Doing for the internet what he did for coal:
AT&T will pause investments to bring fiber connections to 100 cities until U.S. regulators iron out rules to regulate how Internet service providers manage their Web traffic, the company’s chief executive told investors at a conference on Wednesday.
Related. Or unrelated. Your mileage may vary.
The Obama/China deal marks a new era of Climate Grubering…
I have to accept the fact that Obomber is either a fool or malign.
He vows to weaken the US economy while China agrees to carry on as usual. Cold in our time!
This will be the template for an Iran nuke deal:
Obomber and Kerry will agree to remove their fleet and disarm their nukes while Iran will carry on until it has nukes, to reduce climate change emissions, of course. Peace in our time!
As a stock holder of AT&T I approve, shut the fiber optic line construction down.
My advice to Randall Stephenson, run a fiber optic line to the Dalai Lama’s domicile gratis in support of a free Tibet.
Yeah, O-dumber did such a great job with healthcare.
Jezzzzzzzzz. I need “another” drink.
Obama’s war on prosperity knows no bounds. Regulation is the holy water of his theocracy.
I’ve heard some commentators compare his internet tampering as Obamacare for the wireless and broadband.
In a continuing effort to keep up with the health insurance industry and the government takeover,
Sources are telling me that cheap uninsured health policies for subsidized (folks) are just before being raised 300-400 percent in some areas.
In other words, single mothers with 2 children paying 80 dollars per month for cheap health coverage are gonna get a bill for $240.00-$300.00 dollars per month.
There will be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth,
he and Hillary will be the most hated man/woman in America.
If he tries to take over the internet,
which I think is just a mealy mouth spewing a bunch of bullshit,
Congress will be forced to shut him up,
or risk losing their jobs next election.
Democrats, Republicans, Unaffiliated now know that everything he touches turns into Shiite….
China: “we will reach peak CO2 output in 2030”
translation: “We will continue to burn fossil fuels however we want. Please note, however, given current rates of construction of new fossil fuel burning plants, we expect that we will have built as much as we need for the long term by 2030, after which our CO2 output should begin to level off and decline.”
As usual they claim this is about an “open and free” (as in freedom) internet thanks to a series of government regulations. To me that’s the complete opposite of freedom but I’m just a racist sexist bigot homophobe facist so what do I know.
Along with gun control, one of the holy grails for DemocRats is to tax and regulate the internet. Once upon a time they had undisputed control of the airwaves and the written word. Then came the Internet, and hordes of people like Kate McMillan. And, in my humble way, me.
Even more damaging though is YouTube. There’s thousands of new entertainments out there made in kid’s basements that are thrashing Hollywood offerings on mainstream TV. Hollywood is overall losing money. Their ability to set the agenda is vanishing.
DemocRtats want their media monopoly back, because without it they are pooched. They will do anything to get it.
This Net Neutrality push is them doing anything. Barry has nothing to lose, he’s going to go for it. If he wins, Canada could become a new Superpower of the Internet.
A little off topic-
Fox News now has a video up showing the Chief Asshole of Obamacare implementation, calling the American people *STUPID* for not understanding what a shit sandwich he was getting ready to feed them.
Some of us knew, that he knew,
many American voters were stupid..
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/12/another-tape-surfaces-obamacare-architect-calling-american-people-stupid/
This is the Holy Grail for FCC bureaucrats, itching to apply all their regulations on the web and it’s content. Once they gain the power to start regulation, even as benign as what Obama is suggesting, then the Internet will be exposed to ever more partisan regulations, used as a tool much like the IRS to squash dissent. As far as I am concerned the Internet functions quite well without the greasy hands of government on it.
WEB 3.0 coming soon. One line for gov’t/military, the other (or what’s left over to charge) for common folk
Never heard Rush Limbaugh so angry and speechless as he was this morning after hearing Obama
signed with China to basically destroy whats left of the US economy while China goes on
business as usual.
The only words left for OBAMA is Impeachment and fullest punishment for TREASON.
The Treasonist (sp)Bast–d has two more years to raise havoc and he will unless the
elected members gra3r683ow some and stop him.
“Net Neutrality” will be anything but; from the repudiated president:
If you like your Net, you can keep your Net!
“Neutrality” according to whom?
‘The sentiment was echoed by big Internet service providers, Republican lawmakers, and anti-regulatory advocates, all of whom argued that classifying broadband Internet under Title II is a “nuclear option” that will destroy innovation and undercut private sector investment in Internet infrastructure.
“Reclassification under FCC Title II, which for the first time would apply 1930s-era utility regulation to the Internet, would be a radical reversal of course that would in and of itself threaten great harm to an open Internet, competition and innovation,” a Verizon spokesperson said in a statement.’
I’m sure it will be like some technocratic expert again, telling the American voter, well they had to be duped because the voter is too stupid to vote for ‘Net Neutrality’ so it needs to be foisted upon the public…
The ‘long game plan’ is to control the content the public is exposed to for political purposes.
And besides I thought the NSA already had the job of monitoring the Net, so isn’t that just more government duplication?
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Are Obamas crack phone users exempt?
Slogans for 2016:
“If you like your internet, you can keep your internet.”
“The cost of streaming will necessarily skyrocket.”
“Bin Laden is dead and the internet is dead.”
Internet at the speed of government.
Internet at the behest of government.
“…As far as I am concerned the Internet functions quite well without the greasy hands of government on it.”
The Internet only functions well without the greasy hands of government on it.
I had thought that most somewhat-informed people had at least a vague concept of what net neutrality means. But these comments have taught me that this is far from the case. The extent of the ignorance here is frightening.
Doubt it; they’ll just get a proportionately higher subsidy check. Anything less would violate the Democrt creed: reward your friends, punish your ” enemies”.
