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-Land of the Free
Regulators abolish 'net neutrality' rules in heated hearing that was stopped because of a BOMB threat
2017-12-15
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Net neutrality is the principle that internet providers treat all web traffic equally

  • Obama-era 2015 rules prohibited telecom companies from blocking or slowing down apps that rival their own services

  • Now the FCC's Trump-appointed majority has repealed the rule along party lines, and protesters descended on Washington to oppose the plan

  • One Democratic commissioner said Republicans were 'handing the keys to the Internet' to a 'handful of multi-billion dollar corporations'

  • The Republican chairman said of the time before the rule was adopted, 'The Internet wasn't broken in 2015. We weren't living in a digital dystopia'

  • The hearing room was cleared briefly following a phoned-in bomb threat so explosive-sniffing dogs could be brought in
Posted by:Fred

#12  If something is done by executive order or by bureaucratic regulation it is much easier for the next administration to turn it around. It was not an act of Congress. My fear is the Dims get control of Congress soon and then make stuff like this truly law.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218   2017-12-15 20:29  

#11   I don't think he is a very good POTUS, compared to other good POTUS in the past,

This is one of those times when context is everything. Given what he has to deal with I think DT is doing all you could hope for.

The key here is that while Trump could "theoretically" do more, draining a swamp is hard for one person.

I hoped when he was elected (not my first choice by a ways) was that he would tear the masks off the treasonous Swamp creatures. He is doing that, hopefully that will be enough to ameliorate the corrupt status quo.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-12-15 16:12  

#10  I don't think he is a very good POTUS, compared to other good POTUS in the past,

I think the plural might be POTTI.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-12-15 13:09  

#9  Those on the left think everything Obama is good and those on the right tend to think anything coming from Obama was bad. I always suspect alternative motives from Obama.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-12-15 11:34  

#8  "Net Neutrality" is another one of those false eupharysms from the democrats that the actual regulations do exactly opposite what they are called. This net neutrality thing guarantees that blogs and on line services that do not give equal time to opposing ideas can be shut down...unless you are a democrat. Much like "Affordable Care Act" and "Consumer Credit Protection Acts".

And with a pack of lefties on the panel, all we would have left was big brother.

The left set in place a number of regulations that were supposed to be steppingstones to a socialist/leftist "paradise". Hillary was supposed to continue the work with the media running cover until they were disposable useful idiots of the left. Taken with the weaponizing of the IRS, EPA, DoJ, FBI, BLM, and other agencies, both literally and figuratively, we were on the verge of a totalitarian nightmare.

That's why Trump's election was such a big deal and that's why the left is going knuckles to the firewall to take him down. Too bad the Internet has a long memory and nothing can be said or done without a record.

Our democracy dodged a bullet with Trump. I don't think he is a very good POTUS, compared to other good POTUS in the past, but he is doing just enough good and unwinding just enough of the leftist BS that OBAMA and the democrats put into place to save our way of life.

The millennials and the snowflakes have no idea of what would have happened to their safe places and trigger warnings had Hillary been elected and the master plan put into place.

They should have been reading Trotsky instead of Alinsky to get an idea of what was to come.

I still don't understand what the IRS needed with armored cars...or BLM needing storm trooper SWAT teams.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-12-15 10:50  

#7  It's so tempting to respond to their frantic bleatings on Arsebook but I keep politics off there because my wife dislikes all the whining that it brings.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2017-12-15 10:47  

#6  The left would *love* for the government to provide and rule manage the internet.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-12-15 09:50  

#5  And without that handful of multi-billion dollar corporations, as much as I dislike some of them, there would be no Internet. The alternative is for the government to provide all that infrastructure. Ready for that?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-12-15 09:46  

#4  Net Neutrality was guaranteed to keep smaller ISPs from entering the market with tons of regulation. The big boys can absorb the hit, the small ones can't.

Government choosing the winners. What a fascist idea...
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-12-15 09:11  

#3  But net neutrality was a promise of more Free Stuffâ„¢ and we kno, once promised, it can never be taken away on pain of a stage managed tantrum from the left.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-12-15 08:10  

#2  How dare you return the means of production from the agents of the proletariat who had already seized them in the name of the People(tm)! /s
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2017-12-15 08:03  

#1  Don't worry, the private sector will fix it as they do most things. No one asked you mental midgets to get involved anyway.

Consider it a Blessing to not have to regulate things you have no knowledge of.

And f off
Posted by: newc   2017-12-15 01:05  

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