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House Panel Wants Google, Facebook, AT&T CEOs To Testify On Internet Rules (reuters.com)

The chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday asked the chief executives of Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon.com, AT&T, Verizon Communications and other companies to testify at a Sept. 7 hearing on the future of net neutrality rules. From a report: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is considering tossing out 2015 Obama administration net neutrality rules that reclassified internet service like a public utility. The rules bar providers from blocking, slowing or offering paid prioritization of websites. Many internet providers want Congress to step in and write permanent rules. Other chief executives asked to testify include the heads of Comcast, Netflix and Charter. Some companies including Facebook said they were reviewing the letter but none immediately said if they will testify.

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  1. Jihad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Is a duty of all Muslims. It is written in the Qur'an.

    Praise be to Allah.

    1. Re:Jihad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      This is why they should all be rounded up and deported. Let them go worship their pedo prophet in their own countries.

    2. Re:Jihad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      This is what happens when you force people to not eat bacon.

      Try bacon, it will change your life, it is glorious.

    3. Re:Jihad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Your age old enemy relative, jews, are behind it. Listen to Barbara Spectre so realize you're being played https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/

    4. Re:Jihad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Bacon is haram for all Muslims. It is written in the Qur'an.

      Praise be to Allah.

  2. Notice how everyone is invited... by wizkid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Accept the users of the internet. Our government for the people!

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    1. Re:Notice how everyone is invited... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And if I choose not to accept them?

    2. Re:Notice how everyone is invited... by gnick · · Score: 1

      [Except] the users of the internet. Our government for the people!

      We need to institute a system where we, the people, elect individuals to represent us. We could call them Representatives.

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    3. Re:Notice how everyone is invited... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah why the CEOs and not the engineers who actually know how the internet works ...

    4. Re:Notice how everyone is invited... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yah, we'z smarts enuf to guvern ours selves!

    5. Re:Notice how everyone is invited... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      [Except] the users of the internet. Our government for the people!

      We need to institute a system where we, the people, elect individuals [chosen by the rich and powerful] to represent [corporate interests]. We could call them Representatives [so the working man doesn't stop working and start shooting].

      FTFY

    6. Re:Notice how everyone is invited... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Join the pledge to throttle bandwidth for all non-users of the internet!

    7. Re:Notice how everyone is invited... by John.Banister · · Score: 1

      They needed someone who would speak sentences that legislators could actually comprehend. Plus, they feel more important while talking to the CEOs who they consider to be the most important people in the companies. Can you imagine them asking the companies to "send someone who is knowledgeable about your position on this topic and competent to tell us about it." The testimony would move from CNN to C-Span, greatly reducing the number of voters watching the Representatives' attempts to sound like they're providing benefit. Plus, "knowledgeable person who is good at communicating the company position" is a job description for lobbyist. And, regardless of the truth of the words, listening to lobbyist testimony in an official hearing doesn't sound to the idiot public like Representatives doing their job. It sounds like a future exposé waiting to happen.

    8. Re:Notice how everyone is invited... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Accept the users of the internet. Our government for the people!

      There is nothing stopping you from writing your elected Representatives and Senators in Washington, DC... assuming you are even a citizen of the USA.

      Letters to US lawmakers from persons other than citizens of the USA may or may not be considered and would/should hold much much less standing compared to complaints/feedback from American citizens to their own elected officials.

    9. Re:Notice how everyone is invited... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Hmm... judging by the dupes you've been voting into office lately ... nope, you're not.

      Some people fear a world government, but when I see what we got instead, I can only say it cannot happen soon enough...

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  3. This is cute and all by rsilvergun · · Score: 2

    but with the Republicans in control of all branches of government this is a dead end. They should spend their time defending what's left of our tattered healthcare system. It'd be one thing if the Dems presented some kind of unified opposition and/or a few of the other side were willing to jump rank. But right now the only way Net Neutrality is coming back is if a law passes and unless the Dems win the House _and_ Senate (almost impossible with Gerrymandering no matter what the polls say and that's before the effects of voter suppression are felt) then we're done.

    Face it, America isn't a Democracy. We never have been. Hell, there's talk on the Right of eliminating our right to vote for Senators. They're not even pretending anymore.

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    1. Re: This is cute and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you kidding? The repubs are incapable of anything. They've. Been in total power for 7 months and not accomplished a damn thing, can't do taxes, healthcare or anything else they committed to.

    2. Re: This is cute and all by denis-The-menace · · Score: 1

      I think you meant REMOVE healthcare .

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    3. Re:This is cute and all by TFlan91 · · Score: 1

      "Hell, there's talk on the Right of eliminating our right to vote for Senators. They're not even pretending anymore."

      Source? I mean, I know they are pretty crazy, but cmon... They revere the Constitution like their bibles...

    4. Re:This is cute and all by l0n3s0m3phr34k · · Score: 1

      To better protect our citizens and our member States, the President has superseded and suspended the Federal Senate for the duration of this emergency. We are sure you shall all do everything in your power to assist us during this time of crisis.

    5. Re:This is cute and all by rsilvergun · · Score: 1

      Here you go. ALEC is a pretty big deal. The fact they'd even talk about it openly shows how far we've come.

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    6. Re:This is cute and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They revere the parts of the Constitution that support their agenda (2nd Amendment) while at the same time being perfectly willing to gut the 1st, 4th, and 14th.

      Of course, as you say - "They revere the Constitution like their bibles..." in that they certainly hate fags, but that "turn your other cheek" shit is for the birds.

