Moyers: Don’t Let Net Neutrality Become Another Broken Promise

[pa28]

http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/02/don%E2%80%99t-let-net-neutrality-become-another-broken-promise/

A call to action:

President Obama could stiffen Tom Wheeler’s spine with one phone call. That’s not likely, given the broken promises that litter the White House grounds. But the FCC meets on May 15. Before then, you can send an e-mail to make your opinion known at [e-mail]. Or direct a tweet to Wheeler @TomWheelerFCC.

After the meeting, there will be a “public comment” period of 30 to perhaps 45 days before they start finalizing any new rules. Speak up. You have a chance to tell both Obama and Wheeler what you think, so that the will of the people, not the power of money and predatory interests, is heard.

By all means use the public comment period. More importantly, talk to people in your circle about the issue and ask them if they are happy with their cable service. Let them know that this new set of rules will open the door to "cablefication" of their internet service and see if they think centralizing and segregating the information on the net is really in their best interest.

Again, lots of good reading at the link. Here it is one more time.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/02/don%E2%80%99t-let-net-neutrality-become-another-broken-promise/

[1000words]

1. But this is out of Obama's control!

The FCC, or something ...

[pa28]

2. Moyers is not kind to Obama here:

"Last May, President Obama named Tom Wheeler to be FCC chairman. He had other choices, men or women whose loyalty was to the public, not to rich and powerful corporations. But Tom Wheeler had been one of Obama’s top bundlers of campaign cash – both in 2008 and again in 2012, when he raised at least half a million dollars for the president’s re-election. Like his proposed new rules for the Web, that put him at the front of the line."

What we're seeing here is a creature from the revolving door making law and policy (again). The question is: does anybody really care they are about to take another epic screwing?

[1000words]

3. So, does Moyers go under the bus?

Basher. Hater. Pony.

[QC]

5. Bill Moyers never really loved him!!!

[pa28]

6. Losing Moyers is kind of like losing Cronkite.

He won't fit under the bus but I'm sure a few people will try to squeeze him into the gap somehow.

[sabrina 1]

10. It is so blatant now, the 'money is speech' policy. Wheeler has such conflicts of interests it's

beyond belief that ANYONE who listened to this President in the campaign where he swore his commitment to protecting Net Neutrality would at the very least have to admit, that this nomination was a betrayal of those promises.

Clapper, a Bush Loyalist, former Security Contractor Corp, Booz Allen, lies to Congress, still in his powerful position where he can funnel BILLIONS to the Private Security Contractors, and there are thousands of them, they are Bush/mostly Cheney construct which we HATED back then.

Either some people are being willfully blind or they never were what they claimed to be from the beginning.

[pa28]

11. As you said. They never were what they claimed from the beginning.

More specifically, I think one set of promises are being made in quiet rooms to megadonors and another set of promises are being made to rank and file Democrats.

Not healthy for the future of the party. We need one set of promises and values or we're going to have a split.

[Jefferson23]

4. Recommend. n/t

[rhett o rick]

7. k&r thanks for posting. nm

[Obnoxious_One]

8. Who's looking out for middle class Americans? Seriously?

[sabrina 1]

12. A question a whole lot of people are now asking. We are waiting for an answer.

[woo me with science]

13. Good question.

[woo me with science]

9. kick