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Obama Is Threatening To Veto the GOP's Latest Assault On Net Neutrality (vice.com)
An anonymous reader cites a Motherboard article: President Obama has long been a vocal supporter of net neutrality. In a "
Statement of Administration Policy" (PDF) released Tuesday, Obama signaled that he intends to veto Republican-backed legislation that open internet advocates say could eviscerate federal net neutrality protections. Earlier this year, a GOP-controlled House subcommittee approved the "No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act," (H.R. 2666) which net neutrality supporters say could severely undercut the Federal Communications Commission's ability to police the nation's largest cable and phone companies. The House bill would "undermine key provisions in the Federal Communications Commission's open internet order and harm the commission's ability to protect consumers while facilitating innovation and economic growth," said the Obama administration's statement. "If the President were presented with H.R. 2666, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill."Please do, Obama.
Net Neutrality is about pedantic nerds who want unlimited supply of limited bandwidth, while limiting private companies the right to manage their own infrastructure.
It has NOTHING to do with bits or bandwidth.
I have proposed in the pas a full and complete solution that negates the need for federal regulations on internet. It is relatively simple and doesn't really change anyone's business model. It isn't glamorous "Net Neutrality" legislation, it is a simple change in how the economics function.
Net Neutrality is a problem of the "last mile", the inability of the customer (you, me us) to SHOP for the service / price / quality of the products and services we wish to purchase. I know I have ONE option for High Speed data. That is government granted franchise agreement to the Cable Company.Government rules and regulations caused this mess, and everyone's idea of how to fix it is MORE government solutions.
Fix the last mile, make it COMMON for all (like roads) and bring all those connections back to a COLO where Businesses compete for the last mile customer. Where I, the customer, can choose between Comcast, Netflix Only Streaming, Google, and AT&T. It would free the customer, create new and innovative products and services, and create the competition that will negate the need for LEGISLATIVE rules and regulations, the same that caused this mess in the first place.
The problem is, we are so hell bent on doing things the way we always have done them (last mile franchise agreements) and applying legislative fixes, that we no longer are being creative on our solutions that would solve the problem in a very simplistic way.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Like you I read the bill and wonder why on earth the President would threaten to veto a bill which ensures that the Government can not mandate the rate people pay for service.
Let me shorten this for you
The President wants to mandate what people pay for a service.
While not being explicit about his socialistic tendencies, he keeps making implicit ones, enough to leave a paper trail. Of course the Bernouts will complain he isn't socialistic enough.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.