    7. Re:This is cute and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The constitution was "reversed", as you say, to make senators elected rather than appointed by state governments in the early 1900's, so its not something that is really even close to unprecedented. Senators were meant to represent the interests of state governments in Washington, and not general citizens.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

    8. Re:This is cute and all by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      Reality is the end of net neutrality would hugely negatively impact the majority of businesses. Any company that wants to deal directly with consumers is under threat, any company. All can have their traffic crippled to favour competitors, especially those competitors with investments from the telecom executive team. Their traffic can be strangled right off, made to be intermittent, be interrupted by commercials for competing product and that is regular product not content. Anyone distributing high volume content can be put out of business. Make your own music and wish to sell it, nope not without the approval of the ISP publishing arm, either they publish your content for a cut or you get strangle.

      The end of net neutrality favours something like 5 companies hugely and disadvantages say few hundreds thousands companies enormously. Those companies are already seeing the customer data being syphoned off by US telecoms, now those telecoms will be able to listen in and cut off traffic if the ISP taxes have not be paid. It is mind bogglingly corrupt to listen to a handful of companies whilst hundreds of thousands of companies are going to be screwed over, their customer data being pried into and sold to competitors and that is when traffic is allowed to flow through. No net neutrality and not only go you be extorted to pay for any normal speed but you can pay to take out somebody else's speed, buy up the bandwidth on the line that connects them to strangle them out of business and it can happen real fast, a month or two is enough to cripple many businesses.

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    9. Re:This is cute and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There are still consumer protection laws that can come into play here.

      Also, IF a company were to do this, I can't think of a better way to kick off a mass movement to end ISP monopolies.

      The rules about net neutrality are not net neutrality. Eliminating them means going back to the dark ages of 2014 internet.

    10. Re:This is cute and all by q4Fry · · Score: 1

      The constitution was "reversed", as you say, to make senators elected rather than appointed by state governments in the early 1900's, so its not something that is really even close to unprecedented. Senators were meant to represent the interests of state governments in Washington, and not general citizens.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

      I recently learned about this as well. AC beat me to the post, though. I frankly think the Senate is kind of weird as a concept, but that's a topic for another time.

  4. Jewbook to the rescue of your internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    You can't even pick friends well. Proof is Jews believe this of others they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple):

    There are three types of people who call themselves Jews:

    1. True Torah [Sephardic] Jews: these are the descendants of Prophet Jacob-Israel (Jacobites or Israelites) (about 5%-10% of all Jews)

    2. Khazarian or Ashkenazi Jews: these are the descendants of a Turkic idol/phallic worshiping tribe who migrated to Russia in the 7th Century A.C. and whose nobility converted to Judaism in the 8th Century A.C. and now inhabit mostly Europe. (about 90%-95% of all Jews)

    3. Zionist Jews: these are the ones from the 2 above who are pretending to be Jews for political reasons but whoâ(TM)re are actually Illuminists-Luciferian-Masonic-Satanists as Harold Wallace Rosenthal admits in this interview.

    They are led by the neo-Pharisees (occult-priest-banklords). They want to establish a Zionist Luciferian state from the Nile to the Euphrates from where they plan to rule the Earth. The new Israeli Supreme Court funded by the Rothschilds Banklords is full of Masonic Symbols, just like the B.I.S. Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, which is the Mother of All Private Central Banks.

    The hexagram symbol on the Israeli flag is the ancient Star of Moloch, a Satanic-Baal deity to which people were sacrificed. There is no such thing as a Star of David which the modern Jews have been fooled into believing; however, the True Torah Jews are not fooled by the Zionists Illuminatis and you can visit their websites for more info .

    1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."

    2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."

    3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."

    4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."

    5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."

    6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."

    7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."

    8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."

    9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."

    10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."

    11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."

    12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."

  5. Impersonating me YET AGAIN? Please... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Interesting read. Especially the parts on Harold Wallace Rosenthal, Barbara Spectre & the Talmud excerpts. The rest everyone pretty much knows from history, financials or politicals.

    APK

    P.S.=> I've read that here before. I've asked it be proven wrong. I haven't seen it done yet. If that's the truth of talmudic jews, they're fools for writing that of non-jews (then they wonder why they're despised? Please - calling us fit to be slaves and animals as well as raping little girls?? What do they expect!)... apk

  6. Soros funded sockpuppets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What is the problem Soros funded SOCKPUPPETS?

    Don't want the truth getting out bout how you treat the goyim so bury my posts

    APK

    P.S. => The Jew will laugh at all you goyim all to the bank while they destroy your country.

    1. Re:Soros funded sockpuppets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      so Koch funded sockpuppets are fine?
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  7. Impersonating me STILL YET AGAIN? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Again, interesting reads above. Especially videos on Rosenthal & Spectre. I'm not crazy about the talmud stuff either. The rest anyone knows from history, politicals & financials.

    APK

    P.S.=> I've read all this here before on /. & asked for anyone to prove it all wrong. I haven't seen it yet and it's impossible imo to deny the Rosenthal & Spectre statements. What did jews expect writing or saying things like that? To be liked?? apk

  8. Not really by rsilvergun · · Score: 1

    you're thinking like a small biz owner. A big biz wants to kill Net Neutrality because it hurts their competition (who can't afford the fees).

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    1. Re:Not really by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      I think like a business owner that isn't an ISP. Because their train of thought would certainly be "Hey, cool idea. I'll make my own version and yours, well, sucks to be you because your traffic will now be very, very slow because I need to convince your customers to use my flavor".

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  9. And in other news... by Zemran · · Score: 1

    ... the ministry of agriculture has arranged a meeting of wolves to discuss lamb security in preparation for next spring.

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    1. Re:And in other news... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Where I am from, we shoot and pelt wolves for fun and profit.

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