As someone who, over the past 20 years, has designed outside plant for literally every single major ISP in the country, his ideas are hilarious. It's like a plumber watching House M.D. & then telling a neurosurgeon that he could do it better. "They can just upgrade the poles!" "They can just bury everything they can't put on a pole!" "Who care about that gas line & power cable!"
Congress created the FCC in 1934 to "regulate interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable". If they had the political will, they could disband it just as easily. They could also revisit the FCCs charter periodically to make sure that it's keeping up with technological progress. Instead, they'd rather hold 50+ votes on repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Had *all* the D's voted no, we'd be having a different conversation.
Whatever, like you are privy to any of that. Making shit up just makes you look foolish.
Exactly what kind of mental acrobatics does it take to state that the Federal Communications Commission has no authority over a public communications system that was developed by DARPA & paid for via federal tax breaks & subsidies?
Cruz isn't fit to be a city sanitation worker.
"Robert McDowell, a Republican commissioner of the FCC, called the net neutrality proposal a "threat to Internet freedom" in an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal. He argues that consumer protection, which net neutrality advocates say is lacking, is adequate, and government intervention into the Internet is misguided."
Freedom to gouge consumers is still a freedom I guess.
Just remember, people with cancer who complained about how Obamacare was hurting them and their treatments were FOUND OUT TO BE dirty filthy liars and then were audited by the IRS.
Fixed that for you, you fucking AC shill.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ri...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Math, it's what for dinner.
Out of a cannon, in to the Sun, preferably.
Too many action items on that one, needs to be broken down into 3 separate petitions.
There are several. I believe one had over 1 million signatories. The problem is, they just don't give a shit.
Good example of a false dichotomy.
The (R)s voted no because Wheeler's proposal didn't go as far as they wanted in the dismantling of Net Neutrality.
All of their customers
going to their local governments and demanding an end to the franchise agreements that have locked them into a crappy duopoly (at best).
Finished That For You.
This actually happened years ago where I live. The problem is you just get one monopoly replaced with another (in all honestly, just slightly better & much more expensive) monopoly. We will never really have choice & competition until the "last mile" is regulated as a public utility.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
