Probably good that he waited until after the election to do this. Might have energized the youth vote who really care about this issue.

Really dodged a bullet with that one.

I was thinking the same thing.

All other forms of communication have been co-opted by our corporate masters.

just WHERE can this request go??? I'm sorry to confess that I'm NOT optimistic on this issue - and I DO consider it the last bullhorn we (the people) have. When this is gone, it's time to grab our guns. And I'm NOT an advocate of guns!

And I guess I'm to assume he got the ONLY qualified individual he could find for the job.

Geez, I'd feel better if he appointed Kim Dotcom to the position. Arrested on a warrant for pissing Hollywood off.

He's a lot better than the REAL criminals running amok in Washington right now.

Rhetorical question.

You know the one of all his "accomplishments"?

You know the ones where he "Pledged to...." do something?

Or "Committed to....." doing something?

This will fit nicely on there.

ANOTHER VICTORY LAP!!!!

Drop your socks and grab your...mouse; we're poised for a tiered internet experience in America!

memorized by faux sincere speeches about net neutrality while TPP becomes a done deal is unleashed by Dear Leader. How many times can this man get away with the same routine?

Part of his "rope-a-dope" strategy I guess...

What the hell is this about? And why the silence during a recent election?? Oh yeah, we can't give young people anything they care about! This is such a strange move, it is rather suspicious. If he means it, then I'm all for it. But if he's rope-a-doping us again...

A better solution might have been to appoint a chair with a history of supporting net neutrality but hey. At least he's finally responding to the FCC's proposal.

Why the frick did Obama wait until AFTER the election to weigh in on this? Because Democrats needed the donations from the internet companies?

This is considered a fringe issue for young people (unimportant demographic) because it's new media and tech. The party mainstream can't make a political issue about the Internet (aka "things we don't understand and don't have to&quot and risk scaring the olds who struggle to find YouTube on the UHF dial.

Only young people (and nerds) care about things like net neutrality and copyright wars. The rest are more than content to just keep on truckin' to the same half-dozen or so 8-track tapes they BOUGHT LEGITIMATELY FOR A WHOLE GODDAMN NICKEL AT JOE'S VARIETY STORE!!!

Most people don't care as long as they can still watch Monday Night Football and stalk their grandkids on "Bookface." The digital natives do care, but they don't have the pocket change to make any significant political inroads. All they (we, I'm a member of that generation even though I avoid social media like the plague) can do is make protest memes and hack things with an Anonymous logo. So long as the entrenched interests can rely on the ignorance of the mainstream populace who don't care about innovation and fairness (because they don't use the Internet or don't care as much as the young do), net neutrality is dead. After all, why should the olds care about "equal content delivery" when they did just fine with three TV networks and AM radio?

Learning from the Obama 2008 digital outreach strategy, the Tea Party movement aggressively used the Internet to spread their message. That's why you see right wing memes on Facebook a lot. And see http://myrightwingdad.blogspot.com/

???????

I doubt that this moron have any idea about the origins of the net. Primarily the U.S Government.

"The US Department of Defense awarded contracts as early as the 1960s for packet network systems, including the development of the ARPANET (which would become the first network to use the Internet Protocol.)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

that Tom doesn't believe in that. The President appoints a fox to guard the hen house then tells the fox he should treat the chickens nicely.

Most of information and content wil be transmitted via IP or Internet Protocol = online.

If the Telcos and the Cable Cos take control of internet content distribution by establishing pricing for content distributors while also charging you and I to access content, we will be SO FUCKING SCREWED. It will make the present main stream media take down look like a sleepover.

Since humor sells and explains much better at times than real narrative, I give you The Oatmeal's letter to Ted Cruz: "Dear Senator Ted Cruz"
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/net_neutrality

Make no mistake about it people, this is a major fight we can not afford to loose.