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FCC Approves Plan to Regulate Internet
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/21/fcc-poised-pass-network-neutrality-rules/ ^
Posted on 12/21/2010 10:40:28 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: DesertRhino
"If you are correct, then why are the statist democrats the sole ones pushing for this? Can you point to any other Democrat policy that is designed to advance free speech? Does it strike you as odd that the people who bring you speech codes, fairness doctrines, advocacy for pulling licenses of stations carrying Rush, regulating internet content for accuracy, etc are SUDDENLY worried about the free flow of information?"
Perfectly stated. The Obama administration is full of people who are exasperated by their inability to control the Internet, talk radio, and Fox News. This is how they get their foot in the door.
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posted on
12/21/2010 12:43:25 PM PST
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: Red in Blue PA
That’s the senate that’s rolling over. Typical gang of 12 BS.
To: Steve_Seattle
Here are the six “principles” of today’s ruling. Once the FCC’s lawyers get through with it, they can mean anything they want them to.
1) Transparency. Consumers and innovators have a right to know the basic performance characteristics of their Internet access and how their network is being managed.
2) No Blocking. A right to send and receive lawful traffic. This prohibits blocking of lawful content, apps, services, and the connection of non-harmful devices to the network
3) Level Playing Field. A right to a level playing field. A ban on unreasonable discrimination. No approval for so-called pay for priority arrangements involving fast lanes for some companies but not others.
4) Network Management. An allowance for broadband providers to engage in reasonable network management. These rules dont forbid providers from offering subscribers tiers of service or charging based on bandwidth consumed.
5) Mobile. Broadly applicable rules requiring transparency for mobile broadband providers, and prohibiting them from blocking websites and certain competitive applications.
6) Vigilance. Creation of an Open Internet Advisory Committee to assist the Commission in monitoring the state of Internet openness and the effects of our rules.
http://blog.openinternet.gov/
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posted on
12/21/2010 12:45:27 PM PST
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: Wisconsinlady
The courts and Congress have both said that the FCC must not do this....the three RATS on the FCC today thumbed their noses at Congress and the judiciary.
The new GOP Congress will control the purse strings....they should COMPLETELY defund the FCC until this bullcrap is repealed.
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posted on
12/21/2010 12:46:00 PM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(A Jimmy Carter got us a Ronald Reagan......A Barack Obama will get us a Sarah Palin)
To: Wisconsinlady
That is a very good question wl and I believe the FCC has overstepped their authority. A quick search of FCC court rulings indicates that the courts have recently determined this as well:
“The fight over net neutrality landed in lawmakers laps Tuesday when a court decision stripped the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of authority to regulate the Internet.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/90909-ruling-on-fcc-hands-congress-a-tough-task
We are quickly becoming a dictatorship with reps from Congress to the Executive flaunting law that they do not agree with and choose to ignore. See also - Gerald Walpin firing, “Illegal Immigration”, offering bribes to Sestak, etc.
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posted on
12/21/2010 12:48:26 PM PST
by
JerseyDvl
(Sometimes the road less traveled.... is less traveled for a reason.)
To: Red in Blue PA
In other news, the 'Comprehensive reform of accepted pleasurable pursuits' bill (CRAPP), has been approved by an overwhelming majority. This bill is expected to regulate the manner in which people have fun. Skiing, shooting, hunting, racing, the use of any machine that uses gasoline, and many other forms of recreation are expected to be banned as a result of this bill. It will also require the federal government to subsidize the purchase of bicycles.
Please note that undocumented migratory workers will be exempt from all bans associated with this bill.
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posted on
12/21/2010 12:54:08 PM PST
by
Celtic Cross
(I AM the Impeccable Hat. (AKA The Pope's Hat))
To: Red in Blue PA
Ain’t that the truth. The GOP play pudgeball.
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posted on
12/21/2010 12:57:36 PM PST
by
dforest
To: devistate one four
the freedoms and liberty established by the constitution are very rapidly slipping away
Democrats and republican politicians are both guilty. Their political system of socialist oligarchy and financial enslavement is a virus within
change you can belive in
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:03:24 PM PST
by
KTM rider
( patriot turned rebel)
To: Red in Blue PA
The 3-2 vote ARE YOU SERIOUS? THE INTERNET IS MADE UP OF BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND 5 PEOPLE COME ALONG AND SAY BTW WE CONTROL YOU NOW?
