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Obama To Veto Anti-Net-Neutrality Legislation
An anonymous reader writes "In a statement of policy on Tuesday, the White House announced that President Obama will veto upcoming legislation that would undermine the FCC's net neutrality rules. According to the statement (PDF), the rules 'reflected a constructive effort to build a consensus around what safeguards and protections were reasonable and necessary to ensure that the Internet continues to attract investment and to spur innovation.' The statement continued, 'It would be ill-advised to threaten the very foundations of innovation in the Internet economy and the democratic spirit that has made the Internet a force for social progress around the world.'"
This is why it is so good to have a President who is also a good lawyer, instead of that barely-literate, inbred President Dunsel we had before him.
So far FCC and net neutrality has failed to hold up in court so this is symbolic. The FCC doesn't not have jurisdiction over the Internet and as such the law is baseless. Hot air just like everything else he done his whole life.
I was very impressed by the President acting in violation of the Constitution (even according to him from a few years back). However, that was not a positive impression.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison