Net Neutrality is the new frontier for the FCC but I have from my university days studied the history of the FCC and media laws-regulations and I’ve read the trade journals during my media working years and beyond.
There’s a lot of economics in it with government picking winners and losers in the media industry.
For the record, Tom Wheeler isn’t so much a Communist as a he is a Lobbyist.
I was reading about Wheeler years ago when he lobbied Congress and worked to buy the politicians for the National Cable Television Association back in the 1980’s. Cable TV was fighting Broadcast TV for its place at the top of the heap, a place it won in the end with Comcast buying control of NBC.
Wheeler also lobbied for the celluar phone industry after that.
He got this gig after giving Obama 500-thousand dollars in campaign contribution.
I look at the issues Obama gets behind and I see benefits for special interests-big business like Obamacare (Hospital Groups, Insurance Companies) and Amnesty (cheap labor for business).
The big guys will win again with Net Neutrality and since they line Republican pockets nothing will be done to reverse this in Congress or even if the GOP wins the White House.
Not only robbing Peter to enrich Paul but charging Peter for the privilege!
If people had confidence in a better idea they would go for it. But they have been dumbed down.
Yes, exactly. Why is control turned over to a government entity that is vulnerable to lobbyists who buy favor for their interests with big money? Oh, wait, did I just describe the united states government?