Posted on 02/24/2015 4:39:19 PM PST by Crazieman
WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers were about to get the right to charge for the fastest speeds on the web.
The implication: If they didn’t pay up, they would be stuck in the slow lane.
What followed has been the longest, most sustained campaign of Internet activism in history, one that the little guys appear to have won. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote to regulate the Internet as a public good. On Tuesday, Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, all but surrendered on efforts to overturn the coming ruling, conceding Democrats are lining up with President Obama in favor of the F.C.C.
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Millions stay home. Far more than we did last time. Primaries are rigged for winner take all but the Fat faces bush wins with 18% because the rest are conservatives!! We need a tea party at the state conventions to stop “WINNER TAKE ALL !!!@” Run off or run me off!
Let’s face it; OBAMA HATES AMERICA!
OK, I am losing count of all these GOP victories!
I mean they are coming so fast, how can we be expected to keep up!?
These guys are the Universal Champeens of Fail!!
Give ‘em a raise, by God America is lucky to have heroes like these ;/
But no one in the government has the backbone to take him on. We can say, “well, so & so has the power to bring him under control” all day long but no one in the House or Senate will do anything to stop him, GOP or the Rats!
No, he is a dictator now. The only real way to stop him is ......
I can only say that I quit the Republican Party in January and at this point I’m glad I did it.I’m so tired of these cowards and their lies.
I just have to hope a Conservative Party can develop that will be more willing to fight with the Communist that are running our government.
He plans on staying in Washington and is having a house built there supposedly. Is there any precedent for an ex President to immediately set up shop and stay in Washington D.C.?
and is having a house built there supposedly. —
bo’s building a house for the new guy, and keeping the White Hut.
It gets worse: My ISP could decide to STOP their LTE rollout, then shut it all down later thanks to the Obamanet...probably taking the UMTS with it too, since 3G and 4G are more expensive to build and maintain...after all, the bare minimum 3G standard (according to the CCITT) is EDGE.
Thanks to the Obamanet, they’ll probably only be able to profitably maintain the bare minimum...wonder why the UK only got LTE in 2012? This.
What damnable piece of crap legislation will these worthless Republicans NOT cave in to?
Just one.
Will be doing same including ancestry.
What is your issue with Reagan?
That's what they all say. It's what they do that bites.
The end of FR?
Yes it was on the form. I suppose I could have not answered but it was intentional on my part. ;)
The answer will soon be known when another election cycle comes upon us. In 2016, we'll see a parade of so-called conservative Republicans on Free Republic ridicule other conservatives for not supporting the GOP establishment, elitist liberal that will surely top the ticket.
The 1930’s called, they want their regulation back...
Can somebody tell me what is the point of even having the Republican Party. As for Thune he is only there fo personal enrichment.
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