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FCC Panel Wants To Tax Internet-Using Businesses, Give the Money To ISPs (arstechnica.com)
The FCC's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), which includes members like AT&T, Comcast, Google Fiber, Sprint, and other ISPs and industry representatives, is proposing a tax on websites to pay for rural broadband. Ars Technica reports: If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators. The collected money would go into state rural broadband deployment funds that would help bring faster Internet access to sparsely populated areas. Similar universal service fees are already assessed on landline phone service and mobile phone service nationwide. Those phone fees contribute to federal programs such as the FCC's Connect America Fund, which pays AT&T and other carriers to deploy broadband in rural areas.
The BDAC tax proposal is part of a "State Model Code for Accelerating Broadband Infrastructure Deployment and Investment." Once finalized by the BDAC, each state would have the option of adopting the code. An AT&T executive who is on the FCC advisory committee argued that the recommended tax should apply even more broadly, to any business that benefits financially from broadband access in any way. The committee ultimately adopted a slightly more narrow recommendation that would apply the tax to subscription services and advertising-supported services only. The BDAC model code doesn't need approval from FCC commissioners -- "it is adopted by the BDAC as a model code for the states to use, at their discretion," Ajit Pai's spokesperson told Ars. As for how big the proposed taxes would be, the model code says that states "shall determine the appropriate State Universal Service assessment methodology and rate consistent with federal law and FCC policy."
The BDAC tax proposal is part of a "State Model Code for Accelerating Broadband Infrastructure Deployment and Investment." Once finalized by the BDAC, each state would have the option of adopting the code. An AT&T executive who is on the FCC advisory committee argued that the recommended tax should apply even more broadly, to any business that benefits financially from broadband access in any way. The committee ultimately adopted a slightly more narrow recommendation that would apply the tax to subscription services and advertising-supported services only. The BDAC model code doesn't need approval from FCC commissioners -- "it is adopted by the BDAC as a model code for the states to use, at their discretion," Ajit Pai's spokesperson told Ars. As for how big the proposed taxes would be, the model code says that states "shall determine the appropriate State Universal Service assessment methodology and rate consistent with federal law and FCC policy."
I love you people... each morning, I wake up and read Slashdot and love learning nifty new works like "Murican" and "Libtard" and "Lean-jig". If it weren't for Slashdot, I don't think I'd be able to keep my relationship to the U.S. strong. There's nothing as beautiful as people calling themselves Americans displaying their true American spirit by showing us what "United we stand" and "United States" and "With liberty and justice for all" etc... really mean.
... was it "Murican" way of defining a person who votes sometimes Democrat and sometimes Republican and sometimes independent. And when they vote, they vote based on the individual not on the party they belong to. And sometimes they vote simply to attempt to support the constitution and the spirit of the country by hoping to ensure that checks and balances remain in place? Is there a word for people who are neither liberal or conservative by instead are educated and actually care about the wellbeing and hopefully also the needs of as many American people as possible?
... let me borrow your term... libtards who oppose everything the current administration does. This is the same as how people like yourself probably disliked most everything Obama's administration attempted to do. People like you and them tend to believe there must be a team sport involved in politics. It is almost as if you have define yourself as a supporter of a team and whether you agree with the actions of your own team or not, it's more important that the other team loses face. As such, when a member of one team or another proposes something which could in fact be good for everyone, instead of working together to represent the overall best interests of everyone, each team attempts to sabotage the other's efforts. This is in fact the current systematic approach to American politics because nearly everyone today votes for
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I suppose you would have a lovely word to describe people like us. It wouldn't be something simple like idiot or asshole... at least I hope it wouldn't. Maybe you have a suitable onomatopoeia or maybe a portmanteau?
Also... to let you know... while I voted for and supported Obama, I would voted for Bush if he opposed Clinton this time as I don't believe in Clinton and I believe Jeb would be little more than a puppet for the party like his brother and father before him. Though I would have voted for Sanders against pretty much any of the candidates this time around... even if I consider him a sellout for joining a party. And if I knew that "orange man" stood a chance of winning, I might have registered as republican just to help Romney get into place because I didn't think it was fair that republicans ended up being unrepresented in the last election. In fact, Romney has grown up a little since he ran for president and I think that if he would actually take a few classes on history and politics at a university and he did some night school and learned about the constitution and the actual scope of the office of the president, he would be a good president now.
I'm also at a loss over "sonoppose". I know a guy like you, he was trying to be a 20 year man in the army and he pissed so many people off that they waited until the absolute last minute possible to screw him out of his 20. He makes these words up too and when people disagree with him, he speaks in what sounds like a poor down syndrome impersonation saying things like "Murican" and such. To be honest, I'm not sure what this is meant to accomplish other than what a child might do by mimicking another person as annoyingly as possible. Of course, when a child does this to an adult, an adult simply ignores it an considers the child's behaviour something that will hopefully improve with maturity.
On a more serious note, let's address you're assertion I can only interpret as meaning that people don't like the recent policies of the FCC because they don't like Trump.
I believe there may be some truth to this. I believe there are