Net Neutrality Can Be Saved, But Only If Citizens Raise an Outcry

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/23312-net-neutrality-can-be-saved-but-only-if-citizens-raise-an-outcry

Now, barely three months after the president identified him as "a strong supporter of net neutrality," Wheeler is reportedly preparing to roll out a proposal that our most digitally-engaged newspaper, The Guardian, delicately suggests would "axe-murder Net Neutrality."

Every indication is that the FCC is preparing to adopt a thoroughly misguided approach to issues of Internet access and functionality that is, itself, a response to court rulings that upended the FCC’s previous thoroughly misguided approach to the issues of Internet access and functionality.

According to Los Angeles Times tech writer Jim Puzzanghera, the latest proposal “would allow Internet service providers to charge companies for faster delivery of their content.”

Gabe Rottman, an American Civil Liberties Union legislative counsel and policy advisor who focuses on First Amendment issues, correctly explains that, “If the FCC embraces this reported reversal in its stance toward net neutrality, barriers to innovation will rise, the marketplace of ideas on the internet will be constrained, and consumers will ultimately pay the price.”

[RobertEarl]

1. I pay $600 a year

For lousy service and only enough data for about 15 movies. That figures out to $40 a movie. And they want more $?

Where is goggle with this? Apple? Are these big companies in cahoots looking for a way to limit competition and become monopolies over the future?

Obama promised us to keep the internet a level field with everyone big and small being allowed to compete equally. Did he lie then, or was he with us and now he's been persuaded to knife us?

How about It Obama supporters? There are records of him saying one thing then and now doing something else. Explain it to us please.

[blkmusclmachine]

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[rurallib]

3. petition link

http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/?source=front_slider

[Enthusiast]

4. "barriers to innovation will rise"

Killing the golden egg laying goose is the American way.