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GOP FCC members want to delay net neutrality vote
computerworld.com ^ | Feb 23, 2015 | Grant Gross

Posted on 02/23/2015 1:02:43 PM PST by W.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should delay its vote on net neutrality rules for at least a month after releasing Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposal for public comment, the commission's two Republican members said Monday.

Instead of voting on Wheeler's net neutrality proposal on Thursday, as scheduled, the FCC should open his 332-page proposal to the public "and allow the American people a reasonable period of not less than 30 days to carefully study it," Commissioners Ajit Pai and Mike O'Rielly wrote in a joint statement.

Wheeler, part of the three-Democrat majority on the commission, immediately rejected the request, however. The FCC received more than 4 million public comments on net neutrality during the past year, and they "helped shape" his proposal," he wrote on Twitter. "It's time to act."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: netneutrality
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Sure, Wheeler. Don't want to piss your stupid boss off! Stifle any discussion, way to go... Can't give the proles any time to figure out your little poison pill for the internet, now, can we?
1 posted on 02/23/2015 1:02:43 PM PST by W.
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No debate no discussion. They want to ram internet regulation down our throats.


2 posted on 02/23/2015 1:05:11 PM PST by plain talk
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Who the *&^* let dim-bulb-crats lead this? IF Bonehead lets this go through (and he will, of course, because he a spinless drunken b*stard), I will personally pay to attend his hanging.

And there better d*mn well be a hanging.


3 posted on 02/23/2015 1:05:19 PM PST by Da Coyote
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"The FCC received more than 4 million public comments on net neutrality during the past year, and they "helped shape" his proposal," he wrote..."

Uh-huh. In other words: 'They don't want it. They're afraid of it. Thanks for helping us make up our mind to go ahead and do it!'

4 posted on 02/23/2015 1:06:47 PM PST by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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A few unelected bureaucrats stand poised to take over that which they have no authority, and do it with the force of law.

Article I Section 1, the clause that established the American confederal republic is gone.

2014 likely viewed my last vote, my last participation in this charade posing as free government.

5 posted on 02/23/2015 1:10:57 PM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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Just for those who may not have seen this, it's how NN is being sold to the brainless twits who can't think their way out of a wet paper bag: Battleforthenet.com, see whose picture is last on the democrat list, scroll down...
6 posted on 02/23/2015 1:11:10 PM PST by W. (Dem0crat-mandated education reform killed American progress. Thanks, morons!)
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To: plain talk

Just like they did 0bamacare!


7 posted on 02/23/2015 1:12:28 PM PST by W. (Dem0crat-mandated education reform killed American progress. Thanks, morons!)
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The request from Pai and O’Rielly that Wheeler release his proposal echoes a similar request from congressional Republicans.

Then CALL the bastard before a select committee and FORCE him to READ the ENTIRE proposed new regulations into the PUBLIC RECORD, he will refuse, then JAIL him for Inherent Contempt while you IMPEACH and remove him.

repeat as necessary.


8 posted on 02/23/2015 1:14:48 PM PST by eyeamok
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FCC = F*%$ Consumer Choice??


9 posted on 02/23/2015 1:16:36 PM PST by eyeamok
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The reason Obama needs this now?

Yes, he wants to control the internet.

The larger reason? He needs a huge debate/distraction to erase ISIS, Immigration, and his Crusader comments from the headlines and fill the public's heads with another controversy.

He's done this Alinsky tactic all along.

10 posted on 02/23/2015 1:17:37 PM PST by what's up
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Uh-huh. In other words: 'They don't want it. They're afraid of it. Thanks for helping us make up our mind to go ahead and do it!'

Yup. It's a done deal already.

11 posted on 02/23/2015 1:22:11 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?)
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Federal agencies now make law and it needs to stop. Take names and addresses of those in DC who support this crap.


12 posted on 02/23/2015 1:22:40 PM PST by drypowder
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And by what authority do they have to regulate the Internet? I don’t remember Congress voting to give them the poser.


13 posted on 02/23/2015 1:26:00 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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That would be practically every Congressman who has ever voted to create and fund a federal agency and gave it the power to create rules with the weight of law. In other words, all of them.


14 posted on 02/23/2015 1:28:28 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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“Its time to act” means its time to grab govt control and throttle the conservative voices on the internet as well as tax the chit out of it.


15 posted on 02/23/2015 1:40:32 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Blood of Tyrants:" And by what authority do they have to regulate the Internet?
I don’t remember Congress voting to give them the poser."

The "poser" is in Washington D.C.
The Power remains with the Congress
and the ability to raise taxes remins with Congress. "Over-Reach" and "poser" will be the defineing characteristic in the history of this current adminsitration !!

16 posted on 02/23/2015 2:02:45 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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“Its time to act” means its time to grab govt control and throttle the conservative voices on the internet as well as tax the chit out of it.

I wish it were that simple. This is much worse than any of us understand. Pay very careful attention this week. I have a feeling much will change by the week's end.

17 posted on 02/23/2015 2:03:57 PM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Wtupid fat fingerw.


18 posted on 02/23/2015 2:05:56 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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Blood of Tyrants :"Wtupid fat fingerw."

Been there , done that !
But you were still more accurately correct with the "Poser " !!

19 posted on 02/23/2015 2:08:03 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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Tom Wheeler = scumbag enemy of the American people.


20 posted on 02/23/2015 2:16:17 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Everytime the cash register rings in a gun store, a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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