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An Open Letter to the FCC

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Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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NHQ wrote: post #34
ordinaryperson wrote: post #7

The revocation of the Net Neutrality rules became a foregone conclusion once Donald Trump was elected. The sad reality is there's not much we, Eric Schneidermann or anyone else can do about it. There are 5 FCC commissioners but only 3 may be of the same party. Ajit Pai, Brendan Carr and Michael O'Rielly are locks to vote in favor, so it will pass, 3-2. At this point the best thing people can do is prepare to vote in…

Regulations are not the answer, for the very reason that they will flip-flop with political appointees, and it amounts to people begging for what they rightly should demand.

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Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by rhino369 »

openasocket wrote: post #94
krrrh wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can hear Pai defend his position here: http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/21/ajit-pai-net-neutrality-po... He claims that 80% of smaller ISPs have said that they delayed investment in infrastructure due to the costs associated with the net neutrality regs, and also that there was a reduction in overall broadband investment in the last two years and that has never happened before, outside of a recession. He thinks tha…

I don't really understand how net neutrality can hurt smaller ISPs. Net neutrality just prevents ISPs from using certain monetization schemes. It's not like you have to buy special equipment for net neutrality reasons, or maintain records to prove you're compliant, right?

It's not the net neutrality rules that cause the expense, it's the Title II requirements. The FCC had to use Title II to get the net neutrality rule in place.

Title II is a pretty harsh regulatory environment. The FCC had to suspend most of the rules for the ISPs. Otherwise, the FCC would have to set price control rules, etc.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by dragonwriter »

openasocket wrote: post #93
creaghpatr wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gun laws, abortion, the trans bathroom thing in NC...all recent issues that the GOP sided on states rights vs. federal regs On healthcare policy in particular the state specific policies continue to be enforced by the GOP. These aren’t positions I agree with btw I’m just pointing out recent examples. I think it’s fair to say Democrats would rather have centralized healthcare, gun laws, lgbt policies, and abortion acc…

I don't think those are good examples of states' rights legislation. Just because some NC Republican state Senators enacted a bathroom bill doesn't necessarily mean those Senators think the issue should be left to the states to decide, they could well prefer that their bathroom bill be made federal policy. Pushing legislation at the state or local level instead of federal can simply be a strategic decision rather tha…

> Obamacare specifically allows individual states to choose whether or not to participate in Medicaid expansion

Well, no. Pre-existing law allows states to choose whether or not to participate in Medicaid. The ACA made the expansion a core and integral part of Medicaid; the ability to stay in Medicaid but opt out of the expansion was a (rather bizarre) result of a lawsuit by States against the expansion.

> and gives the money for Medicaid directly to the states to use as they see fit.

No, the expansion isn't a block grant, it's an expansion to include a new population with a set federal-share reimbursement rate attached to that population.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by user-on1 »

Seems like america is going to loose its freedom until next president

ALREADY LOST - to pick a internet plan of their choice which is affordable and reliable to them.

ALREADY LOST - to have privacy.

LOOSING - what people will watch in their internet, so basically you will be target fed specific info and some info you will never come across leading to people will be kept in dark like the sugar news forever.

if we were celebrating July 4th for the freedom over internet then we can stop celebrating it from 2018 but luckily its not that. May be american citizens will stop being submissive and not take whatever is thrown at them and start to make their power and presence felt and be an example to other country citizens.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by buttcoinslol »

Tasboo wrote: post #36
sschueller wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to defend trump but it's congress that is corrupt to the core. The cable companies have been trying this many times before and congress is on their side. At this point it's just a matter of time. We need to get the corruption out of congress.

More like we need to limit the influence that money and lobbyists can have on elected officials. Changing seats in Congress will just put new people in place who will more than likely do the same thing.

The first step is repealing Citizens United v FEC, which won't be easy with Trump poised to make at least one more Supreme Court pick.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by saladeen »

Man, reddit's frontpage was almost 100% links to battleforthenet.com today.

I'd like to point out something not widely mentioned: battleforthenet is ran by org called 'Fight for the Future'; they are funded by Open Society Initiative, which is George Soros's organization.

As soon as I see his name involved, I assume that a) the appearance of a 'grassroot movement' is completely fake and just part of his playbook, and b) the end result will not benefit the common man, it will just negatively affect the economy and make more money for him. We are talking about a man that was literally willing to destroy economies of whole countries just to make a quick buck.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by eecc »

What I’m most worried - as an EU citizen - is that shit happening on the western shore of the Atlantic eventually blows over this side.

Thankfully TTIP was thrown under the bus - for now, tomorrow who can tell? - so it won’t be easy but I’m not feeling that safe. The same greedy multinational corporations sponsoring this public spoliation in the USA are massively present in EU and I don’t think Chinese Walls are a meaningful property of their structures...

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by user-on1 »

May be God's plans goes like...

2020 should be the most awesome year of humanity ever.

And he was piling up many good things for 2020.

But then he felt like there can be more good things for 2020.

So some angel suggested he will create some bad thing in few years before it and then solve those bad things in 2020 that way the awesomeness of 2020 will increase.

And God was like great idea, lets go for it.

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by jedberg »

ghrifter wrote: post #106
hysan wrote: post #69

I'm one of the people who has had part of their identity used to submit false comments. Found out when a journalist emailed me asking me to do a survey and some additional comments months ago. I proceeded to sign up for an API key[1] to confirm what was being claimed and turns out, it was true. The API is a bit limited, but I was also able to do searches using the falsely submitted comment to find others like it as w…

The FCC has effectively ignored the rules and stalled their way to victory. Nawh, they are following the power delegation given to them by congress. They dont have to do fuck all for public comments, other then recieve them, document them, and say "we got feedback but fuck yall we going forward"

> They dont have to do fuck all for public comments

That's not true. As a nonpartisan federal agency, the must show how they accounted for public comment and why the choice they made is either in line with the public comments or why it is justified to not be in line.

They have to do more than just accept the comments.

But by allowing all the fake comments, they were able to say "see everyone wants this, what we are doing is in line with the public comments".

Re: An Open Letter to the FCC

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Post by creaghpatr »

dragonwriter wrote: post #80
creaghpatr wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gun laws, abortion, the trans bathroom thing in NC...all recent issues that the GOP sided on states rights vs. federal regs On healthcare policy in particular the state specific policies continue to be enforced by the GOP. These aren’t positions I agree with btw I’m just pointing out recent examples. I think it’s fair to say Democrats would rather have centralized healthcare, gun laws, lgbt policies, and abortion acc…

> Gun laws, abortion, the trans bathroom thing in NC...all recent issues that the GOP sided on states rights vs. federal regs Nope, they aren't. They are all areas where the GOP has pushed at both the federal and state level in the same direction, caring about policy (excluding transgendered persons from general society, blocking abortion, and protecting individual firearms rights) not the relative balance of state/f…

They aren't mutually exclusive of course.

Obviously both parties are going to fight at all levels but in recent history GOP controls far more of state governments than Democrats so they strategically favor states rights. My original point is still that they haven't shifted away from that strategic view of states rights since the election because they still hold those advantages.

When Democrats dominate at state level I'd expect the poles to shift but that has not happened yet.

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