Posted on 01/16/2015 6:14:36 AM PST by C19fan
Republicans in Congress are doing a 180 on net neutrality as the Federal Communications Commission prepares to issue new rules within weeks. For years, GOP lawmakers have adamantly opposed any rules requiring Internet service providers to treat all Web traffic equally, calling them unnecessary and an example of Washington overreach. But now that the FCC is moving toward issuing a tough net neutrality order that would subject broadband to utility-style regulation — an approach endorsed by President Barack Obama — top Republicans in both chambers are making plans to legislate their own rules to ensure the agency doesn’t go too far.
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I'm already pissed off and the day has hardly started yet.....
The Democrats propose to tear down the Washington Monument, and the Republicans respond with a workable plan to do it in three stages.
I’m confused. Is Internet access a service or a utility? Is package delivery a utility or service? Is a gas station? Mail? If it’s a utility, why is the FCC involved?
All I can tell you about is that if Obama says we need it, then we do not need it.
I keep holding out hope that there will be some glimmer of a chance that the R’s will do anything different from the D’s, and all I keep seeing is garbage like this!!! But hey, least we got that R majority, huh? Lol. Douchebags...every single R, and their rotten turncoat traitorous voters, too.
If the R party adopted that as their platform, we’d be far ahead
Can’t wait for it to take thirty minutes to pull up the Drudge Report by FCC Decree.
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Thune’s committee includes Sen. Ted Cruz, who in November called net neutrality “Obamacare for the Internet.” Now, Cruz “looks forward to having a vigorous discussion on how we can best ensure the Internet remains a forum for freedom and innovation” as the FCC eyes stricter regulations, according to a Cruz spokesman.
Republican, pronounced to rhyme with Betrayal...
“It seems that Soros and the Muslim Brotherhood are really running this country and now the Republicans are going along with it?
WHY???”
Because the republicans are no different than the sociopaths otherwise known as democrats. Indeed, most republican politicians are also sociopaths. The current dynamic of democrat vs. republican is the biggest lie perpetuated upon the people of the United States. Obviously, the Uniparty is not conservative, and to buy into any one of their lies trying to convince you otherwise, while their actions plainly show that which you afore suggested, would be foolish.
Perhaps you were just being rhetorical.
Sure thing, Mr. Van Winkle!
Just giving the agency the authority to get their foot in the door is going too far.
Big government will soon be micromanaging every aspect of the Internet.
If you like your internet, you can keep your internet.
>When a federal appeals court last year threw out the FCC’s previous attempt at net neutrality rules, Walden and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called the court decision “a victory for jobs and innovation … by keeping the government’s hands off the Internet” and preventing the government “from playing the role of traffic cop.”<
Fred Upton is the horse’s back end who saddled us with horrendously expensive light bulbs. We should all trust him to lead the charge. < /S >
Sad reality. Out of the 300 or so GOP members in the current Congress, fewer than 100 could be considered Tea Party type conservatives, and many of those from the Class of 2010 such as Trey Gowdy, seem to be morphing into Lindsey Graham clones. With those numbers plus Obama and his veto pen, there is little or no chance of any thing conservative actually becoming law.
Exactly.
Any time you hear “neutrality” out of a gov’t like this one, watch out as it’ll likely be anything but neutral.
I redundantly keep saying.. "it's becoming more and more apparent we have a one party system performing a non stop version of Kabuki theater on America."
FMCDH(BITS)
I have come to the sad conclusion that what we have come to regard as Conservatism (Reagan-era free-market philosophy and traditional cultural values) is gone and will not be coming back in my lifetime. The country appears bound and determined to try all of the alternatives.
Of course none of them will work. But by the time we reach that conclusion most likely I will have joined that great Tea Party in the sky.
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