"Wrong! The Problem Is REAL!
You Violent Extremists
Think You Can Disrespect Me
andSay Anything You Want!
But Everything You Say Is Racist Hate Speech!
Oh, and Death to America!"
Posted on 02/25/2015 11:42:27 AM PST by posterchild
Net Neutrality is "a solution that won't work to a problem that doesn't exist," says Ajit Pai, a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Pai is an oustpoken opponent of expanding government control of the internet, including FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's plan to regulate Internet Service Providers (ISPs) under the same Title II rules that are used to govern telephone-service providers as public utilities. Under current FCC regulations, ISPs are considered providers of "information services" and subject to essentially no federal regulation.
He is also sharply critical of President Barack Obama's very public push to influence policy at the FCC, which is technically an independent agency. Last year, it was widely believed that Wheeler, a former head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, would not push for Title II. Pai calls the president's actions—which included "creating a YouTube video of with very specific prescriptions as to what this agency should do"—unprecedented in his experience. Coupled with the fact that "the agency suddenly chang[ed]course from where it was to mimic the president’s plan," says Pai, "suggests that the independence of the agency has been compromised to some extent."
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
The problem it’s intended to address is the problem of unfettered political speech, propagated at the speed of light.
This is a serious problem for our elites. Who, I suspect, will quickly find a way to bypass “net neutrality,” if such a way doesn’t already exist.
The Problem is too much Freedom.
The Fix is Government Control.
There. Make sense now?
Ajit Pai should provide us and congress a complete copy of the FCCs planned regulation!
Who gave the FCC the legal power to do this ?
” Under current FCC regulations, ISPs are considered providers of “information services” and subject to essentially no federal regulation. “
"Wrong! The Problem Is REAL!
You Violent Extremists
Think You Can Disrespect Me
andSay Anything You Want!
But Everything You Say Is Racist Hate Speech!
Oh, and Death to America!"
I would think the Congress could quash this in a single afternoon. The only constituency for net neutrality is a bunch of left-wing think tanks.
I don't hear anyone talking about how the precious "independent voters" are clamoring for "net neutrality."
If Congress drives a wooden stake through this one, who is going to march in protest? No one.
Telephone-service providers as public utilities was a concept that probably worked until the advent of cell phones. Land-line phone service is a technology rooted in the past, and the means of regulating or taxing is also being wiped out by further advancements in technology that eliminates the rationale for continued use of land lines.
Telephone service, either through a network of cell towers, or through satellite phone connections, has taken location-based land lines out of the equation. It is possible to call someone on the other side of the planet without going through all kinds of intermediary linkages or what up to now, has been largely free of regulation, other than by blanket denial of services.
This scheme is denial of services, on the order of denying someone the right to breathe in a lungful of air.
There will be an immediate injunction. Where is congressional over ride? Oh I forgot— we have Mitch McConnell— sorry.
Good question and follow up point.
Net neutrality == The Fairness Doctrine
And will this country survive those who elected this POS twice? Furthermore, and survive the rino party who hoists losers upon us?
McLame could not have been a worse candidate! And Willard? Pfftt. the rinos want to lose, it’s evident.
Dang - off by only $$ 46 million
and this one..
317 pages of FCC Internet regulations . That’s Obamacare for the Internet. That is socialism/communism and it is meant to ruin the Internet and to kill free speech on the Internet. The FCC nor Obama cannot just pass a 317 page law. Only congress can do that. This is unconstitutional and illegal.
We need to email ,twitter and call Congress
we need to let congress know that if they don’t stop the FCC from regulating the Internet that we will vote them out.
We need to tell congress that this FCC regulating the Internet is an illegal action , an executive overreach. Writing laws like these are the province of Congress. Obama nor the FCC have no authority to just write these laws/regulations . Congress has to write the laws not the FCC not Obama. Obama couldn’t get congress to pass net neutrality so he is doing it illegally with the FCC.
Holder’s goons are probably knocking Mr. around as we speak.
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