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Why the F.C.C. Should Heed President Obama on Internet Regulation
New York Times ^ | November 14, 2014 | Editorial Board

Posted on 11/15/2014 8:25:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When we elect a Republican President, I think the New York Times should be regulated.


21 posted on 11/15/2014 9:09:48 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


22 posted on 11/15/2014 9:15:20 AM PST by upchuck (The language of government now is word-spew. ~ h/t Peggy Noonan)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look at you cell phone bill...about 30% taxes and fees...the consequence of government regulation to “protect” consumers.


23 posted on 11/15/2014 9:18:21 AM PST by The Great RJ (This)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL!

The increasingly irrelevant NYT would like some help silencing the competition and opposing voices.


24 posted on 11/15/2014 9:27:21 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: ViLaLuz

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.


25 posted on 11/15/2014 9:27:29 AM PST by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The rise of the Internet decimated the print media. Why would anyone think the Times has the nets best interests at heart?


26 posted on 11/15/2014 9:42:20 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: i_robot73

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are : “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan


27 posted on 11/15/2014 9:47:47 AM PST by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


28 posted on 11/15/2014 9:53:02 AM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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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.

So you're in favor of allowing child labor?

29 posted on 11/15/2014 11:50:19 AM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Chode

They want to CONTROL it. Just like the Chinese do.


30 posted on 11/15/2014 11:52:37 AM PST by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: dfwgator
that too...
31 posted on 11/15/2014 12:13:18 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: wastedyears
Oh, what a surprise, it’s the New York Slimes.

Perhaps those geniuses at the New York Slimes could name just one agency that fedgovco hasn't fu*ked up.

32 posted on 11/15/2014 3:14:17 PM PST by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
No one should ever heed Obama’s advice. If it must be done, wait until his term is over. We all know this president will lie, cheat, do whatever it takes to further his agenda.

Maybe he can get that buffoon Gruber (Goober)to explain it to all of us stupid folks.

33 posted on 11/15/2014 3:18:29 PM PST by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: dearolddad

The Goober has said enough, he just needs a good flick.


34 posted on 11/15/2014 4:12:52 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Age of Reason

So you’re in favor of allowing child labor?


There are always trade offs. Whose responsibility are the children in the first place, do they belong to the government?

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.


35 posted on 11/16/2014 10:23:43 AM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: a fool in paradise

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.


36 posted on 11/17/2014 7:17:00 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

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.


37 posted on 11/17/2014 7:18:19 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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