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Watch the FCC Vote On Net Neutrality Live At 10:30am Eastern

Posted by timothy on from the now-now-now dept.

New submitter giltwist (1313107) writes "Very shortly, the FCC will begin its vote on proceeding 14-28 regarding Chairman Wheeler's highly contentious Net Neutrality proceeding. Senator Al Franken called Net Neutrality the free speech issue of our time. The vote begins at 10:30am Eastern time today. Make sure to watch it live at the FCC's live stream." "A particularly full agenda" is right; it's a rambunctious crowd, too.

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  1. Irony? by NuAngel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ironically, without net neutrality, I imagine the FCC's website would be in the slow-lane and we wouldn't all be able to stream this at the same time. Just sayin'.

    1. Re:Irony? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      That's entirely secondary to keeping the public uninformed. It is not in their interests to accelerate any of the arguments to be presented into the public discourse.

  2. Interesting? by denmarkw00t · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So far it's not bad, but a lot of people advocating for congress to step in instead. Not sure how I feel about that vs unelected people making decisions - if only there were some way for the common people to decide what we should do...

    1. Re:Interesting? by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What is a shame is that Congress doesn't make decisions based on what is in the best interest of the general public.

      If it comes down to it, a single large company making another billion in profit or millions of people getting better and lower cost internet access, I vote for the millions of people.

      Shame Congress doesn't vote that way.

    2. Re:Interesting? by PvtVoid · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "if only there were some way for the common people to decide what we should do"

      That's called the free market.

      If it were left entirely to the free market, net neutrality would have been gone years ago. Careful what you wish for.

  3. Vibrant! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Comissioner Pai believes the Clinton administration and congress at the time's decision to allow the free market to allow internet growth through "unfettered and vibrant competition" was the correct one.

    Vibrant competition. His words, not mine.

    1. Re:Vibrant! by Bob9113 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      with both dissenters doing so because they believe it should be left to Congress to decide, and they both seem to be in favor of eliminating net neutrality.

      Don't kid yourself. The dissenting votes were theater, just like Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel saying they favored net neutrality. If Clyburn and Rosenworcel had voted against and the two R's had voted for, it would have broken the "along partisan lines" story that our one political party relies on. This is the only way the vote could go to achieve the three goals:

      1. Kill net neutrality.
      2. Maintaining the pretense that Obama and the dem's are fighting for net neutrality.
      3. Maintain the "bitter partisan divide" story that keeps the one party (the D's and R's) from having any competition.

      I wanted to believe in Rosenworcel and Clyburn. I posted here in support of them. But they are as full of shit as Obama. The Republicans are worse, because they don't even claim to support non-discriminatory communication networks, but they are all selling our future down the same river.

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  4. It's official - it passed by Anubis+IV · · Score: 5, Informative

    11:30am EST, it passed the vote, 3-2.

    1. Re:It's official - it passed by organgtool · · Score: 5, Funny

      On the plus side, the money this brings in will allow the ISPs to back off their threat to stop innovating!

  5. Re:Will there be a transcript linked somewhere? by mellon · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're better off not watching. I watched for about five minutes and wanted to punch somebody. The eloquence with which these spindocs are explaining why black is white is disgusting.

  6. Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope by symbolset · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now would be a great time for Google Fiber to announce their nationwide rollout. "If the FCC won't fight for a free and open Internet then we must."

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  7. Media fail by jfern · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The media said that "net neutrality" fast lanes passed. Morons. We need media neutrality, too.