House tells FCC to drop net neutrality
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House tells FCC to drop net neutrality
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Re: House tells FCC to drop net neutrality
#2“Today, Republicans first want to shut down the Internet, then they want to shut down the government,’’ said US Representative Edward J. Markey, a Malden Democrat...
“We look forward to forever prohibiting the overreach of the Federal Communications Commission,’’ Blackburn said.
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#3“Today, Republicans first want to shut down the Internet, then they want to shut down the government,’’ said US Representative Edward J. Markey, a Malden Democrat... “We look forward to forever prohibiting the overreach of the Federal Communications Commission,’’ Blackburn said.
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#4i'm not familiar with the rules proposed in december, was this in reference to the proposal that google and verizon drew up?
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#5Getting the FCC to make carriers play fair is a slow road to improvement and it's filled with potholes. I'd be more inclined to support regulation changes intended to make starting a new carrier easier.
Mark my words: Any net neutrality bill will benefit the existing carriers, and stifle telecom startups.
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#6From the outside it looks like the US political scene is a complete and ridiculous mess right now, led by the Republican Congress.
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#7I know on HN this is the part we focus on (the net) but based on the republican plans for the future of the federal government (which do have a real chance of happening) this would be the least you have to worry about. It's pretty much going to be every person for themselves because government is going to be a fraction of what it was and states, therefore residents will receive a fraction of the funding you are used to.
Not just the net, everything from roads, education, healthcare, prisons is going to become radically privatized.
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#8Another freedom lost in the land of the free.
Re: House tells FCC to drop net neutrality
#9i'm not familiar with the rules proposed in december, was this in reference to the proposal that google and verizon drew up?
I believe it was this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2028807
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#10Funny how politicians hotly debate the FCCs authority, but when it comes to DHS seizing domain names nobody says shit.