Power Factor – What makes you think the actual ” net neutrality ” will in any way resemble their sales talking points? Obamacare?
Sure, why don’t you “enlighten” me.
What be this “Net Neutrality”?
As for government regulation of the internet, bad idea.
Right now it works, with bureaucratic help it will soon be good enough for government.
Like the current media of TV and Newspapers.
Like healthcare and private property here in Canada?
Basically Obama Bin Lying is just bitter, he and his lying comrades have lost their control of the message.
propaganda is so hard, when anyone can google your lies and then mock these online.
Obviously the free market would do a better job with the internet than the government. The problem is that internet access isn’t a free market. It’s at best a cartel, and worst, in many places, a monopoly. So something has to be done. Is Obama’s plan the best one? Almost certainly not. But he has a plan, he’s working towards a solution. Hopefully after some compromises and alterations as it goes through the various bodies, it’ll become a slightly less shitty of a solution towards the problem of the internet inevitably devolving into a steaming pile of crap to the benefit of 2-3 small groups of hugely powerful people.
Gee, conspiracy anybody?
Talk about ignorant…..your mantra is just more nonsense from the “gimme, gimme” crowd.
If you really want to screw things up, get the gobernment involved, havne’t you “learnt” that yet?
Luboš Motl: “‘Net neutrality’ is just another communist plot.”
Pretty much. It’s certainly one of the dumbest ideas ever, so naturally the “gimme-gimme” crowd (as DanBc put it) are all over it like white on rice.
Oh goody. Are those meant to be words of comfort?
My bad, I mistyped. Instead of “Obama” I meant to type “Whoever tells Obama what to do.”
And I didn’t say it would be a good plan…
Net neutrality is only an issue because of the government-granted regional monopolies on cable and DSL Internet service. The solution to government interference in the free market isn’t more interference, it’s less. Net neutrality is like bringing in feral cats to solve your cane toad problem.
power….. everything Obama has said means the opposite is done. Obama lives in opposite land. he lies and if you don’t believe that lie he will tell you a different lie. he will lie, lie, and lie again. any thing he says about expanding the net or “net neutrality” means controlling the net. nothing more and nothing less. fools believe Obama.
Infamous american traitors BENEIDICT ARNOLD,HANOI JANE(Fonda)BILL CLINTON,AL GORE,JOHN KERRY,BARACK OBAMA
OK, since you asked: (CAPITALS used for emphasis, since so many seem to miss the point)
“Net neutrality” HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING INTERNET CONTENT. Many stupid people here and elsewhere seem to conflate the DELIVERY of internet services (i.e. your cable company or telco for 90% of Canadians) with the CONTENT of the internet. The DELIVERY of service is NOT A FREE MARKET in Canada or the US. Both telcos and cablecos have specific advantages, notably their ‘rights of way’, that allow them to deliver service in a cheaper, faster, and more reliable fashion than other methods. I may want to start a new ISP in Toronto, but no matter how much I spend on my internet backbone, routers, servers, etc., I still need to go to Bell or Rogers to go the ‘last mile’ to your home; I can’t start putting up poles along the curb, or laying cables under the street. THE LAST MILE ISN’T A FREE MARKET – IT’S GOVERNMENT REGULATED UTILITY. (yeah, wireless options are available, but they are expensive, difficult to scale, and have their own issues, so I’m disregarding them for the time being.)
The telcos, and especially cablecos, are planning to use this duopoly status to charge discriminatory tariffs, or access fees, to service providers who might compete with their products. Netflix is of course the prime example. Why do I need to pay Rogers an extra $40/month for the Movie Network when for $7/month, I can see most of them on Netflix? So Rogers (and TimeWarner and ComCast in the US) want to charge Netflix extra to carry their traffic (as opposed to say, traffic from Smalldeadanimals) to make up for the revenue they’re going to lose from their overpriced movie services.
Let me try to put this into an analogy some of you might understand. The 407 is a privately held toll road north of Toronto. Suppose the owners also buy a big chunk of Ford Motor company, and to encourage people to buy Fords, says it will charge more per km driven if your car is made by GM or Toyota. I trust no one would think that was fair – using a more or less monopoly position with state-granted privileges to force people to buy another product not related to the monopoly granted to you.
Net neutrality says the cable/telcos can’t do this. They can’t jack up the price for traffic for some content (or throttle its speed, which is effectively the same thing) based on CONTENT or the PROVIDER. Note that this DOES NOT prevent the cable/telcos from charging different rates based on SPEED or total USAGE of a connection. You want a 20 Mbit/s connection with 100 GB of data transfer each month? That’s $XX, for you, and for anyone else. 5 MBit/s and 20GB? Probably half the rate – and that’s fair, because the charge is related to the cost of providing the higher speed equipment and bandwith, regardless of whether you’re streaming CBC news or browsing eBay.
Net neutrality SAYS NOTHING about restricting the type of content or the types of services provided by ANYONE over the net. Net neutrality says nothing about allowing or disallowing CONTENT, whether it be adult oriented videos or the childish Daily KOS. Net neutrality says nothing about allowing or disallowing services, such as RoboCook, my new service that lets me control your remotely equipped stove and microwave to have dinner piping hot and ready when you get home. Net neutrality simply says “a bit is a bit is a bit” – you can charge for the speed of the bits, and you can charge for the number of bits someone uses, but you can’t charge based on the content or origination of the bits.
Everyone here, if they are true to their supposed small-c conservative roots, should be FOR net neutrality. It places the decisions on which services will live or die in consumer’s hands, and not in the hands of regulated duopolies whose concern is maximum extraction of money from us in return for their government granted privileges.
Capiche?