GOP lawmakers urge FCC to ditch effort to regulate Internet

[brooklynite]

Source: Fox News

House Republican leaders are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to back off proposed open Internet rules, warning that allowing service providers to control content on their networks threatens to "derail" the Internet.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio; Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.; Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., on Wednesday urged the FCC to reconsider the rules.

"At a time when technology businesses need certainty to innovate, this is not the time for the FCC to engage in a counterproductive effort to even further regulate the Internet," the lawmakers wrote to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.

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The so-called net neutrality rules would prohibit Internet providers from blocking or slowing down websites but allow them to make deals with content companies for preferential treatment, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/15/gop-lawmakers-tell-fcc-to-back-off-net-neutrality-rules/

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I'll repeat a point I made elsewhere: DON'T assume that "fix is in". Reach out to all of your elected officials, even the Republican ones to protect net neutrality.

[Gman]

2. Here's an issue the left and the right have in common

[Ed Suspicious]

3. I'm stepping away. I can't even think straight right now with all the shit that's falling apart.

[House of Roberts]

4. Which way are they arguing?

Saying they don't want the internet 'regulated' by the FCC, and saying they don't want service providers to 'derail' the internet by controlling content makes no sense.

[House of Roberts]

7. I know about the FCC's recent ruling.

I just don't understand the Republicans, as usual.

[Uncle Joe]

6. It seems to me the FCC is trying to kill Net Neutrality via "death by a thousand cuts" and

the Republicans want to kill it all at once.

[House of Roberts]

8. Yes, they want it shut down before November elections,

because we're too good at using it to beat them.

[Uncle Joe]

9. The Republicans consider an equal playing field to be "regulation."

"Regulation" is the Republican's Pavlov's Bell code word even if regulation insures freedom for the American People.

[Triana]

10. "Reach out to all of your elected officials, even the Republican ones to protect net neutrality."

DITTO.

EVERYONE ought to be writing their congress critters - ALL of them - R & D alike, about this!

[elleng]

13. AND COMMENT ON THE RULEMAKING!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/technology/fcc-road-map-to-net-neutrality.html?hp

[mtasselin]

14. where were they

These gop assholes are also cowards, they wait until the last day to make a stand. PATHETIC

[vkkv]

15. The GOP wants to DEREGULATE! - That can't be good

The Net SHOULD be regulated so that net providers CANNOT give 'fast lanes' to paying / preferred content producers.

The GOP is up to their usual tricks, again.

[Curmudgeoness]

16. Did I fall down a rabbit hole?

Is up down and down up? Did I really just agree with GOP lawmakers?

[Uncle Joe]

17. I don't believe you do, the FCC proposal is bad, the Repubicans' position is worse.

Is up down and down up? Did I really just agree with GOP lawmakers?

The FCC want to slowly kill Net Neutrality, the Republicans want to do it quickly all at once.

[Curmudgeoness]

18. Well, that makes me feel better.

Not about the Net Neutrality issue, but about not agreeing with the GOP. I will have to read up a little more on what the Republicans are proposing. I have heard what the FCC wants to do.

Whew!

[NorthCarolina]

19. So that's the way they're playing it? Better take the Wheeler plan because

the GOP alternative is even worse...

Figures, just like our elections.