New White House Petition For Net Neutrality

Bob9113 (14996) writes "On the heels of yesterday's FCC bombshell, there is a new petition on the White House petition site titled, 'Maintain true net neutrality to protect the freedom of information in the United States.' The body reads: 'True net neutrality means the free exchange of information between people and organizations. Information is key to a society's well being. One of the most effective tactics of an invading military is to inhibit the flow of information in a population; this includes which information is shared and by who. Today we see this war being waged on American citizens. Recently the FCC has moved to redefine "net neutrality" to mean that corporations and organizations can pay to have their information heard, or worse, the message of their competitors silenced. We as a nation must settle for nothing less than complete neutrality in our communication channels. This is not a request, but a demand by the citizens of this nation. No bandwidth modifications of information based on content or its source.'"

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Re:Bush

[Anonymous Coward]

"Republicans are obstructing every step of the way."

Good fucking grief. Obama is a radical socialist Democrat and has been in office for near six years now. The Democrats have run congress as well for years, including super majorities in the first few years of Obama's term. Democrats are entrenched in the beauracracy, at all levels, they run the IRS, the EPA, the state department, the DOE, all the important TLA's are staffed by Democrats as far as the eye can see.

Oh and those Repiublicans, yes they do win here and there. And whenever they do they fold and lie down and capitulate like good little soldiers they are. They talk a good talk to we the people when it's election time, but these guys are just happy as clams when it comes to compromise and making deals and working with the other side of the aisle. They are pros you know and they know which side of the gravy train they are supposed to be on.

Executive check. Congress check. John (It's a tax) Roberts, check. Beauracracy, check. What else? Oh yes, the media. The media are for all intensive purposes just an arm of the Democrat party, and yes that includes FNC. Ever watch Letterman? Media, in pocket, check. Teachers unions, SEIU, AFL, Teamsters, you name it, they run it. Democrats that is. Corporations! You all love to hate your crony capitalist corps now don't you? You think they don't love them some statism when they can get it? Or buy it I should say.

But yea, the real problem here, the reason Obamacare isn't working, the reason unemployment is so high, the reason food prices and gas prices and everything else is so high is, uh huh, Republicans.

You sheep just crack me up.

Re:Bush

[bobbied]

Basically true when he's at the mercy of the republicans to adopt the stuff that needs to be changed in order to fulfill the job he was elected to do . Sucks but it's fundamentally true. Republicans are obstructing every step of the way. The institutions are totally fucked when a President can't do the job he's elected for.

You seem to forget that his party controlled congress in total for almost TWO full years. He had that long to do anything he wanted.

The situation changed when Mass elected Brown to replace Ted K after he died. Then they didn't have a super majority in the senate anymore, but still had a majority. It wasn't until the midterms that the Republicans took the house away and could effectively object to ANYTHING. Democrats retain control of the Senate to this day. So, it's not just the Republicans fault. Obama had two full years to do literally anything he and his party wanted, TWO YEARS! What did he accomplish? Obamacare and not a whole lot else.

But since then, Republicans have run on a platform that opposed Obama's policies, and have generally won elections in the process. Republicans have tried it both ways. They have tried to work with him but Obama has steadfastly refused to discuss anything or work on compromise and he torched them. So republicans are really left with little other choice but to oppose him, and get torched too. But this is Obama's choice in most part, given his scorched earth political tactics and the obstructionist Senate that refuses to take up much of what the house sends them for debate. But that's how politics works and how the system is designed.

I get that you want to blame the other side and accuse them of being obstructionists. They generally have been, not because that's how they wanted it, but because it didn't matter if they just agreed to anything nor said no, they where going to get torched. But don't fool yourself, Obama and his supporters choosing to use the flamethrower and firebombs leaves little other choice. If you are going to burn anyway, why not keep your base happy in the process? If your base is happy with you, it's easier to raise money and you are less likely to be bloodied in the primaries, so why not?

The real question is how will this play on election day in 2014 and how all this translates into 2016. I getting the feeling the democrats are going to loose the Senate and loose more seats in the house in 2014. If that happens, you can count on a whole lot more obstruction, unless Obama decides to try and work with the republicans on stuff. (Given his history, I doubt he would work with anybody though) The only difference that will be obvious is that you will see a whole lot more videos of Obama vetoing bills on the nightly news. Up until now, he's been spared that optic by the Senate which simply refuses to take up anything Obama doesn't agree to sign in advance. So to this republican, I don't agree that it is our side being unreasonable given the circumstances. Your mileage may vary as your party affiliation apparently does. Just don't try to tell yourself your side has been pure as the wind driven snow in all this. You all got dirt on your hands too.