Breitbart: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai plans a quick repeal of the controversial net neutrality order and wants to replace it with lighter regulations intended to preserve an open internet.
Chairman Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump, met with telecommunications groups on Tuesday to discuss his plans .
The net neutrality order, created by former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler back in early 2015, regulates the internet similar to a public monopoly. Net neutrality prohibited telecommunications companies from creating internet “fast lanes” that would ensure consistent Skype video chat, and high-resolution Netflix streaming. read more
I’m glad to see these falsely named regulations being rolled back. There was a great hue and cry about rolling back the regulation preventing ISP’s from selling browser history. All this regulation did was to give the monopoly on selling your history to Democrat donor Google.
There isn’t one Obama regulation that prioritized individual rights and free markets over politicial donors.
I never thought I really knew enough about this law to support or condemn it, but my gut said it was bad. And I always trust my gut.
Glad to see this news.
Excellent! The sooner he does it, the better.
Hear that? It’s the sound of progressive heads exploding everywhere.
Why can’t we repeal Obamacare with the same alacrity?
Why haven’t they started building the Wall yet?
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Barky.
What Barkey did was to institute the democRat vision of their New Communism of unnecessary, over-reaching, over-bearing, out-of-control, dictatorial “regulation”, with insane Bathroom Rules for Radicals, sanitized transcripts for our “protection” along Pay-To-Play graft, massive corruption and a continuous stream of preposterous propaganda (lies) to prop it all up with. The goal was always to slow America and drag us down to a Third World level of productivity to let our enemies catch up. Weaken America anyway possible thru wild, irresponsible spending on frivolous agendas and distractions. Remember that the next time a democRat runs for office! Net Neutrality was only a small section of the swamp, but I’m glad it’s being rolled back!
Graceia – it wasn’t a law, just a rule passed 3-2 by unelected officials but which permitted vast intrusions on your private life. It was working its way through the federal courts, with mixed results.
There are other, so-called reasonable sites, that praise net-neuter because the idiots there *believe* it will make internet access cheaper and *equally* available for start-up internet companies to compete against the giants like Google and Netflix.
Actually, like any other gov’t program of late, it would just make access just as expensive for the start-ups as it is for the large bandwidth users. Giving the major ISP companies an excuse to raise rates (the gov’t is making us raise the rates!). This utopian idea needs to go the way of the do-do bird.
Over reach, get rid of it. It gave netflix and other such companies
priority band width over private users.
Phuckem.