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Tougher Internet rules to hit cable, telecoms companies
Rooters ^ | 26 Feb 2015 | ALINA SELYUKH

Posted on 02/26/2015 6:46:30 AM PST by shove_it

(Reuters) - U.S. regulators are poised to impose the toughest rules yet on Internet service providers, aiming to ensure fair treatment of all web traffic through their networks.

The Federal Communications Commission is expected Thursday to approve Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposed "net neutrality" rules, regulating broadband providers more heavily than in the past and restricting their power to control download speeds on the web, for instance by potentially giving preference to companies that can afford to pay more.

The vote, expected along party lines with Democrats in favor, comes after a year of jostling between cable and telecom companies and net neutrality advocates, which included web startups. It culminated in the FCC receiving a record 4 million comments and a call from President Barack Obama to adopt the strongest rules possible...

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: netneutrality; powergrab; stasi
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To: VanDeKoik

61 posted on 02/27/2015 7:53:24 AM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: shove_it

The House has to vote on it?
In an honest House it would not pass.


62 posted on 02/27/2015 7:56:26 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: shove_it

I wonder how AlGore feels about all this? Wasn’t he the the one who invented the internet? /sarc


63 posted on 02/27/2015 8:03:31 AM PST by CodeJockey
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To: shove_it

More affirmative action ignoramuses hired by Los Federales to regulate things to sheeeeeeet. Bureaucratic empire building at its finest. More tax money stolen from the peasants in the provinces to pay high salaried Federal trough feeders in the greater DC region which already is the wealthiest slice of America


64 posted on 02/27/2015 8:07:44 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

I got that part of it wrong. The House was not voting, the five FCC commissars were voting on this massive power grab.


65 posted on 02/27/2015 8:10:04 AM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: shove_it

Thanks!


66 posted on 02/27/2015 8:41:46 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: shove_it

The problem is the broadband providers aren’t be regulated. There are only a few big ones and they work together. In fact, both dish networks are owned by Comcast and ATT.


67 posted on 02/27/2015 9:27:04 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: John 3_19-21

Telecoms *have* been fighting this. The problem is that 1) they are already heavily regulated and have to temper comments about the FCC because they still have to be able to deal with these people as they do other things, and 2) too loud and you get the “pig squealing” argument.

This is on the people to not be gullible. How’s that been going?


68 posted on 02/27/2015 11:22:57 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Ray76

Ray, thanks for your posts on this issue.

FWIW.

It seems that the FEDS think the free enterprise system has allowed “Some” to become “De-facto” monopolies.

This may be true, but so what. As long as that same system that allowed them to take risk and build the thing in the first place exists for others to challenge them.

IMHO, by adopting these “new rules” they are actually “Granting monopoly status” on those companies. By doing so, the FEDS will now have the ability to tell them what they can and can’t do, including the content they carry. You won’t find any language it the 330 page set of rules that directly say this, but this is only the first step.

Please let me know if my thinking on this is flawed.


69 posted on 02/27/2015 11:43:22 AM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: shove_it
Obama and the FCC don't have the authority to do this

we should file lawsuits to put a stop the these FCC laws/regulations as they are unlawful, unconstitutional , illegal and very harmful to individuals and the economy

This is some scary stuff. I haven’t seen the FCC documents but soros funded this and imo the days for this site , Drudge etc. are numbered as the FCC will now be able to hear grievances against web sites (Rush limbaugh just said this).

I’m looking for another country to get out of this socialist hell hole Obama is turning the USA into

70 posted on 02/27/2015 12:04:09 PM PST by Democrat_media (The media is the problem. reporters are just democrat political activists posing as reporters)
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To: Democrat_media

I’ve pretty much narrowed it down to the Dominican Republic and Panama.


71 posted on 02/27/2015 12:13:14 PM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: 1010RD

Only 3 of the 5 voted for this.


72 posted on 02/27/2015 12:24:37 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: shove_it

The cable companies should get together and announce that all internet bills will double in 60 days. Or better yet that they will suspend internet service all together. By doing so they could beat this.


73 posted on 02/27/2015 1:35:30 PM PST by Revel
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To: Revel

Aren’t the majority of cable companies (Comcast, Time Warner, etc) regime affiliates?


74 posted on 02/27/2015 1:37:03 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: 1010RD

“Insurance” (investment) Co.s - “Banking” (investment) Co.s

Body Mortgages trafficking = ACA


75 posted on 02/27/2015 1:47:43 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: txrefugee

“Oppressive governments (China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia etc. etc.) can’t stand the free flow of ideas.”

You left out the United States.


76 posted on 02/27/2015 4:23:56 PM PST by CatDancer (tagline expired)
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To: shove_it

The NYT Says it’s a win for the little guy....


77 posted on 02/27/2015 4:24:35 PM PST by uncitizen (Mark Levin: "Jeb Bush? No way Jose!")
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To: Democrat_media

So, it looks like if Drudge and Rush and others want to stay online, they may have to relocate abroad, or email or torrent newsletters or podcasts.


78 posted on 02/27/2015 5:19:08 PM PST by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: shove_it

“U.S. regulators are poised to impose the toughest rules yet on Internet service providers, aiming to ensure fair treatment of all web traffic through their networks.”

Guess I can expect my internet to go up in price...and I’m already paying a hefty sum.


79 posted on 02/27/2015 5:54:35 PM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: llevrok
Yup. The same FCC that allowed a Civil War telegraph tax to stay on phone bills since...well... the civil war!

The Federal telephone excise tax was originally levied to pay for the Spanish-American Civil war. The administrating department is the IRS, not the FCC.

80 posted on 03/01/2015 9:39:54 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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