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Thursday, February 09, 2017
Senators Say Loss Of Net Neutrality Will “Unleash A Political Firestorm”
There’s nothing subtle about the writing on the wall: New FCC chair Ajit Pai openly despises and wants to do away with the 2015 Open Internet Order, which reclassified broadband as a utility-like service, and cemented the “net neutrality” rules. However, some lawmakers and consumer advocates have made it known that they aren’t ready to give up these recently earned protections.
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Here it comes shutting down 1st admendment.
They want to control information on the internet to further manipulate the public.
There is nothing about the internet that makes it a public utility. It's made up of private ISP's and needs to stay that way. We will do our own shopping for bandwidth, thank you.
Thank obummer for this.
Does anyone here even understand this issue?
Net neutrality makes sure that internet providers, you know those guys that every year land on the worst companies in America list, don't control YOUR access to content.
Effectively, stifling any sort of competition they may have online.
Opponents of net neutrality would have you believe it stifles innovation, yet cannot provide one single bit of evidence to show otherwise.
Lets make it simple. Say Comcast decides to make it's own local news based blogs/sites. They can make so that if you search for local news you find what Comcast wants you to see. If THIS site wants to compete, it would have to pay to Comcast a higher fee to get "found" on the internet.
Comcast no longer has to "compete" in a free landscape. Competition is what makes for innovation, good ideas get financial backing...
This is about control, power, and money. None of which is good for the end users.
Steve..9:19
These ISPs are using the public right of ways to run their lines and public airways to broadcast from cell towers. The hell it's not a public utility!
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