Posted on 11/10/2014 11:38:48 AM PST by LucianOfSamasota
President Obama urged the US government to adopt tighter regulations on broadband service in an effort to preserve "a free and open Internet."
In a statement released Monday, Obama called on the Federal Communications Commission to enforce the principle of treating all Internet traffic the same way, known in shorthand as Net neutrality. That means treating broadband services like utilities, the president said, so that Internet service providers would be unable "to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas."
Obama wades into a contentious debate that has raged over how to treat Internet traffic, which has only heated up as the FCC works to prepare an official guideline. Those rules were expected to be made available later this year, though reports now claim they may be delayed until early 2015. The debate has centered on whether broadband should be placed under Title II regulation under the Telecommunications Act, which already tightly controls phone services.
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So regulation is required to create freedom and openness?
Reading Obama rhetoric makes me feel like a native American trying to understand what went wrong with the Indian treaties...
Mine works just find now, Hussein.
The undocumented traitor Obola ALWAYS lies,
such as:
“If you like your internet provider, you can keep it.”
Because Regulation!
0bamacare
Will no one rid us of this meddlesome dweeb?
Fixed...
Government controlled Internet.
What could possibly go wrong ?
Owebama just isn’t believable anymore. Nothing he says can be taken at face value.
He lies!
Begs the question: How is the internet not free and open now?
Only a Marxist thinks that more government regulations makes anything more free.
Utility usage is a *public document*.
Not by civil means - according to the lessons of history.
The problem is that the big ISPs want to pick what sites you can use.
Want Netflix? Yeah that's extra.
Want sports sites. Buy our sports package.
Want FR? Sorry, that's only available as part of our extended package.
Here we go again. As someone has already posted, “If you like your internet you can keep your internet.” I mean why should we ever doubt Barry again after his great success and honesty in reforming health care?
They were talking on some news show that they are going to impose a 16% tax on broadband. It don’t get much freer than that. Is there any truth to that?
Net Neutrality will be to the internet what the Affordable Care Act was to affordable healthcare.
“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” - RWR
Why not? LOL!
Regardless, one still has to pay for the use of a utility. No reason for the govt to intervene.
This is Obama’s latest assault on freedom.
Once control is seized it will be exercised to ensure “fairness” for various “communities”.
Recall the FCC’s “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs” scheme to embed government researchers in newsrooms to collect information and to score the organization on their point of view, news topic selection, management style and other “qualitative” factors.
“Obama: Regulate broadband Internet like a utility so it ‘works for everyone’”
And where isnt it?
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