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Posted on 11/15/2014 8:25:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Big telecommunications companies and many Republicans in Congress have criticized President Obama’s proposal for strong rules to prevent the creation of fast and slow lanes on the Internet. They claim this is heavy-handed government regulation. But in fact, it is correcting an old mistake.
Even if broadband is reclassified as a telecommunications service, no one is talking about having federal regulators approve consumer rates or requiring companies to lease their networks to competitors. What Mr. Obama wants is an Internet where service providers handle all content sent and received by consumers equally. His approach takes into account what has happened in the past decade, and it levels the playing field for businesses and protects consumer choice.
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When we elect a Republican President, I think the New York Times should be regulated.
The gvt can’t stand that the Internet has survived for years without help from “government regulation.” It frustrates them to no end that the Internet is a world-wide success without their help. It’s just killing them.
Allow me to add just one word to this quote from the article: Even if broadband is reclassified as a telecommunications service, no one is talking about having federal regulators approve consumer rates or requiring companies to lease their networks to competitors. YET!!
Once the bureaucrats get their greedy little hand on the Internet, it is finished.
Look at you cell phone bill...about 30% taxes and fees...the consequence of government regulation to “protect” consumers.
LOL!
The increasingly irrelevant NYT would like some help silencing the competition and opposing voices.
Like everything gov’t....’boogie-man’, ‘only the 1-3%’, voluntary then mandatory.
S.S.
Income taxes
seat belt laws
...
Freedom and Liberty, once relinquished to gov’t, rarely exists...let alone returned.
The rise of the Internet decimated the print media. Why would anyone think the Times has the nets best interests at heart?
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are : “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan
Just to throw some basic free market economics at the problem. Generally speaking you cannot correct the mistakes of a market with regulation, which end of being some form of more or less complex wage and price controls, or outright rationing.
If a market is not functions efficiently history shows that the cause is almost always due to previous regulation, or there is incomplete information needed to make a purchasing decision. Two wrongs don’t make a right you can’t fix these problems with more regulation.
Ronald Reagan said government is not the solution.
So you're in favor of allowing child labor?
They want to CONTROL it. Just like the Chinese do.
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Perhaps those geniuses at the New York Slimes could name just one agency that fedgovco hasn't fu*ked up.
Maybe he can get that buffoon Gruber (Goober)to explain it to all of us stupid folks.
The Goober has said enough, he just needs a good flick.
So you’re in favor of allowing child labor?
We now seem to be entering an age when children are forbidden to work many jobs until they are 18 and unable to learn a trade while still of school age. The government continues to crack down on children helping on family farms. Even many college graduates struggle to find a job. If the democrats have their way and raise the minimum wage, even fewer young folks will be able to get a job.
I would argue that there is a definite need for government regulation to be kept at an absolute minimum. Child labor might be a good start and probably a good end to the regulation.
Ronald Reagan instead of trying to use the regulatory power of government to force prosperity (how that hope and change working); instead he helped free the economy to build prosperity.
They put off a good show, but the private organizations of hackers and digital pirates, good examples being Pirate Bay and Anonymous (4chan) show otherwise. When you get past the few big bang actions the government makes, such as SOPA, you see the hollowness of their power, or actual care for the little people. Pirate Bay, not even a national government, has deployed at least a satellite and broadcast drones to keep broadcasting their torrents.
I actually can agree to part of that. The whole farm work thing is rediculous. A lot of the college graduates, while the stats say employment, are working low-wage jobs.
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