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Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.
Good luck attracting and retaining talent if you can't pay market prices for executives.
Can someone ELI5 this? Why would the FCC visit your site?
Would be funny if porn sites implemented this. If FCC employees are like other federal departments there's a good chance that's how they spend a lot of their time[1]. [1] http://www.seeyounexttuesday.com/study-federal-employees-spe...
TFA cites a few isolated cases and sensationalizes it. The government is the biggest employer in the United States; a few dozen does not an epidemic make.
http://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-tom-wheeler-remarks-nct...
"Let me be clear. If someone acts to divide the Internet between “haves” and “have-nots,” we will use every power at our disposal to stop it."
"Prioritizing some traffic by forcing the rest of the traffic into a congested lane won’t be permitted under any proposed Open Internet rule. We will not allow some companies to force Internet users into a slow lane so that others with special privileges can have superior service."
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Sure fire way to encourage politicans to take bribes as well as ensuring only the independently wealthy can be politicians,
> take bribes as well as ensuring only the independently wealthy can be politicians Those are other, unrelated problems that need to be addressed in their own right, but cannot be used as justification for high pay scale of politicians.
The pictures comment lead me to Tom's list of speeches, the latest of which directly contradicts the claims being made here. Are we sure the FCC is the bad guy? http://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-tom-wheeler-remarks-nct... "Let me be clear. If someone acts to divide the Internet between “haves” and “have-nots,” we will use every power at our disposal to stop it." "Prioritizing some traffic by forcing the rest of th…
The FCC could put the money where their mouth is by re-classifying ISPs as "Title II - Common Carriers."
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> take bribes as well as ensuring only the independently wealthy can be politicians Those are other, unrelated problems that need to be addressed in their own right, but cannot be used as justification for high pay scale of politicians.
I suspect most high ranking government officials in the US could make significantly more in the private sector so it's hard to claim there's a high scale of pay for politicians -- at least in the US.
I think the focus on the FCC is too narrow. In my opinion throttling all .gov addresses would be more effective. Including .edu addresses would affect a population with plenty of time on their hands and who aren't afraid to let everyone know about their problems.
And a bunch of people who don't have time on their hands (staff and faculty) who will probably just go "Fuck you guys, now you're getting in the way of work."
I'd like to see a law that government offices can only have an internet connection as fast as the slowest constituent.
Their IT staff probably doesn't deserve this either.