Posted on 02/07/2015 2:12:10 PM PST by george76
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai released a statement on Obama’s Net Neutrality plan to regulate the internet and blasted Obama for not releasing the plan publicly.
Last night, Chairman Wheeler provided his fellow Commissioners with President Obama’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet. I am disappointed that the plan will not be released publicly. The FCC should be as open and transparent as the Internet itself and post the entire document on its website. Instead, it looks like the FCC will have to pass the President’s plan before the American people will be able to find out what’s really in it.
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First, resident Obama’s plan marks a monumental shift toward government control of the Internet:
It gives the FCC the power to micromanage virtually every aspect of how the Internet works. It’s an overreach that will let a Washington bureaucracy, and not the American people, decide the future of the online world. It’s no wonder that net neutrality proponents are already bragging that it will turn the FCC into the “Department of the Internet.” For that reason, if you like dealing with the IRS, you are going to love the President’s plan.
Second, resident Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet will increase consumers’ monthly broadband bills:
The plan explicitly opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes on broadband. Indeed, states have already begun discussions on how they will spend the extra money. These new taxes will mean higher prices for consumers and more hidden fees that they have to pay.
Third, resident Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet will mean slower broadband for American consumers:
(Excerpt) Read more at therightscoop.com ...
I’m puzzled why Ajit Pai, one of the 5 FCC commissioners, did not release the 332 page document himself.
Just like ObamaCare was.
Whoa. An honest person under obamas watch.
If Obama ever leaves the White House people will be Shocked what this Idiot has done
The Repubs will negotiate to allow the FCC to regulate 1/2 the internet, and then claim a victory.
Just add the control to the “Internet Regulatory Service” and you won’t even have to change the acronym .....
Bingo!
Makes me think some Patriots visited him, why else for the turnaround. Unless he is a patriot too, fighting the administrations edict as best he can.
If I was Ajit Pai, I’d be sleeping with one eye open from now on.
Unless they are also Idiots. We seem to have a lot of them in America nowadays.
This crap needs to be stopped cold! Obama simply CANNOT be allowed to take any more control over our lives. He is a proven liar who always has motives and an agenda that are hidden until it’s too late. We’re wise to him and cannot stand for this.
We should fight this tooth and nail.
They'll "work with" Obola, the Internet will be half-regulated and tax credits will be given to those who'll lose service, then they'll beat their chests and brag about how they stopped Obola from seizing the entire thing.
Thanks for that link. Sounds like somebody understands what’s really going on. My prayers for his safety and success in bringing the truth to light.
Last I checked, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is for Zero’s plan for net neutrality. Makes me wonder about their “purity.”
Apparently the voters who came out and voted for him as well as those who decided to stay home have said that he is allowed to do whatever he wants. His agenda was never hidden. We knew what was coming.
I bet there is some heavy censorship coming. It will not be easily discernible but will just ramp up what the lefty internet billionaires already do with the social sites. All of them will be only too happy to censor their private property for the government.
Sultans don’t “step down” nor do they submit to elections. The sultans of yore were removed by poison or the garotte fairly often.
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