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Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: President-elect Donald Trump has appointed two new advisers to his transition team that will oversee his FCC and telecommunications policy agenda. Both of the new advisers are staunch opponents of net neutrality regulations. Jeff Eisenach, one of the two newly appointed advisers, is an economist who has previously worked as a consultant for Verizon and its trade association. In September 2014, Eisenach testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee and said, "Net neutrality would not improve consumer welfare or protect the public interest." He has also worked for the conservative think-tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and in a blog post wrote, "Net neutrality is crony capitalism pure and simple." Mark Jamison, the other newly appointed adviser, also has a long history of battling against net neutrality oversight. Jamison formerly worked on Sprint's lobbying team and now leads the University of Florida's Public Utility Research Center. Both Eisenach and Jamison are considered leading adversaries of net neutrality who worked hard to prevent the rules from being passed last year. For the uninitiated, the rules passed last year prevent companies internet providers from discriminating against any online content or services. For example, without net neutrality rules, internet providers like Comcast and Verizon could charge internet subscribers more for using sites like Netflix. The FCC's net neutrality rules would protect consumers from paying exorbitant fees for internet use.
There shouldn't be any such thing as a 'safety net' but there shouldn't be any taxes at all taken from people for any such idea. People should save on their own, it needs to be a fully personal responsibility and the edge cases are responsibility of the family. If self reliance and family fail, then it's a charity case (if anybody wants to donate) but it must *never* be a case of government oppression for the sake of edge cases. Yes, vast majority of people will have bad luck and will get sick, etc., no, it must not be dealt with via government oppression. I was born in the USSR, I am fully aware of how socialism works and I reject it fully as well.
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Funny though here in Tampa it has been very quiet. Oh yeah that's right we have stand your ground laws here and shoot those kind of people if they turn into a rampaging mob.
Florida puts up with meth spills on the highway, but not political protests.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The protests will be better if you go to them. Seriously, we need people in the streets right now.
Great!
That's what we call a "target-rich environment"!
Remember those masses of Republicans out smashing businesses, beating people, and silencing dissenting opinions after President Obama won his 2nd term? How about all of those "Trump Supporters" paid to bird dog people at Clinton events? Well, I'll tell ya something. There is a reason that everyone in my family who is (or was until recently) a member of the Democratic Party didn't vote that way and many have given up on the Party as a whole. The Democratic party propping up Ellison and the media largely ignoring him is all you need to consider to realize that the DNC (as well as many in media) have lost their frigging minds.
You go ahead and yell in the streets. The non-existent fairy tales about policies of a person who has not spent a single day in political office doesn't frighten sane people. The rest of us will wait to actually see what happens over time and measure the actions the President takes. If he sucks, we'll do like we did this year and vote someone else into office.
We didn't elect a dictator, we elected a President. One of Three branches of US Government, and the President is not supposed to have dictatorial powers. Thanks to Obama, you may be confused though, because he has been the most vocal about his power of the pen.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
1) Trump is trying to get his children positions in the White House while they're operating the non-blind "blind trust" (and on and on and on)
Ha HA Ha Ha Chelsea.
Nothing Trump is doing is a candle to what the professional politicians have been doing for decades. Trumps supposed "conflicts of interest" are paper thin, and the sign of someone who has actually done something with his life besides being a professional politician... at least you can clearly see where Trump's conflicts might lie, he doesn't obfuscate things.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Point of view. We won't have a Supreme court that continues to erode the constitution.