Posted on 11/10/2014 11:38:48 AM PST by LucianOfSamasota
President Obama urged the US government to adopt tighter regulations on broadband service in an effort to preserve "a free and open Internet."
In a statement released Monday, Obama called on the Federal Communications Commission to enforce the principle of treating all Internet traffic the same way, known in shorthand as Net neutrality. That means treating broadband services like utilities, the president said, so that Internet service providers would be unable "to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas."
Obama wades into a contentious debate that has raged over how to treat Internet traffic, which has only heated up as the FCC works to prepare an official guideline. Those rules were expected to be made available later this year, though reports now claim they may be delayed until early 2015. The debate has centered on whether broadband should be placed under Title II regulation under the Telecommunications Act, which already tightly controls phone services.
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I hate to sathis but Obama is right on this one. And this is not new regulation, it’s the current rule, established long before Obama was president. The internet providers are pushing to make you pay more to get the services you want.
That's complete bunk. The only thing the "big ISPs" want to do is charge more for bandwidth hogging content like streaming HD. Sites like FR that use 1/100 or 1/1000 of the bandwidth will not be throttled in any way.
It is only the agitators from the gimme crowd and the big streaming media outlets that want this "regulation".
Obamaphones have internet.
"Free" and "Open" are two concepts that do not apply to the current administration. Not buying this.
Obviously he has polling data that says Millenials stayed home because they were PO-ed at him for playing footsie with this.
Like obamaphones and obamacare, it will turn into more redistribution of wealth. The payers will be picking up the tabs for society’s sponges (democrats).
The poor deserve equal access to the Internet .... and then more yada .... yada .... yada.
“The internet providers are pushing to make you pay more to get the services you want.”
Cant have that. Price controls are the way to go! //////////////////////sssssssssssssss
It won’t be long before the “redistributors of wealth” have everything under their control.
They’ve now got healthcare, communications (obamaphones), government, education, etc.
Obama should regulate his damn mouth and recognize he is basically an Administrator and not a legislator. If he wanted to enact laws he should have stayed in Congress.
“Want Netflix? Yeah that’s extra.
Want sports sites. Buy our sports package.
Want FR? Sorry, that’s only available as part of our extended package. “
And can you point to where exactly they are doing this?
I don’t want some passed around internet myth, I want to see the exact ISP that is working to sort out over a billion websites into tier packages as if the internet is the same as cable TV.
English Translation: Obama: Regulate broadband Internet like a utility so we can tax you and so we can control what you think, speak or say.
I think “free” is the key word — means no cost.
Democrats have been trying to make Internet access free to people on welfare, etc. I presume that that means giving them a free computer too.
Does Obolo really think Ameicans don't recognize a contridictory statement like that? Next stop....Police State.
Be wary of bull feces spread by the internet providers. I personally know one of the people who was one of the designers of the internet, and they designed it to be content neutral and strenuously opposed what the carriers want to do.
The end of net neutrality will just cost YOU more.
Here are 2 things O will say
“Its the right thing to do”
and “These folks all need to use the internet”
Since young people are more internet savvy maybe they will get a bit more of a clue what he is all about
Example off the top of my head? How about AT&T's attempted blocking of FaceTime/Hangouts?
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Net neutrality isn't about giving anyone anything for free; it's about not letting ISPs choose what you can consume. It's about making ISPs "dumb pipes" for the internet and allowing people to choose what they use that bandwidth for.
No one is suggesting that the heavy Netflix user pay the same rate as the bandwidth sipper, but that they both have access to the same services. The general Republican lack of understanding on this issue is not helping bring young conservatives into the fold. They look clueless and out of touch.
Sounds like obammy is going to make workers pay for the worthless to have internet.
We spent 40 years on the cold war to prevent socialism, and we end up getting it via an inside job?
Khrushchev is in hell right now lauging his ass off.
Utter bullshit and lies. None of that is true. What ISP is keeping you from accessing free republic?
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