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:04:40 PM PST
by
Skeez
(O)
To: Cheerio
My pitchfork is ready The time for "pitchforks" is quickly coming to an end. I predict that the time for firmer measures will be upon us within the next 2 years ... if we wish to retain any semblence of freedom. However I suspect that it will be forced upon us in any case
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:07:56 PM PST
by
clamper1797
(Pray for Obama ... Psalms 109:8)
To: Skeez
ARE YOU SERIOUS? THE INTERNET IS MADE UP OF BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND 5 PEOPLE COME ALONG AND SAY BTW WE CONTROL YOU NOW? All yur innernets are belong to us.
To: indylindy
"they" (rep,dem) are all just 2 two colors of the same system. the US government is like the french aristocracy before the french revolution
we are so screwed because generations have been spoiled by affluence and lulled into submission we are being exploited and enslaved by taxes and debt by a small elitist group of very powerful whimps
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:12:06 PM PST
by
KTM rider
( patriot turned rebel)
To: clamper1797
think about it though, it is only about 1,000 out of shape limpwristed silver spoon fools in suits that completly rule our lives and seize nearly half of our paychecks to feed their fat soft bellys so that they can write more laws to control us
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:15:28 PM PST
by
KTM rider
( patriot turned rebel)
To: clamper1797
think about it though, it is only about 1,000 out of shape limpwristed silver spoon fools in suits that completly rule our lives and seize nearly half of our paychecks to feed their fat soft bellys so that they can write more laws to control us
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:15:50 PM PST
by
KTM rider
( patriot turned rebel)
To: Red in Blue PA
Given that they were warned, I’d say one of the first things the republicans in the house need to do is to de-fund the FCC.
Make an example out of them, that the EPA would do well to observe.
To: abb
"Creation of an Open Internet Advisory Committee to assist the Commission in monitoring the state of Internet openness and the effects of our rules." Well, there goes the neighborhood. I better dig up my old BBS software and get used to paying long distance phone charges again. Here decades after underground BBS stuff goes away we enter a new century and it looks like anything that doesn't touch the Internet will be the next generation of free speech like it was prior to the Internet. Anyone else remember the raids on BBS sites back in the eighties? Those couldn't be regulated, either, but the distributors of evil software could be "taken down" by the Feds and they did so with gusto. JMHO
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:19:03 PM PST
by
Rashputin
(Barry is totally insane and being kept medicated and on golf courses to hide the fact)
To: kidd
Technically, this is unenforceable. If the FCC would try to force AT&T to change their business model, AT&T would easily win in court (via recent USSC ruling).
Practically, if the Obama administration cannot get its way in court, it will resort to Chicago-style politics.
This is a blatant disregard for the separation of powers. The Executive branch is ignoring the Judicial branch. I hope the GOP House is ready to play hardball.
I'd normally agree with you, but after the GM fiasco with the bondholders, I am not so sure it matters anymore. It is shocking at the power grab these statists are attempting.
To: Steve_Seattle
The internet has existed to date based on net neutrality. You can enjoy youtube, netflix, online shopping, freerepublic, etc... because the content is not being filtered. That is what the FCC should be enforcing/regulating - no packet of info is more important than the other. THAT IS IT. The government should not be looking at the contents.
The ISPs are going to filter the content of the internet, say bye-bye to netflix, youtube, streaming as you knew it. You want to get to THAT site? Sorry, not on our ISP. Streaming? you need to pay big $$$. The morphing of the internet will come quicker and with much worse results with the telco's foaming at the mouth to monetize everything on the internet.
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:22:25 PM PST
by
SengirV
To: KTM rider
think about it though, it is only about 1,000 out of shape limpwristed silver spoon fools in suits that completly rule our lives and seize nearly half of our paychecks to feed their fat soft bellys so that they can write more laws to control us
You sir, are exactly the type of person Eric Holder has begun attempting to villefy with his "radical" citizens of the US. They try to make normal, god-fearing constitutionalists as radicals. I guess down is up, and up is down now.
To: Red in Blue PA
Like the way they are rolling over on START? Again, the House has no authority over treaties. I'm amazed at how many times that has to be explained.
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:24:58 PM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
("I'd rather lose fighting for the right cause than win fighting for the wrong cause." - Jim DeMint)
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