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Net Neutrality Will Be Repealed Monday Unless Congress Takes Action (arstechnica.com)
With net neutrality rules scheduled to be repealed on Monday, Senate Democrats are calling on House Speaker Paul Ryan to schedule a vote that could preserve the broadband regulations. From a report: The US Senate voted on May 16 to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules, but a House vote -- and President Trump's signature -- is still needed. Today, the entire Senate Democratic Caucus wrote a letter to Ryan urging him to allow a vote on the House floor. "The rules that this resolution would restore were enacted by the FCC in 2015 to prevent broadband providers from blocking, slowing down, prioritizing, or otherwise unfairly discriminating against Internet traffic that flows across their networks," the letter said. "Without these protections, broadband providers can decide what content gets through to consumers at what speeds and could use this power to discriminate against their competitors or other content." The letter was spearheaded by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).
Everyone understands the explosive growth of the internet until the previous administration, out of the blue, unilaterally, and WITHOUT THE POPULOUS VOTING, said "Let's change it."
Doesn't that strike anyone as odd?
A single political party, of either side, wants to radically change something as successful as the Internet immediately and unilaterally and that strikes no one as being odd?
Net neutrality is as neutral as the affordable care act is affordable.
Net neutrality is a bad idea. The Internet is doing damn fine as it is. It became ubiquitous without net neutrality. Keep the government out as much as possible.
When any political party seeks to change something fundamentally as net neutrality would change the Internet, the people need to ask "Why and why now?"
Sure, the bad analogies sound good, but bad analogies always do.
I don't know about you, but my blue state is a hellhole of government inefficiency, high taxes and population decline. If your blue state is succeeding, it is in spite of that fact, not because of it, and it's only a matter of time before you tards will move to and destroy another red state.