Posted on 03/02/2015 7:43:49 PM PST by grundle
Buyer’s remorse is already setting in for Google and other ‘net neutrality’ proponents.
When Google’s Eric Schmidt called White House officials a few weeks ago to oppose President Obama ’s demand that the Internet be regulated as a utility, they told him to buzz off. The chairman of the company that led lobbying for “net neutrality” learned the Obama plan made in its name instead micromanages the Internet.
Mr. Schmidt is not the only liberal mugged by the reality of Obamanet... as details leak out, liberals have joined the opposition to ending the Internet as we know it.
The Progressive Policy Institute said: “There is nothing progressive about the FCC backsliding to common carrier rules dating back to the 1930s.”
The Internet Society, a net-neutrality advocate, said: “We are concerned with the FCC’s decision to base new rules for the modern Internet on decades-old telephone regulations designed for a very different technological era.”
Verizon poked fun at the FCC’s retrograde move by issuing a news release in Morse code and in an old-fashioned typewriter font, dated “February 26, 1934,” the year Congress passed the Communications Act to regulate the telephone monopoly—the law the FCC is now applying to the Internet.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which supports applying the 1934 law to the Internet, nonetheless objects to a new regulation giving the FCC open-ended power to regulate the Internet. “A ‘general conduct rule,’ applied on a case-by-case basis,” the EFF wrote, “may lead to years of expensive litigation to determine the meaning of ‘harm’ (for those who can afford to engage in it).”
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Ive been looking for a PDF copy of that 500 page document..and as yet...nada
Gruber was right. Liberals are stupid.
I know he didn’t say liberals but it is who he was talking about.
We work to pay for the socialists to get a free public education then we have to pay the price of them not learning and leading all of us into these oppressive regulatory disasters. How long do we have to keep paying to educate these fools?
Hoist with their own petard.
Used like a cheap whore that they are.
FUBO
You can’t Complain ,Obama the Only Law In the US says so
This isn’t your fault, but...
I hate it when I can’t read the original article. As a senior, now living in “reduced circumstances”, I can’t afford to subscribe to the WSJ, or other publications.
Is there anything important in the article that I am missing?
Are the liberals really complaining? Seems to me all the comments I have read from liberals is positive.
Tip for reading many WSJ articles that are behind the paywall:
Do a search for the title on google, then click on the google link to the article. For many articles, the WSJ will permit a user coming from a google search to read the entire article, while users linking directly to the article only see a brief summary.
I was able to read this entire article by searching on Liberals Mugged by Obamanet.
i wonder what anonymous is going to do about this.
Exactly right. There are three types of people in Grubber's World: Those on board, those opposed and the stupid ones. Unfortunately, the first and last groups exceed the number of those in the middle group.
This always happens to industrialists who support fascism. But then again, real history is no longer taught or learned. Every day is pretty much ground hog day now.
These libs should realize that they are duped by these people 100% of the time, they just put a little frosting on a crap cake and they eat it everytime.
And they think they are smarter than us?
Please provide a link if you will. I'd love to post a readable link to "social" media to continue my daily grind of reminding all my leftist friends and relatives of just how badly they fubard America....
Click on the top link in the search results to go to the WSJ full article.
Liberals prove one thing: It really IS possible to fool SOME of the people ALL of the time.
It’s 332 pages, and as far as I am aware, they have still not released it.
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