If you like your internet, you can keep your internet
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday adopted sweeping new regulations sought by President Obama for how Americans use and do business on the Internet, in a party-line vote that is sure to be challenged by the broadband industry.
The commission, following a contentious meeting, voted 3-2 to adopt its so-called net neutrality plan — a proposal that remained secret in the run-up to the final vote.
On its surface, the plan is aimed at barring service providers from creating paid “fast lanes” on the Internet, which consumer advocates and Internet companies worry would edge out cash-strapped startups and smaller Internet-based businesses. Chairman Tom Wheeler said it would ensure an “open, unfettered network.”
But the rules, more broadly, would put the Internet in the same regulatory camp as the telephone by classifying it like a public utility, meaning providers like Comcast or Verizon would have to act in the “public interest” when providing a mobile connection to your home or phone.
Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai, who delivered some of the most scathing criticism of the plan Thursday, warned the policy represents a “monumental shift” to “government control of the Internet.”
Further, he accused the FCC of bending to the will of Obama, who last fall came out in favor of such a sweeping regulatory plan.
Pai said the FCC was reversing course from past positions for one reason: “President Obama told us to do so.” […]
Fellow Republican member Michael O’Rielly called the plan a “monumental and unlawful power grab.”
Republican lawmakers, as well, blasted the proposal as an antiquated solution that would hurt, not help, Internet innovation.
“The Obama Administration needs to get beyond its 1930s rotary-telephone mindset and embrace the future,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement.
While the broadband industry is expected to sue, Republicans in Congress said they will try to pass legislation scrapping the rules, although it’s unlikely that such a bill would be signed into law by Obama.
The FCC is “promising” not to use some of the powers granted it under Title II towards the Internet … Like price controls and regulation of content.
Yeah, right. Just like the IRS would never use its powers to intimidate and harass the Enemies of The Administration.
Mitch McConnell doesn’t get to lecture anybody about the future
Oh, you’ll still have your Internet, but you’re gonna start paying out the nose for it.
Remember, this entire “Net Neutrality” canard was started by Netflix attempting to foist off their bandwidth costs to the ISPs, who rightfully protested. Consequently, AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, etc. are going to pass the costs right along to the consumers. Most likely by adopting metered-access pay-per-gigabyte pricing.
As the saying goes, be careful what you ask for…
I dunno what everyone’s so worried about. I mean, the government did a great job of solving the problem of cable TV pricing.
Just like they solved the problem of health care costs.
Most likely by adopting metered-access pay-per-gigabyte pricing.
I hope they do, just for the head-exploding outrage from the exact same people who were pushing for NetNeutrality in the first place.
I mean, you pay your gas, electric, water and (possibly) phone bills on a metered basis – use more, you pay more – so a per-packet or per-byte charge is really the only fair way to do network billing, too. Which is why it’ll never happen; where’s the fun of ‘fairness’ when you can be handing out favors to a preferred constituency, paid for by your political enemies.
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>Bottom line, this Bergoglio-Kasper plan is nothing less than the coming to fruition of a satanic plot to utterly dismantle the Church Militant from the inside-out; the priesthood, the episcopate, the papacy, the Mass and the Eucharist, all in one final coup de grace, after over a century of preparation.
Is this The Abomination of Desolation? It is the strongest candidate in all of Church history, and thus CANNOT be dismissed or ignored as such.
Let us conclude on a hope-filled note by repeating Daniel 11: 32…
And such as deal wickedly against the covenant shall deceitfully dissemble: but the people that know their God shall prevail and succeed.
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>5. Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid to welcome Christ and accept his power. Help the Pope and all those who wish to serve Christ and with Christ’s power to serve the human person and the whole of mankind. Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ. To his saving power open the boundaries of States, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture, civilization and development. Do not be afraid. Christ knows “what is in man”. He alone knows it.
So often today man does not know what is within him, in the depths of his mind and heart. So often he is uncertain about the meaning of his life on this earth. He is assailed by doubt, a doubt which turns into despair. We ask you therefore, we beg you with humility and trust, let Christ speak to man. He alone has words of life, yes, of eternal life. <
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When the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913, personal income taxes were set at 1% on incomes up to $20,000 (the equivalent of $464,000 in current dollars). By the 1930s, the rate had risen to 4% on incomes up to $4,000 (about $70,000 today); the next bracket was 8% of income to $6,000 ($106,000), climbing from there.
In 1953, just 40 years after the 16th Amendment, you paid 22.2% on your first $2,000 ($17,200) in income, and income over $8,000 ($68,800) was taxed at 38%. If you made the equivalent of $464,000 (the cutoff for the original 1% rate), you would be in the 77% bracket.
Never, ever, EVER believe a government bureaucrat who tells you that he will not abuse the powers he’s claimed for himself. It might not be today, and it might not be tomorrow, but it never takes too long for those with power to test that power to the limit.
Obama’s FCC commissars need to be clapped into stocks in L’Enfant Plaza, where good patriots can sell rotten produce to their countrymen. Until this sort of behavior becomes personally painful, we’ll never see the end of it.
You just have to be wrong about all of this. Would these fine folks lie to you?
I was going to slink off to draw myself a warm bath, pour a nice glass of wine, put on some Beethoven, and open a vein. Then I saw this video of the Louisville Leopards covering Zeppelin.
Perhaps I am not yet ready to abandon hope.
This is a very succinct statement of just what has occurred.
The Obama Way is the new normal. God help us all.
It was nice kibitzing with you all…
. . . but kibitzing is a form of interstate commerce, and subject to taxation.
So, the out of control leviathan again grants itself more power over the minute details of our lives.
Shocking.