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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts) Mon Apr 28, 2014, 11:09 AM Apr 2014

The FCC Needs to Start Taking Care of Americans and Stop Taking Care of Big Business

From Ring of Fire:

What is wrong with the FCC? At the beginning of this year, the Supreme Court passed down a ruling in the case of Verizon v. FCC that struck down the way the FCC was trying to enforce Net Neutrality. Now, the FCC has come back with a response to the Court’s decision that has left everyone doubting whether it even likes the American people.

The Verizon case struck down the scheme that the FCC had in place. The Court found that because the FCC had failed to classify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as common carriers, it was not able to regulate the priority the ISPs granted to certain types of traffic. The ISPs are, therefore, able to grant preferential transfer speeds to certain types of traffic.

Giving preferential treatment to certain types of traffic (data) matters. This is why.

You can read the full article here at Ring of Fire.

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The FCC Needs to Start Taking Care of Americans and Stop Taking Care of Big Business (Original Post) GoLeft TV Apr 2014 OP

The closed network of the "Iron Triangle" prevents this. TheBlackAdder Apr 2014 #1

The key to classifying the internet as a common carrier, House of Roberts Apr 2014 #2

that could be said about pretty much any federal entity these days Doctor_J Apr 2014 #3

TheBlackAdder

(28,202 posts)

1. The closed network of the "Iron Triangle" prevents this.

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 11:18 AM

Apr 2014

You have three players: Legislators, Bureaucracies, and Special Business Interests

LEGISLATORS:

-They operate committees that directly impact the bureaucracy in question.

- They are well-funded by special business interests and are tone deaf to anyone else.

- They lean on the bureaucracy by threatening cuts, firing of executives, or altering the bureaucracy.

BUREAUCRACY:

- They are a stable and slow changing organization, supposedly treating all evenly.

- They try to exist with minimal change, however, threats from legislators make them unwilling accomplices.

- They try to remain politically neutral, as their jobs and roles span many administrations.

SPECIAL INTERESTS:

- They are well funded businesses with the goal to make money. In this case mainly cable tv, phone, and internet providers.

- They pay off the legislators to act as their agents in government to effect change beneficial to them.

Private people and groups have VIRTUALLY NO EFFECT piercing this closed network, since money is the driver.

House of Roberts

(5,171 posts)

2. The key to classifying the internet as a common carrier,

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 11:39 AM

Apr 2014

is it must be used as a communications service. You know, like just now when I communicated this comment to all you folks out there.

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

3. that could be said about pretty much any federal entity these days

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 12:30 PM

Apr 2014

Mussolini's definition of fascism fits the US to a T

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