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Democrats Pan Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal
GovTechGuy writes "Four House Democrats wrote to the Federal Communications Commission, urging them to write strict net neutrality rules and reject the framework put forward by Google and Verizon. The lawmakers, including Rep. Anna Eshoo, who represents the district containing Google HQ, said the Google-Verizon proposal increases the pressure on the FCC to come up with actual net neutrality rules, and characterize the deal as harmful to consumers and beneficial for the corporations. In particular, the letter took issue with two pieces of the Verizon-Google proposal: exemptions for managed services and wireless services from strict net-neutrality rules."
Google and Verizon really stepped in it. Their new pact doesn't have enough opportunity for government power brokers to choose winners and losers in exchange for campaign contributions. How dare these big companies decide to carve up the free Internet without giving the local warlords their due?
Expect a grand jury investigation of Google WIFI spying to begin sometime in the next 2 months. It's going to take a lot of campaign contributions and jobs for family members to call off those dogs.
Somebody in Washington is actually STOPPING the maniacally evil corporations for once? I must be missing something. Either that or I'm going to fall over dead from a shock induced heart attack in 3, 2, 1.......
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>>>So if there is a video service on your cell phone, should the data transfer for that video be network neutral? G/V are saying no, and the Dems are saying yes.
Google/Verizon is correct. There is no need for the government where a monopoly does not exist. The wired internet, which is mostly a Cable/Telephone duopoly needs regulating, but the wireless net does not. Most people have over ten providers to choose from. If one of those blocks access to whatever video you're trying to watch, you can change to another provider that does not.
No monopoly == no need to regulate/impose net neutrality. Of course it's worth mentioning that if the government (a monopoly) blocks the video, then you're out of luck.
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I wish they took the RISC approach. If the law has 15 parts, then pass 15 different laws.
Then the Republicans would have to filibuster fifteen times as many bills.
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Ever since the political red shift of 1980, our country has been falling apart. Our infrastructure is decaying, our schools are degenerating, our health care is failing, and the gap between rich and poor is widening. And yet here you are moaning about "big government legislation" to protect the one shining beacon of the past 30 years: the internet. What a fool you are.