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Net Neutrality Repeal Made Official With Entry Into Federal Register
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More like he only cares about you if you're a member of one of his golf clubs.
The FCC regulators are appointed, not elected. If Congress wants to take up the matter, they are still able to do so.
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You literally told everyone you know nothing about Net Neutrality.
ISPs did not pay for the internet, the tax payers did. ISPs were given huge amounts of money by the government to build up the infrastructure which they failed to deliver on. (Had they delivered we'd of all had broadband by 2000).
Why should an ISP get to control what happens to the internet when they didn't create it or pay for the infrastructure?
As for "prevent business growth" the opposite is true. No net neutrality means that Comcast and others can squash startups by preventing their traffic from going through, this has already happened many times and was the reason the rules were put in place.
Except that the internet has done just fine for the last 20 years without the gov, so we don't need any of this crisis management that the government loves so much.
Before reclassification, AT&T tried that BS with limiting FaceTime on iPhones to not be available unless you subscribed to certain tiered plans because they felt Net Neutrality only applied to downloaded apps and they could block and/or charge more for iPhone users to access iOS apps that came preinstalled.
https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/18/3351626/att-facetime-block-fcc-complaint-net-neutrality
All because some government, probably local elected to limit your ISP choices. Easily resolvable with the same method you prefer, elect different local government officials. You already have the solution you want in this case. You need to ask why is it not working? And the honest answer is NOT more of the same. It does not work because the government does not do what people want except in the extreme cases. Otherwise the local government in your example would allow competition. There are no unaccountable business, unless they are made by government allowing a monopoly.
Net Neutrality is about moving closer to another government monopoly by unaccountable bureaucrats. This is much worse than unaccountable business because you cannot sue government and you cannot put government workers in jail for ignoring the law. With unaccountable businesses people have options, with government none.
How are you going to like it when Trump uses this power to enforce his politics? Not so much, I'll bet.
You can sue the government. Also... Government workers can go to jail.
Most of my family and friends are Republican voters.... or should I say were. And I never voted for Obama either. So many people are moving away from the Right that I’m proud of each person that realizes what a mess the GOP are. I wonder between this and those Florida teens what would happen IF ( I said if ) there’s a tidal wave of support for the dems. Would the GOP contest it? If so by how much ?? Would it be like the Obama era? Would they squat in their positions of power?
The internet grew just fine without this law. It will be fine.
Checked my paycheck, found more money. Sorry, I disagree.
Rubbish. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Wait until you do your 2018 taxes to decide that. Just because they are withholding less now does not mean your taxes went down. They may have, but you won't know until you file your 2018 taxes.
And to the people who think the internet did just fine without the government, DARPA might disagree.
I see both sides of the issue, but I worry about the government overreaching in things like this.
You literally don't know how to use the word literally.
Theoretically maybe, but I've not see it for anything related to the government filed by the people, except for maybe issues that fall under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which is mostly about accidents and injuries. Essentially the government has exempted itself from being sued for doing most actions and the immunity extends to most state and federal agencies.
Its called government immunity. That is why police departments can take your property without due process. All they have to do is think you were involved in a crime. No court, no trial, no judge, no recourse. Think about that. All the government did was pass law and bang, you lose. The government has grown too large, but more importantly too powerful, that nothing the government does anymore is worth the increased risk to individuals, unless of course one is a snowflake. Then nothing matters but ideology.
Unfortunately there is really no real difference between the parties. They both stand for themselves and not the people. Oh, they cry and whine on TV about how much they care, but look at the laws they pass or fail to pass and you get a completely different story.
BTW you have to look at the actual laws, the media and politicians lie when they summarize the laws they are voting on. Why? Because its easy and it works, most people don't take the time to check the actual laws being proposed.
Thank you for explaining it. I was fully aware that "Net Neutrality" was Orwellian newspeak, but the whole issue was so insanely confounded that I could not make heads or tails of it - albeit I hadn't really looked much into it.
I cant wait to vote red. Best decision I've ever made.
The best? You mean, better than deciding not to step out in front of oncoming traffic and the like?
Alrighty then.
