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The GOP game plan on net neutrality - Alex Byers - POLITICO
The GOP game plan on net neutrality
Republicans are pursuing a strategy of investigation, legislation and complaining about the FCC making policy behind closed doors.
And heres the thing Peach. The GOP wants the cable companies to be able to have pay for play "lanes". Which would change the way you currently get your Internet.
Don't believe me. Go ahead and ask any of them anywhere. And they wont say they are FOR pay for play but what they will say is "What is wrong with paying for using bandwidth?" or some other rhetorical question.
Yes which the people do not want and why their bills have gone nowhere.
Exactly!! But Mark Lee and republicans want it and are against Net Neutrality which only means to keep the Internet the way it is now.
This is the Dept. doing it where we the people can't do anything at all about it.
It is unconstitutional for a Dept. to write expansion proposals from a previous bill passed by congress and they themselves vote on it.
Well ok...Thats an aside to my issue with Mark Lee's whining.
That's Mike Lee not Mark.
FCC is doing this knowing that it will go to court eventually but gives them 2 or 3 years to get control over the net (their foot in the door so to speak)
They know that the GOP has no backbone and will not do anything other than whine and just let the Supreme Court rule on it.
Government should not be doing it.
We the people should. If a customer does not like the way the Internet companies are doing things then you don't choose to be a customer.
New companies will rise and offer what we the customers wants.
The FCC should stay out of it.
I don't see any reason on earth to leave this in the hands of the cable companies. They will rape more than ever and since the competition is scarce you can go with them or go with them.
Before you even start yes there is technically competition but not real competition in any sense of the word. It'll be like Mike Jordan "competing" with some kid in a wheelchair. Technically it is competition but...
What part of we the customers control companies are you not getting?
That sounds good but its sounds better than the reality reflects.
The companies do not control us.
No they dont....Are we still on the topic of hiding bills?
There is plenty of internet services out there other than cable.
Yes, and there are plenty of wheelchair bound kids who would love to compete with Jordan too.
It is the Cable services who wants this government control because they do have more competition and are starting to die out. Their stocks are falling and their prices are outrageous.
Are Cable Companies in Trouble - GuruFocus.com
The bolded is a flat out lie. So I have a question for you. Is the cable services wanting it a bad thing as you suggest? What if I could show you the cable companies DO NOT WANT THIS AT ALL. Would that be an indication of whether Net Neutrality is being bad or good also?
Because they are spending a ton of money OPPOSING this.