Obama FCC Caves on Net Neutrality -- Tuesday Betrayal Assured

[fatbuckel]

Source: Huffington Post

Late Monday, a majority of the FCC's commissioners indicated that they're going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule.

According to all reports, the rule, which will be voted on during tomorrow's FCC meeting, falls drastically short of earlier pledges by President Obama and the FCC Chairman to protect the free and open Internet.

The rule is so riddled with loopholes that it's become clear that this FCC chairman crafted it with the sole purpose of winning the endorsement of AT&T and cable lobbyists, and not defending the interests of the tens of millions of Internet users.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/obama-fcc-caves-on-net-ne_b_799435.html

[dennis4868]

1. Toothless?

Everything this president does is toothless according to so many here...enough of the hate already....I don't trust Huffington Post....they have an agenda against this president...go to their site for 5 minutes and you can see that clearly....If John Kerry is happy with the new rules, so am I....he has been on this issue for a long time and knows what he's talking about.

Kerry Applauds FCC Support for Net Neutrality Rules
http://kerry.senate.gov/press/release/?id=c2dbd915-060b-4f69-9dd8-16638b943bcb

[Poll_Blind]

3. Another poison pill slipped into otherwise good legislation. You might want to...

...look at this piece which includes commentary from Sen. Al Franken: Franken: Under FCC’s ‘neutrality’ rules, ‘the Internet as we know it would cease to exist’

PB

[dennis4868]

9. Well...

Kerry says the proposed rules are great and Franken says they are not....let's wait and see what the final rules are and then comment on it.

[bitchkitty]

17. Hate?

I guess you can call the intense resentment and disappointment I feel toward Barack Obama hate. But I don't. In spite of the fact that I don't think he will win another election, I will vote for him over the GOP or a third party.

I'm not going to pretend that I am pleased with the things he's done. I will speak up about it. Sorry that offends you. But dismissing the MAJOR disappointment many of us are feeling as "hate" is straight out of the GOP handbook. Try another word.

edit: typos

[xchrom]

2. Well - we will see what happens tomorrow.

The loopholes are not comforting. And that's not
Really neutrality.

[liberal N proud]

4. Obama could suffer greatly from this

His campaign weighed heavily on use of the internet. The question is will people pay more for internet service to participate in the campaign through internet communications?

[lovuian]

5. Yes again promises broken and lies over and over again

very disappointed in him

[dionysus]

11. .

:eyes:

[Recursion]

12. No. God. Can people please learn the subject before getting worked up?

This is what activists have been working for for decades: Net Neutrality. The FCC is getting ready to actually apply network neutrality rules to cable and DSL connections. This is what we wanted.

The bill doesn't include mobile devices. For some reason this outweighs everything else.

[Poboy]

6. WTF

[dionysus]

13. completely manufactured outrage is teh awesome!!!

[brooklynite]

7. "GOP Vows to Fight FCC on Net Neutrality"

from AdWeek:

Just one day after being named chairman and vice chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet Reps. Greg Walden (Ore.), Lee Terry (Neb.) and Energy and Commerce Chair Fred Upton (Mich.) called for full release of the FCC's net neutrality order, blasting the FCC for lack of transparency.

On the Senate side, 29 GOP Senators, including Commerce's ranking member Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas) and Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) sent a letter earlier this week urging the FCC to back down from regulating the Internet.

Certainly sounds like a cave to me.....

[frazzled]

8. Twelfth OP with this title since yesterday

Maybe you need a new scary headline: like Obama FCC Netracide: Earth's Communications to Be Obliterated

And then come Christmas Day, none of us will be posting here anymore. There will be no more free Internet.

Please folks, stop using HP tabloid material. It's the equivalent of Woman Gives Birth to Child with Three Heads.

[Recursion]

10. Wow. The Obama administration adds regulations to a previously-unregulated medium

...a step, mind you, that Bill Clinton decided was too "activist" on the government's part, and people complain that it doesn't also address mobile phones.

[DaveofCali]

14. When did broadband companies own the Internet?

The Internet is government domain.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

16. They always have...it has never belonged to the Governement

The Internet is a group of private networks that have agreed to certain technical standards. The basic technology and standards evolved from DARPANET and some NSF work. However, it has always been private. The government has never owned the fiber backbones or the local distribution nodes.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

15. I wonder what will happen when the courts throw this out

To do this the FCC is stretching the common carrier definition like a Rush Limbaugh in a corset. For net neutrality to really be successful, there needs to be enabling legislation