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FCC Vote Marks Effort To Take Greater Control of the Web
GovTechGuy writes "The FCC voted today to open an inquiry into how the broadband industry is regulated, the first step in a controversial attempt to assert greater regulatory control over Internet service providers. In a 3-2 vote the Democratic members of the Commission voted to move forward with the FCC's proposal to reclassify broadband as a telecom service, increasing the regulation it is subject to. The move also has large implications for net neutrality, which FCC Commissioner Julius Genachowski has made a focus under his watch."
Just because you are too slow or lazy to find out what they are for doesn't mean everyone else is.
Your arrogance from ignorance is disgusting. Shame on you.
You get a lot of protections from the regulations. Not that you can stay focused on anything long enough to find out what they are. I mean actual facts might make it harder to have incorrect knee jerk reactions.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
A few months ago Congress did pass a law giving the sitting president power to "kill switch" the internet. It's supposed to be used in the event of a security attack
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
From TFA:
But the FCC's two Republican voices expressed strong opposition. Commissioner Meredith Baker raised concerns about the financial implications and future broadband deployment, charging that the vote would "subject the Internet and consumers to years of litigation and uncertainty."
"There are significant consequences to even initiating this proceeding," she said.
You are not even allowed to INQUIRE into whether or not the internet is broken. The free market exists in some sort of weird quantum universe that gets worse just by observing it! (Just like Comcast online speeds get worse just as soon as you try to open a web page!)
Commissioner Robert McDowell, the agency's other Republican, said a net 1.5 million jobs could be put at risk as a consequence of agency action.
The process "has already caused harm in the marketplace," he said.
Oh, that poor, poor marketplace. Being caused such harm by just asking if it's causing any harm. Has anyone ever posted a link to exactly where these 1.5 million jobs are coming from?
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
We've been over this, but for you and the rest of the slow-learners...
Free market principles have are antithetical to slavery, where you get (virtually) free labor out of a human. Free markets do quite well at pricing labor. Forced labor is outside of that realm.
You'd think folks like you could come up with an actual example, but I suppose you're just saying this for the echo chamber (which put you up to +5).
Do you have ESP?
Why is this flamebait? he was answering a question that was asked above him, and I happen to agree with quite a few of those.
/.ers naturally creates a left wing bias. Supposedly said by Churchill: "If you're not a liberal when you're 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative when you're 40, you have no brain."
Because, as is the norm recently on slashdot, every post that is remotely against big government is quickly modded down into oblivion. Why that is I don't know, probably the average age of
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.