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GOP makes U-turn on net neutrality
Politico ^ | January 16, 2015 | Kate Tummarelllo

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: internet; net; neutrality; regulation; uniparty
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To: C19fan
Unreal but really, who is surprised? Here's some more information regarding our Rollover Republican's:

GOP RETREAT: REP. JEFF DENHAM SAYS PARTY’S QUIETLY CRAFTING BROAD IMMIGRATION BILL: click here

McConnell: Senate Will Try to Pass' House Immigration Bill: click here

I'm already pissed off and the day has hardly started yet.....

21 posted on 01/16/2015 6:49:38 AM PST by capydick ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.")
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To: C19fan

The Democrats propose to tear down the Washington Monument, and the Republicans respond with a workable plan to do it in three stages.


22 posted on 01/16/2015 6:50:02 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: C19fan

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?


23 posted on 01/16/2015 6:57:45 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

All I can tell you about is that if Obama says we need it, then we do not need it.


24 posted on 01/16/2015 6:59:15 AM PST by sport
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To: C19fan

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.


25 posted on 01/16/2015 7:03:24 AM PST by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: sport

If the R party adopted that as their platform, we’d be far ahead


26 posted on 01/16/2015 7:04:50 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: C19fan

Can’t wait for it to take thirty minutes to pull up the Drudge Report by FCC Decree.


27 posted on 01/16/2015 7:05:01 AM PST by The Toll
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To: C19fan
The typical Republican these days:


28 posted on 01/16/2015 7:18:54 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: C19fan

Quoting ...

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.


29 posted on 01/16/2015 7:20:29 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: C19fan

Republican, pronounced to rhyme with Betrayal...


30 posted on 01/16/2015 8:06:14 AM PST by null and void (The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)
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To: Aria

“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.


31 posted on 01/16/2015 8:07:26 AM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: AU72
Wake me up when the Republican Congress does something conservative.

Sure thing, Mr. Van Winkle!

32 posted on 01/16/2015 8:07:56 AM PST by null and void (The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)
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To: C19fan
top Republicans in both chambers are making plans to legislate their own rules to ensure the agency doesn’t go too far.

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.

33 posted on 01/16/2015 8:12:44 AM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: C19fan

If you like your internet, you can keep your internet.


34 posted on 01/16/2015 8:16:12 AM PST by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: C19fan

>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 >


35 posted on 01/16/2015 8:22:34 AM PST by Darnright (No, We Love Yeshua (Jesus).)
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To: AU72
"Wake me up when the Republican Congress does something conservative."

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.

36 posted on 01/16/2015 8:34:43 AM PST by buckalfa (First time listener, long time caller.)
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To: shooter223

Exactly.

Any time you hear “neutrality” out of a gov’t like this one, watch out as it’ll likely be anything but neutral.


37 posted on 01/16/2015 8:36:26 AM PST by 1066AD
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To: C19fan
One more time...

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."

38 posted on 01/16/2015 8:46:40 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: All
Welcome, once again, to the UNIPARTY!

FMCDH(BITS)

39 posted on 01/16/2015 9:31:22 AM PST by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: buckalfa

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.


40 posted on 01/16/2015 9:33:02 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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