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Tom Wheeler tweaks net neutrality plan after Google push
Politico.com ^ | 25 Feb 2015 | Brooks Boliek

Posted on 02/25/2015 7:27:29 PM PST by W.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has made some last-minute revisions to his net neutrality plan after Google and public interest groups pressed for the changes, according to sources at the commission.

Google, Free Press and New America’s Open Technology Institute last week asked the commission to revise language they said could unintentionally allow Internet service providers to charge websites for sending content to consumers. Such a scenario could open the door to an avalanche of new fees for Web companies and threaten their business models.

Google executives on Feb. 19 called aides to Wheeler and staffers for the FCC’s two other Democratic commissioners — Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel — to make their case, according to a company disclosure. Clyburn has been the most vocal proponent of the revisions inside the commission, the sources said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astroturf; fascism; fcc; google; netneutrality; obamalegacy; obamunism; orwelliannightmare
More fun, when will it end?
1 posted on 02/25/2015 7:27:29 PM PST by W.
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To: W.

When bureaucrats fear for their lives.


2 posted on 02/25/2015 7:29:21 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: W.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has made some last-minute revisions to his net neutrality

But how will we know since we're not allowed to see the secret documents to do a version comparison.

3 posted on 02/25/2015 7:29:34 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: W.

“More fun, when will it end?”

When the Obama administration is impeached, which looks increasingly unlikely with our gonad challenged Congress.


4 posted on 02/25/2015 7:31:43 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: W.

So, the American taxpayers are not allowed to see the contents of Barry and Wheeler’s secret internet takeover agreement, but Google and Barry’s network of Marxist groups have been given copies and are tailoring it for their purposes.


5 posted on 02/25/2015 7:31:46 PM PST by purplelobster
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To: W.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has made some last-minute revisions to his net neutrality

which he’ll add back in later when no one is watching


6 posted on 02/25/2015 7:36:42 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: W.

How do all these groups know the language of the regulation if it isn’t public?


7 posted on 02/25/2015 7:37:44 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: W.

Our government is for sale.

I read today where Soros and some other liberal group have given over $196 million to influence FCC changes.

Soros doesn’t even pay taxes in the USA.

I am so sick of this BS.


8 posted on 02/25/2015 7:39:23 PM PST by boycott
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To: purplelobster
but Google and Barry’s network of Marxist groups have been given copies and are tailoring it for their purposes.

That's what it sounds like.

9 posted on 02/25/2015 7:39:54 PM PST by Cementjungle
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10 posted on 02/25/2015 7:41:06 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: W.

They’re not gonna roll all the fun out at once. What ever they took out will be put back in eventually.


11 posted on 02/25/2015 7:41:27 PM PST by uncitizen (Obama hates America.)
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To: KarlInOhio
TRANSPARENCY
12 posted on 02/25/2015 7:47:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: purplelobster

Remember when Google was all on board with China censorship?


13 posted on 02/25/2015 7:47:28 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: W.

Oh, I’m sure Google stood up for the right of the individual. /s


14 posted on 02/25/2015 7:51:03 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: W.
Just how the Hell did Google know that Internet companies could be charged every time they sent info to their "customers" - hmmmmm?

And how did this SOB Wheeler decide to make some changes in his super, secret takeover of the Internet that pleases Google, when he refuses to go before Congress - hmmmm?

15 posted on 02/25/2015 7:56:30 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: W.

These monsters are carving up our very freedoms, with impunity, and sneering at us while they do it.


16 posted on 02/25/2015 8:21:32 PM PST by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: KarlInOhio; All
From article comments at Politico:

Tom Wheeler's sour grapes over NABU?

17 posted on 02/26/2015 3:35:26 AM PST by W. (Dem0crat-mandated education reform killed American progress. Thanks, morons!)
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To: W.

This is the government our founders warned us about...no election will ever fix this.


18 posted on 02/26/2015 4:47:18 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: W.

I think Google is behind this.
They have these Mega-Server farms not yet fully on-line with very fast access.
I suspect Google wants to charge extra for touching their Servers.


19 posted on 02/26/2015 11:42:51 AM PST by Zathras
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