"Oh Golly Gosh Oh Gee. I would never have thought it of our "great leader". I'm simply flabbergasted. What next??? Moderating our political statements and opinions? Naaaaaaaaaaaa"
Is it OK to quote myself? They have tried hard to keep EVERYTHING about the Net Neutrality Act from you. However, a couple of articles expose a small part of it. However, you will not hear about services like HBO streaming substantially raise the price. There are 202 pages of laws in the act that are being kept secret from you. But this is what was leaked:
BY PAUL BEDARD | 02/23/15 7:07 PM
Obama's regs will make Internet slow as in Europe, warn FCC, FEC commissioners
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama ... le/2560567“These Internet regulations will deter broadband deployment, depress network investment and slow broadband speeds. How do we know? Compare Europe, which has long had utility-style regulations, with the United States, which has embraced a light-touch regulatory model. Broadband speeds in the United States, both wired and wireless, are significantly faster than those in Europe. Broadband investment in the United States is several multiples that of Europe. And broadband’s reach is much wider in the United States, despite its much lower population density,” the two wrote.
They also joined to warn about the Democrat-chaired Federal Election Commission eyeing regulation of political speech on the Internet.
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Noting recent votes on the issue that ended in a political deadlock, the two wrote, “these close votes and the risk of idiosyncratic case-by-case enforcement inevitably discourage citizens and groups from speaking freely online about politics.”
Bottom line, they warned: “Internet freedom works. It is difficult to imagine where we would be today had the government micromanaged the Internet for the past two decades as it does Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service. Neither of us wants to find out where the Internet will be two decades from now if the federal government tightens its regulatory grip. We don’t need to shift control of the Internet to bureaucracies in Washington. Let’s leave the power where it belongs — with the American people. When it comes to Americans’ ability to access online content or offer political speech online, there isn’t anything broken for the government to “fix.” To paraphrase President Ronald Reagan, Internet regulation isn’t the solution to a problem. Internet regulation is the problem.”
“Neither of us wants to find out where the Internet will be two decades from now if the federal government tightens its regulatory grip.”
More?? Only the wealthy will be able to pay for the highest Internet speeds. Hasn't the government raised the cost of everything it touches? Be ready to get your second job to pay for high speed access. (My opinion not theirs)
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FCC Commissioner: Net Neutrality Is A Threat To Free Speech
12:39 PM 02/23/2015
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/23/fccfe ... ch-online/ An FCC commissioner strongly opposed to the agency’s new net neutrality proposal partnered with an FEC commissioner Monday to warn that new Internet regulations could influence political free speech online.
In Monday op-ed published in Politico Magazine, Commissioners Ajit Pai and Lee Goodman of the FCC and FEC joined forces to criticize FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s recent proposal to regulate Internet service providers as public utilities, which, among other things, mandate companies comply with government standards for speed and price.
Pai, who partnered with an FTC commissioner last week to warn that the plan limits the FTC’s ability to protect Internet consumers, said the new regulations could push the delicate regulatory balance the FEC has maintained over political free speech online. (RELATED: FCC/FTC Commissioners: ‘The Internet Isn’t Broken, And We Don’t Need The President’s Plan To ‘Fix’ It)
“While the FCC is inserting government bureaucracy into all aspects of Internet access, the FEC is debating whether to regulate Internet content, specifically political speech posted for free online,” the commissioners wrote.
After attempting to regulate political speech spending online in the 90s, the FEC voted unanimously in 2006 to exempt political content posted online for free from federal regulation.
Then-FEC Chairman Michael E. Toner said the rules “totally exempt individuals who engage in political activity on the Internet from the restrictions of the campaign finance laws. The exemption for individual Internet activity in the final rules is categorical and unqualified,” The Washington Post reported, adding that the rules “granted media exemptions to bloggers and other activists using the Web to allow them to praise and criticize politicians, just as newspapers can, without fear of federal interference.”
However, what was unanimous consent almost a decade ago has since split the commission along partisan lines.
Last October Democrats on the commission proposed new regulations for Internet-based campaigning after a 3-3 vote left the agency divided over whether an anti-Obama campaign violated FEC rules when it posted two videos on YouTube, without reporting its finances or adding a disclosure to the ads.
The commission split along the same lines over the same rule in a similar case two months later, and held a hearing earlier this month dealing with Internet regulation, which drew 32,000 public comments — the majority calling for greater standards in disclosing the sources behind political speech spending.
“Even though it would require four votes for the FEC to regulate the Internet, these close votes and the risk of idiosyncratic case-by-case enforcement inevitably discourage citizens and groups from speaking freely online about politics,” the commissioners wrote.
“Three former FEC commissioners and five nonprofit groups testified that the Internet should not be regulated. Even ‘a little’ regulation, they maintained, would suppress significant amounts of political speech — for no compelling reason.”
The FCC’s new Internet regulations, which are widely expected to be implemented via vote Thursday by the Democratically dominated commission, could be the first step toward more broad cross-agency regulation of the Internet — something the Internet doesn’t need, according to the commissioners.
“The bottom line is that Internet freedom works,” the commissioners wrote. “It is difficult to imagine where we would be today had the government micromanaged the Internet for the past two decades as it does Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service.”
As the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Election Commission toy with regulating aspects of the Internet, critics on those agencies are warning that speed and freedom of speech are in jeopardy.
In a joint column, Federal Communications Commission member Ajit Pai and Federal Election Commission member Lee Goodman, leveled the boom on the Obama-favored regulations, essentially charging that it will muck up the freedom the nation has come to expect from the Internet.
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In one key passage of the column published in Politico, the duo wrote Monday that heavy-handed FCC regulations like those imposed in Europe will significantly slow down Internet speech
