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Obama on net neutrality: My administration is against Internet fast lanes
By Brian Fung August 5 at 6:47 PM
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the U.S.-Africa Business Forum in Washington August 5, 2014. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
The last time President Obama weighed in on net neutrality, it was to offer a vague, tepid response claiming to support the idea without really defining how he understood it. It was a big contrast from what he'd previously said on the campaign trail in 2008.
On Tuesday, however, Obama offered a much more forceful defense of net neutrality, more clearly describing what activities he viewed as antithetical to the open Internet. Addressing reporters at a summit for African leaders in Washington, Obama said making the Internet more accessible to some at the expense of others was against his administration's policy:
One of the issues around net neutrality is whether you are creating different rates or charges for different content providers. That's the big controversy here. So you have big, wealthy media companies who might be willing to pay more and also charge more for spectrum, more bandwidth on the Internet so they can stream movies faster. I personally, the position of my administration, as well as a lot of the companies here, is that you dont want to start getting a differentiation in how accessible the Internet is to different users. You want to leave it open so the next Google and the next Facebook can succeed.
More here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/05/obama-strikes-a-populist-tone-on-net-neutrality/
(source: MoveOn.org on Facebook):
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)Am I reading that right?
TBF
(32,081 posts)you know that.
In this country it's a win.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)TBF
(32,081 posts)it was in the Washington Post. Here is the article:
Obama on net neutrality: My administration is against Internet fast lanes
By Brian Fung August 5 at 6:47 PM
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the U.S.-Africa Business Forum in Washington August 5, 2014. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
The last time President Obama weighed in on net neutrality, it was to offer a vague, tepid response claiming to support the idea without really defining how he understood it. It was a big contrast from what he'd previously said on the campaign trail in 2008.
On Tuesday, however, Obama offered a much more forceful defense of net neutrality, more clearly describing what activities he viewed as antithetical to the open Internet. Addressing reporters at a summit for African leaders in Washington, Obama said making the Internet more accessible to some at the expense of others was against his administration's policy:
One of the issues around net neutrality is whether you are creating different rates or charges for different content providers. That's the big controversy here. So you have big, wealthy media companies who might be willing to pay more and also charge more for spectrum, more bandwidth on the Internet so they can stream movies faster. I personally, the position of my administration, as well as a lot of the companies here, is that you dont want to start getting a differentiation in how accessible the Internet is to different users. You want to leave it open so the next Google and the next Facebook can succeed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/05/obama-strikes-a-populist-tone-on-net-neutrality/
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)which would put the comment in the context of the business success side of Net Neutrality. So, that he mentions the success of FB and Google is not out of line in such a setting and in such a context.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)When actions and words diverge one must watch the actions.
TBF
(32,081 posts)I thought it was interesting that this had changed again. But I can't seem to win on this site. I get slammed whether I post something either negative or positive.
Oh well.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)as most of his own speeches do.
It suggests that he defends net neutrality.
In fact, he is deliberately handing the internet to corporations that will destroy it.
The corporate doublespeak (i.e., LYING) is revolting and incessant at this point:
War is Peace.
Torture is Patriotic.
Giving the internet to corporations ensures equal access.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017189841
Obama's FCC Incest: Meet the Cable Cronies Who Control Net Neutrality's Future
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024986869
The murder of net neutrality
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024903646
Obama's FCC Destroying Net Neutrality: FCC Chairmans Many Excuses
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/05/fcc_chairman_tom_wheeler_s_lame_excuses_for_his_net_neutrality_proposal.2.html
TBF
(32,081 posts)do you have evidence that he is "deliberately handing the internet to corporations that will destroy it"?
Has there been some legislation I haven't seen or something?