Posted on 02/27/2015 10:52:11 AM PST by W.
Some conservatives want to pursue a legislative compromise. Others are urging more extreme means—and holding the FCC’s funding hostage is not out of the question.
As Internet activists celebrated their net-neutrality win Thursday, Republicans were already plotting their revenge.
GOP lawmakers were virtually unanimous in expressing their outrage about the Federal Communications Commission's vote to reclassify the Internet as a utility. But there is widening disagreement within the ranks about just what flavor of revenge the party should ultimately pursue, such as compromise legislation, a congressional resolution of disapproval, or a fight over FCC funding.
"There's going to be a lot of Republicans in both the House and Senate who are going to want to express their opposition to what the FCC is doing," Sen. John Thune, who chairs the upper chamber's Commerce Committee, told National Journal moments before the FCC vote took place. "If we can't come together behind a legislative solution, I suspect that those other options are on the table."
Thune, the Senate's No. 3 Republican, has been at the forefront of his party's efforts to pursue legislation that would essentially enforce the meat of the FCC's net-neutrality protections without designating the Internet as a "telecommunications service." Though Thune has had some success earning the interest of a handful of moderate Democrats, such as Sens. Bill Nelson and Claire McCaskill, most Democrats have shown little interest in the proposal.
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"Republicans flog FCC with wet noodle, apologize for wetting their own trousers."
No bias here.
The FCC is among the least useful of our federal agencies.
I can see the democrats now, screaming that the GOP wants to shut down the FCC and there will be swearing and nudity on TV. LOL
Great question.
Good point, seems Google [and others] knew enough to have Wheeler change some of it to suit their interests!
This is Operation Choke Point applied to the First Amendment.
Internet is a medium by which every one may publish to every one. Regulating that medium is no different than regulating which newspapers receive paper and ink, when, and how much.
The FCC now demands that ISPs operate “in the public interest”. They will be able to claim that the “critical information needs” of this or that “community” is not being served “properly”, that this or that website is “biased”, that an ISP must provide “balance” in the websites made available over their network. etc.
If you doubt this you need only look at the Critical Information Needs study that the FCC conducted in 2014. They wanted to embed government “researchers” in media organizations to question television and radio broadcasters about “the process by which stories are selected” and how often stations cover “critical information needs” of various “communities” along with “perceived station bias” and “perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”
The FCC has demonstrated their mindset and intention and it is tyrannical. Internet is “the tyrant’s foe, and the people’s friend”
Translation.....republican party is divided on. Actually means complicit to the takeover of this country by the admin.
Teh “progressive” Republican Establishment doesn’t mind Obama’s policies, merely the fact that they’re not the ones administering them.
Real Republicans — the Tea party and other conservatives (and responsible libertarians) — know better.
Google looking out for old number one, while America gets #2.
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.’”
— Ronald Reagan
Nonesense! It’s the Democrats that are split.
The 3 unelected FCC Democrats voted to by pass congress, the Presidency to make illegally make law and regulatory power, outside of congress, their jurisdiction and their U.S. Constitution.
The 2 Republicans voted against it.
Finally, we the people can’t even see it. Which tells you what screw job it is.
Oh but we are suppose to believe the Republicans are split? LOL!
Best solution is legislation that says the obvious: No company, organization, or the government can hinder what a person sends or receives over the Internet. If my Internet says 30MB down/10MB up, 24x7, then that is what I am paying to use. None of their business whether I use it, how I use. If they cannot sustain that service, then they should not offer it. Yes, a utility without peering eyes, throttling, etc. is best. Let and demand people get the service they pay for. Republicans should embrace just that.
That REALLY is the Republican way in Congress.
Sounds EXACTLY like the wording to describe Amnesty Nazis.
Other than being bought and paid for name two things the repooblicans agree on. Name one.
Name one thing they have stood for in favor of constitutional and conservative principles against this communist regime.
I remember them wanting to oversee news. And how much more will the government grow from this? It’s getting to a point where we’re going to run out of producers as we have so many government workers to support. Isn’t that known as slavery when one faction of a society is forced to work support another?
“Isn’t that known as slavery when one faction of a society is forced to work support another?”
Shhhhh! Don’t let the secret out that 100% taxation is full on slavery and less taxation is just varying degrees of slavery.
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