This is truly outrageous!
“The FCC is considering a 332 page plan to regulate the internet. They’re expected to vote on it later this month.”
Whew. For a minute there I thought CONGRESS was going to vote on it. Boy, am I relieved. /heavy sarcasm
We must inform our congressmen and Senators that the MUST KILL THIS EFFORT.
The President DOES NOT HAVE THIS AUTHORITY!
The reporting on this issue seems really deficient. The federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA) allows independent agencies like to FCC to make regulations only after a defined period of public comments. Those comments become part of the open, public record of any rule-making process.
As a part of the rule-making process, the POTUS is allowed to submit comments to the FCC, just as is any other party — individual, corporate, governmental or whatever. But the POTUS can’t “order” the FCC to do something. And I don’t see how his suggestions could be “secret.”
Net neutrality may be as bad as some people say, or it may turn out basically to be “neutral.” I haven’t studied the issue, so I can’t take an informed position one way or the other. But I sure wish the news stories would do a better job of explaining the procedural issues involved.
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell can put a stop to this but I suspect they own stock in cable companies that will benefit them just as Boehner owns stocks in healthcare companies since Dec 2008