NLXSK1
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FCC Chairman Proposes Utility-Like Regulation for Broadband
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler unveiled a proposal that would subject mobile and fixed broadband providers to utility-like regulations on how they treat traffic over their networks.
The proposed rules would change broadband Internet access from a lightly regulated information service to a more strictly overseen telecommunications service. The FCC would use that new authority to ban broadband providers from blocking, slowing down or speeding up specific websites in exchange for payment. The proposal is aimed at satisfying proponents of net neutrality.
What they dont tell you is that all the monitoring and reporting companies are now going to have to do to prove they are being *fair* will slow down the internet. So, to make sure it is fair for everyone the government is going to slow it down for everyone. In addition, shortly after or at the time the regulations are in place there will be a new bureacracy, a new tax, new expense, new compliance regulations, etc...
This is a huge pile of steaming bullshit. Internet providers should be able to do what they want with their infrastructure. There is no monopoly on the internet and as such the government should leave it the hell alone. Otherwise we are going to have Obamanet.... Free to those who want to get on and complain that their welfare check isnt big enough.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler unveiled a proposal that would subject mobile and fixed broadband providers to utility-like regulations on how they treat traffic over their networks.
The proposed rules would change broadband Internet access from a lightly regulated information service to a more strictly overseen telecommunications service. The FCC would use that new authority to ban broadband providers from blocking, slowing down or speeding up specific websites in exchange for payment. The proposal is aimed at satisfying proponents of net neutrality.
What they dont tell you is that all the monitoring and reporting companies are now going to have to do to prove they are being *fair* will slow down the internet. So, to make sure it is fair for everyone the government is going to slow it down for everyone. In addition, shortly after or at the time the regulations are in place there will be a new bureacracy, a new tax, new expense, new compliance regulations, etc...
This is a huge pile of steaming bullshit. Internet providers should be able to do what they want with their infrastructure. There is no monopoly on the internet and as such the government should leave it the hell alone. Otherwise we are going to have Obamanet.... Free to those who want to get on and complain that their welfare check isnt big enough.
