GOP Senators Move To Block FCC On Net Neutrality

suraj.sun writes "Seven Republican senators have announced a plan to curb the Obama administration's push to impose controversial Net neutrality regulations on the Internet." "The FCC's rush to take over the Internet is just the latest example of the need for fundamental reform to protect consumers," says Sen. Jim DeMint, who I'm sure truly only has the consumer's needs at heart — since his campaign contributions list AT&T in his top five donating organizations.

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Re:WTF

[AndersOSU]

The FCC is influenced by politics, then, right?

The FCC is a member of the executive branch, so will be influenced by whatever president is in office, right? Do you really want the precedent to be that the internet is to be ruled by a revolving door of figureheads?

You're familiar with the concept of (small d) democracy, yes?

Re:You are disingenous

[commodore64_love]

>>>the childish position that all government is bad.

How about the historical position? From 1910 to the present various governments around the world have killed almost 1/2 billion of their *own* citizens. And I'm not talking about just Fascist Germany, but also so-called Democratic countries like Turkey. I think that gives me a pretty damn good, and logical reason not to trust governments.

Re:It's not perfect so it's useless.

[nschubach]

Yeah, I hate when local governments try to tell me that carrying a gun is not a perfect solution to self defense, so they get rid of my ability to do so.