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Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules? (nbcnews.com)
"Democrats are expected to use their upcoming control of the House to push for strong net neutrality rules," reports NBC News:
"The FCC's repeal sparked an unprecedented political backlash, and we've channeled that internet outrage into real political power," said Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future, a digital rights-focused non-profit organization. "As we head into 2019, net neutrality supporters in the House of Representatives will be in a much stronger position to engage in FCC oversight...." Gigi Sohn, a former lawyer at the FCC who is now a fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology, Law and Policy, said she expects Democrats to use their new power to push for the restoration of strong net neutrality rules -- and for the topic to be on the lips of presidential hopefuls. "I have no doubt that bills to restore the 2015 rules will be introduced in both the Senate and the House relatively early on," Sohn said....
Jessica Rosenworcel, an FCC commissioner who has been a vocal supporter of net neutrality, noted that it has become a national issue -- and one that has broad approval from Americans. She pointed to a University of Maryland study that found 83 percent of people surveyed were against the FCC's move to undo the rules around net neutrality... Ernesto Falcon, legislative counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation...said he is "extraordinarily confident" that proponents of net neutrality will win. "It really just boils down to how one side of the polling is in this space," Falcon said.
Jessica Rosenworcel, an FCC commissioner who has been a vocal supporter of net neutrality, noted that it has become a national issue -- and one that has broad approval from Americans. She pointed to a University of Maryland study that found 83 percent of people surveyed were against the FCC's move to undo the rules around net neutrality... Ernesto Falcon, legislative counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation...said he is "extraordinarily confident" that proponents of net neutrality will win. "It really just boils down to how one side of the polling is in this space," Falcon said.
The incoming Democrats COULD do a lot of things. They won't. They'll spend 90% of their time, energy, and press on a futile, symbolic push to impeach Trump for paying off a woman he had an affair with. A perfectly legal action (though distasteful) that he did before he was President. Symbolic because there is 0% chance the Senate will convict. They may well not even manage to keep their own party in line to get an impeachment - impeachment of the President has only happened twice in US history, most recently Clinton was impeached.
They'll get nothing useful done because all of their focus will be on hating Trump.
No. We're fucked. Next question.
I mean, come on. We have an alleged criminal in charge of the Executive Branch of the US Government.
One of his most successful job functions has been to get former Verizon executives into high level government positions.
And no one (past/present/future) at the big three telcos (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast) gives one goddamned fuck about you, your neighbor, or any other human being on this little dust ball we call home.
Net neutrality is actually a basic manifestation of ... a free market
More regulation is a freer market??
HAHAH AH HHA AHA AHA HAHH A HHA. AHHA A HA !
Remember the story is about restoring the FCC rules they lost. Liberals crave power, just as the original social democrat Hitler did. More brownshirts, more power, more violence! It all goes to 11!!
You do you. Or Hitler. Whatever you feel works best for you! Embrace your inner spirit Schutzstaffel and lock down all the internets!
You are either drunk, an idiot or both. Either way you lost me at Reductio ad Hitlerum.
Never ceases to amaze me how much of worthless cunts conservatives like you are. The only thing republicans do is try to get into,and then maintain, their grip on power. They gladly violate the very ideals that make up this country just for another year in office. And stupid cunts like you sit back and lie out of both sides of your mouth to help them, apparently because you don't give a fuck about this country.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's