Posted on 10/21/2009 5:43:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
First Amendment: Diversity czar Mark Lloyd's FCC votes Thursday on the issue of net neutrality. Advertised as providing access to all, it will do to the information superhighway what Lloyd proposed for talk radio.
Not much was said when $7.2 billion was included in the stimulus bill "to accelerate broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas and to strategic institutions that are likely to create jobs or provide significant public benefits." The administration has big plans for the Internet like controlling it.
Susan Crawford, the so-called Internet czar, told the Wall Street Journal in April that the broadband billions are a "down payment on future government investments in the Internet." Like in the auto industry?
Speaking to the Brookings Institution on Sept. 21, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski stressed in Orwellian newspeak the need for net neutrality rules: "I am convinced that there are few goals more essential in the communications landscape than preserving and maintaining an open and robust Internet."
In the name of providing access to the downtrodden victims of corporate greed, the FCC proposes to take unto itself the power to regulate how Internet providers manage their networks and serve their customers. The FCC would decide how and what information could flow through the Internet.
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And you think Big Government control is going to provide that?
Can you provide ANY historical context for such a conclusion?
BUT these days there is a lot of mistrust and deservedly so. Any kind of sweeping change proposed by this administration I'm going to be against by default.
Finally, today, we have the actual draft NPRM that is before the commission.
Yes, but both sides do not agree. Going to Rulemaking means Public Hearings, and Public exposure, and most of all, Public Comment. Going to Rulemaking means the only chance for public exposure. Embrace it and grab a bullhorn.
Not provide that, keep it that way.
Big Government will just keep things the way they are?
Welcome to FR. In time you'll find that most of us know better.
There is NO historical precedence for such a thing.
Ain’t that the truth.
From my perspective Net Neutrality is a solution where no problem exists. Bandwidth on the Internet has done nothing but increase for many years now. It is much like the power of computer chips increasing in power at an exponential rate.
Net Neutrality is the government getting involved in "fairness". Nothing but bad can come from it. Less bandwidth, less innovation, taxes!!!
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