This isn't really news, more of a mere formality. The federal government department heads are all expected to resign or be fired when there's a regime shift in the Oval Office (party change).
Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC
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Re: Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC
#12Wait, he's the cable industry shill, right? So this is the best news ever?
Everything is relative. He actually wasn't that bad for being an industry shill. The next commissioner will be worse (for consumers).
> The next commissioner will be worse (for consumers).
The next commissioner will probably by worse for consumers based on the historical sentiment of previous commissioners, is what you probably meant.
While I absolutely agree, we have no idea what the future holds.
Re: Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC
#13Wait, he's the cable industry shill, right? So this is the best news ever?
He was the opposite in the recent times. Unlike any of his predecessors, he pushed a tremendous amount of consumer friendly policies and curbed monopolistic abuses of incumbents. He failed to repeal anti-competitive local state laws which ban municipal Internet, but he managed to pass Net Neutrality rules. It would be a pity if all that effort will be dismantled by corrupted commissioners backed by monopolists who ha…
Absolutely, he pushed a lot of things forward, as well as cracking down on obvious things like bandwidth capped accounts advertised as "unlimited" etc.
Re: Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC
#14Got an error when clicking on that link: "Wired.com is not included in your Comcast Internet Basic package. Click here to upgrade to Comcast Internet Extreme for $9.99 more a month, for access to Wired.com and twenty other premium web sites!"
I realize that's satire, but actual net neutrality violations are much cleverer and mostly won't even be visible to users. For example, it's more likely that Wired would (be forced to) pay Comcast a cut of their ad revenue.
And they wouldn't be outright blocked. They'd just be throttled to 128kbps and limited to only one open TCP connection at a time from that customer.
Re: Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I realize that's satire, but actual net neutrality violations are much cleverer and mostly won't even be visible to users. For example, it's more likely that Wired would (be forced to) pay Comcast a cut of their ad revenue.
And they wouldn't be outright blocked. They'd just be throttled to 128kbps and limited to only one open TCP connection at a time from that customer.
Think on the bright side of things. Maybe web developers will need to clean up their crap and not pile on 20mb of JS.
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#16Dammit. We were so close. So close. Hang in there, guys..
I'm assuming you're referring to getting Net Neutrality? If so, I have a similar sentiment.
Re: Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC
#17Got an error when clicking on that link: "Wired.com is not included in your Comcast Internet Basic package. Click here to upgrade to Comcast Internet Extreme for $9.99 more a month, for access to Wired.com and twenty other premium web sites!"
That's funny - I completely missed that your message was satire until I saw the child comments. You see, I had just gotten done seeing this message:
"Here’s The Thing With Ad Blockers We get it: Ads aren’t what you’re here for. But ads help us keep the lights on. So, add us to your ad blocker’s whitelist or pay $1 per week for an ad-free version of WIRED. Either way, you are supporting our journalism. We’d really appreciate it."
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
And they wouldn't be outright blocked. They'd just be throttled to 128kbps and limited to only one open TCP connection at a time from that customer.
Think on the bright side of things. Maybe web developers will need to clean up their crap and not pile on 20mb of JS.
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Re: Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC
#19Wait, he's the cable industry shill, right? So this is the best news ever?
I've covered a lot of Tom Wheeler's work in the last few years. He's probably the best FCC head in the past two decades. If he had a rep previously for being an industry shill, he blew it out of the water in his three years at the helm.
(Meanwhile, Michael Powell made the opposite move: He's currently in charge of the cable industry group.)
Re: Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC
#20This isn't really news, more of a mere formality. The federal government department heads are all expected to resign or be fired when there's a regime shift in the Oval Office (party change).
Incorrect. FCC commissioners serve a term and Wheeler's term was up June 30, 2018, so this is an early resignation and opens up a spot for Obama or Trump to fill.