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Senate Republicans Introduce Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation (thehill.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill Monday to nullify the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules. "Few areas of our economy have been as dynamic and innovative as the internet," Lee said in a statement. "But now this engine of growth is threatened by the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 Open Internet Order, which would put federal bureaucrats in charge of engineering the Internet's infrastructure." Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) co-sponsored Lee's bill. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai introduced his own plan last week to curb significant portions of the 2015 net neutrality rules that Lee's bill aims to abolish. Pai's more specific tack is focused on moving the regulatory jurisdiction of broadband providers back to the Federal Trade Commission, instead of the FCC, which currently regulates them.
This is excellent legislation. I know it is politically incorrect on slashdot to advocate for a free market and for capitalism instead of socialism and extremist left wing nuttyness, but network "neutrality" is neither focused on networking nor neutral about anything. It simply gives big government 100% control of what people can see and do online. The end result of this kind of over reach is massively biased media outlets like MSNBC and "experimenting on vulnerable kids" liberal corporations like Facebook. Instead of giving these big brother types control, we need to DEREGULATE to give control back to people so they and they alone can decide what media they want and how they want to consume it.
Net Neutrality is anything but. It is government designed networking. Last thing we need is more government interference.
It sounds good, but the real solution isn't government controlled rules and regulations, lawsuits and red tape. It is free and open markets.
The problem is, this is more government rules and regulations to fix the last generation of government rules and regulations that caused monopoly franchise agreements with single companies, creating a monopoly. The solution is to remove the impediments to free markets by removing the source of the problem, last mile. This is easily solved, by allowing municipalities to build out common infrastructure that can be used by anyone to any provider. That way, we let the market decided what people actually want, and provide a choice.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You can't get through to him. He has a Republican agenda. If the repugs were for net neutrality, he's tailor his posts accordingly.