The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is warning that the new regulations governing the internet which will be voted on later this month, will grant government control of the net, increase taxes, and require hidden fees that will make the internet less free, more expensive, and less innovative.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai issued a statement on Friday that highlighted some of the changes in the internet being sought by the government. Indeed, some of the details are alarming.
More: The FCC’s Big Internet Power Grab Comes Directly From the White House
Desperation in action.
Our dear leaders have finally realized they have lost their monopoly on information control.
As the web is vital for fact checking our presstitutes and their comrades, there has never been any doubt that government would try to seize control.
Can they succeed?
Quite funny how bureaucrats work, when caught lying to their employers, they do not stop lying.
Instead they seek to destroy the mechanisms by which they were first exposed.
Very much like the actions of these Human Rights Tribunals in Canada, stripping the citizen of their rights in the name there of.
Protecting the population by “regulating” the internet.
Remember this important message; “Do not steal: Your government hates competition”.
I don’t get this at all. Who is the chairman of the FCC? The republican Ajit Pai, mentioned in the first link as the chairman, or Tom Wheeler, referenced in the 2nd link as the chairman?
They can’t have 2 chairmen concurrently.
I do get the part about the WH push. If the WH pushes something, there needs to be a very strong and public push back. Obama and his crew have only made moves that are negative for America (and the rest of the world).
Shades of CISPA. Fortunately privacy issues loomed large here, but everyone overlooked the shadow government it was actually designed to serve. The Senate tabled the motion.
@ Niall Mor
http://www.fcc.gov/leadership
This should help.
HE is NOT going to regulate net as a Public Utility…there are 2 parts to Title II stuff, they are looking at making it a Common Carrier, not a PU. That means it would be open to all, just as UPS is a common carrier, not a public utility.
Tech Dirt explains here:
https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150205/05435629916/stop-saying-that-fcc-is-treating-internet-as-utility-its-not.shtml
Bingo!
Governments hate it when burning sunlight reveals the totality of their corruption.
The thought police only want to expose to the “right kind of information”.
They want to create “Pravda-Net”…
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
WEB 3.0 Gotta love it.
Oh post while you can, I bet SDA is on the gov’t radar to tax or shut down.
No, there is no limit on what the God-Emperor can do.
Shame on Americans for tolerating this despotism.
The FCC chairman announced the new regulations, to be voted on by the FCC commission on February 28th. He did not actually release those regulations to the public so we could, like, know what they were and discuss them.
The most transparent presidency ever.
I’m sure it is just another bureaucratic power grab with penalties for transgression. A good way to ensure compliance to the political authority of the day.
Hear that? – There it is again _ ya hear that distant sound of free innovating activity? That’s Free I-net 2.0 being constructed – Free use technology is always a jump ahead of the tyrant and his goon squad – taxation and regulation have spawned more innovation that imagined – think “Brazil”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dht_3NziwSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXUIcb80N0
See my comment above. I understand your argument, but the fact that a major new bureaucratic power grab is being undertaken while withholding information about it from the public, who will be most affected, doesn’t bode well. Why discuss with the public when you can just tell them what to do.
Goeorge Orwell,1984, and Big Brother Obama and the United Nations
Liberal politicians against liberty http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.ro/2015/01/libertarians-against-liberty.html
If Obama’s for it I’m against it.
“The FCC’s Big Internet Power Grab Comes Directly From the White House” – surprise, surprise, surprise. People are really slow learners. So meek, and trusting. There is probably very little of importance in the present US Administration which the God-Emperor does not control. It’s so easy for him – that’s why his photos always show him laughing. He is laughing at his subjects, for letting him seize despotic power.
No worries, if you like your internet you can keep your internet…
The real problem is our feckless GOP representatives. They may cry about it now, but when they have a real opportunity to roll this back, they’ll punt. Both sides in the House and Senate are in thrall to the special interests (i.e. Big Internet, in this case), and can also see that there will be additional revenues generated for the government through various new tax structures.
Our representatives will get ever bigger campaign donations, free travel on private jets, and huge honoraria for speaking engagements. The rest of us are just screwed again, as usual.
Thanks number 2. Looks like the checkers missed the error in the first story.
“… vibrant broadband marketplace…”
Stopped reading at this point as it makes clear this guy is a pathetic shill. Broadband market is a monopoly/duopoly and should be regulated as such. Wheeler is giving them a break by not requiring unbundling the last mile as is required here in Canada.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Obamas polls going into the Marianas Trench now