A great victory for the internet!

Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now
What happened?
In May 2014, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler released a plan that would have allowed companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to discriminate online and create pay-to-play fast lanes.

Millions of you spoke out — and fought back.

Thanks to the huge public and political outcry, Wheeler shelved his original proposal, and on Feb. 4, 2015, he announced that he will base new Net Neutrality rules on Title II of the Communications Act, giving Internet users the strongest protections possible.

The FCC will vote on Wheeler’s proposal at its Feb. 26 meeting. If all goes well, it will be a watershed victory for activists who have fought for a decade to protect the open Internet.



What is Net Neutrality?
Net Neutrality is the Internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online. This is the definition of an open Internet.

Net Neutrality means an Internet that enables and protects free speech. It means that Internet service providers should provide us with open networks — and should not block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company shouldn't decide who you can call and what you say on that call, your ISP shouldn't be concerned with the content you view or post online.

Without Net Neutrality, cable and phone companies could carve the Internet into fast and slow lanes. An ISP could slow down its competitors' content or block political opinions it disagreed with. ISPs could charge extra fees to the few content companies that could afford to pay for preferential treatment — relegating everyone else to a slower tier of service. This would destroy the open Internet.


For the stupid asses like "shouldbecensored", read and then make a comment not emanated from your rectums...

Hey stupid fuck, your own link confirms that the Internet was placed under the 1934 telecom act..

You promise to "protect free speech" by heavily regulating it.
 
Expect pricing for the consumers to increase for provider R&D and roll out.
However, I agree with the decision, so, yes, we are going to pay more for service.
Fake Jake, the guy who claims he is a Republican.

While championing every Democrat issue and talking point. ...... :cool:
Says Mr. Jihadist, who hates the American system. The far right would take your religious freedom in a heart beat, Muslim Mike. :lol:
 
*gasp*
I didn't realise that the government will be in control of the actual content of the internet!!!
I hope the Republicans are able to repeal that part of the legislation at least!

Sure you didn't.

The left supports overturning the Clinton telecommunications act precisely because you want the FCC to have control of the content of the net.
I don't want that at all!
I don't want the content on the internet to be controlled like content on the phone lines is controlled by the government under this law.

I never thought of it like that.
 
Expect pricing for the consumers to increase for provider R&D and roll out.
However, I agree with the decision, so, yes, we are going to pay more for service.
Fake Jake, the guy who claims he is a Republican.

While championing every Democrat issue and talking point. ...... :cool:
Says Mr. Jihadist, who hates the American system. The far right would take your religious freedom in a heart beat, Muslim Mike. :lol:

It is great fun to watch libertarians talk as if the are Republican.
 
The Obama Administration thinks "Freedom" is a defect they need to fix.

Obama and Wheeler think freedom of speech is too important to let just anybody have it. They are going to protect it by restricting it from the wrong hands.


You are free to worship and praise Obama.

Anything else, not so much.
 
Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now
What happened?
In May 2014, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler released a plan that would have allowed companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to discriminate online and create pay-to-play fast lanes.

Millions of you spoke out — and fought back.

Thanks to the huge public and political outcry, Wheeler shelved his original proposal, and on Feb. 4, 2015, he announced that he will base new Net Neutrality rules on Title II of the Communications Act, giving Internet users the strongest protections possible.

The FCC will vote on Wheeler’s proposal at its Feb. 26 meeting. If all goes well, it will be a watershed victory for activists who have fought for a decade to protect the open Internet.



What is Net Neutrality?
Net Neutrality is the Internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online. This is the definition of an open Internet.

Net Neutrality means an Internet that enables and protects free speech. It means that Internet service providers should provide us with open networks — and should not block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company shouldn't decide who you can call and what you say on that call, your ISP shouldn't be concerned with the content you view or post online.

Without Net Neutrality, cable and phone companies could carve the Internet into fast and slow lanes. An ISP could slow down its competitors' content or block political opinions it disagreed with. ISPs could charge extra fees to the few content companies that could afford to pay for preferential treatment — relegating everyone else to a slower tier of service. This would destroy the open Internet.


For the stupid asses like "shouldbecensored", read and then make a comment not emanated from your rectums...

Hey stupid fuck, your own link confirms that the Internet was placed under the 1934 telecom act..

You promise to "protect free speech" by heavily regulating it.

No you stupid fucking hemorrhoid, my link confirms that the stupid shit you posted below is the product of you inhaling your own shit...

I assume you seek to silence criticism of Obama and the democrats? You drool over this as a way to put the genie back in the bottle and have the party control all information again?

A highly regulated internet where all submissions are approved by the FCC in advance of posting is your dream?
 
A great "victory" for the Internet??? Have you read anything, anything about the myriad of problems with the FCC's version of "Net Neutrality"? Do you have any idea why hundreds of small businesses fought "Net Neutrality"? Do you know anything about the cost estimates of what "Net Neutrality" is going to cost businesses, large and small, to comply with the hundreds of pages of regulations that are included in "Net Neutrality"? (Were you are that the "Net Neutrality" proposal that has been approved is hundreds of pages long?)

You'd think that on this one issue--just this one issue--that at least a fair amount of liberals would allow their brains to break free from liberal propaganda and see the threat that this latest bit of White House socialism poses to Internet innovation, investment, business, and speed.
 
Watch.. if this passes, say bye bye to your $7.99 Netflix.

Just like you did to your healthcare.

:lol:
 
The FCC is now empowered to step-on Internet Service Providers who have heretofore been squeezing the little guy and plotting to sell-off the high-speed lanes on the Internet to the highest corporate bidders with deep pockets...

This is one of those rare occasions when I find myself actually applauding the Obumble administration for doing something right...
 
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No you stupid fucking hemorrhoid, my link confirms that the stupid shit you posted below is the product of you inhaling your own shit...

Alright, you're a retard and a liar - no point in bothering with you.
So I'm a liar for posting your own words???!!!!...lol

Try again hemorrhoid, here they are aagin...

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What freedom have YOU lost?
Placing the FCC in charge of the content of the Internet offers the opportunity for the government to directly control what is said online.

I support freedom, you support dictatorship. Thus I fight this and you rejoice. You dream of an internet on par with North Korea.

RIP Free and Open Internet
 
FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules For Open Internet The Two-Way NPR

The FCC approved net neutrality by a 3-2 vote! A free and open internet benefits everyone! A more accessible internet will help geek culture proliferate! I am not ashamed to say I am proud to be a gamer! I grew up with games like Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic and I don't have any problems introducing geek culture to the next generation! A more accessible internet would make that much easier!

How does government regulation ever produce a "free and open" anything? Bureaucrats aren't interested in freedom. they're interested in control.

This is a huge defeat for freedom.
 

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