That’s when you get screwed and undoing it becomes very hard at the federal level.
I should also add one other point:
This is an EO and our Legislature has already had it’s session in 2017 (limited to three months) and we cannot address this until 2019 the next time the Legislature meets...
Our budget is in the black and we do have a $1 billion coal tax trust fund (CTTF) so we’re doing OK.
BTW, the CTTF cannot be tapped without a 75% vote of the House and the Senate.
Then there’s Jeannette Rankin who we elected as the first female Rep to Congress in the Nation’s history..she was THE ONLY REPRESENTATIVE to vote against going to war with Japan after Pearl Harbor.
A real out of state a-hole!
If you can’t afford the internet, don’t complain. ISP’s have every right to charge what they want. NOTHING IS FREE.
This is not a federal mandate. Montana seems well within their rights to pass such a law.
Somebody may challenge it in court.
But until then, just stay out of Montana.
There are cities and states that I won't go to because I don't like their overall politics.
I'd name a few but that would probably p*ss off some FReepers from those locales.
“ISP’s have every right to charge what they want. NOTHING IS FREE.”
If there is no competition, especially through government monopoly, there is every reason to regulate.
Jackson Hole is in Wyoming.
Yes, there are.
We have one small area - NE of Livingston where it is almost ALL Ivy League folks.
I have several clients there...I suck it up when I’m there and always ‘flip the bird’ to Tom Brokaw’s ranch just across the ‘street.’
Bozeman has over 400 non-profit orgs...in a town of 35,000, 14,000 are college students.
A bunch of blasted leftists are not giving up on their dream of government control of the internet. They are planning a day (possible today) where they are urging people to contact their senators to restore so-called net neutrality.
The anti-consumer Consumer Reports organization is on board with this. Anything that the left thinks is good, must be bad.
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