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Bwaaahaaahaahaa!!! Cable companies 'stunned' by Obama's 'extreme' net neutrality proposals
Net Neutrality: President Obama's Plan for a Free and Open Internet
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Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Oh, who am I kidding? Run, motherf@&%#s, RUN!
TBF
(32,062 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)I'm afraid my cynicism meter is redlined on this issue.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)good on him. Hopefully this will somehow come to pass.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)And that means it's where the Dems raise the most money.
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)jalan48
(13,869 posts)Maybe it's just part of Obama's "Hope and Change" act. Say the right things, get elected, then abandon those ideals once in power. Now that he knows Republicans control the government he can go back to saying the right things, knowing that what he says has no chance of coming about.
pscot
(21,024 posts)Still good advice, after all these years.
lark
(23,102 posts)He talks leftist but his appointments and actions (TPP) are definitely right leaning.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)second your astute observation!
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)... Question is, if PO appointed him, can he fire him? Seriously.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)can be terminated at any time. You serve at the "Pleasure" of the President.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)on the issue for public consumption, without any fear of jeopardizing the goal of giving back to the corporate overlords. Wheeler will will fall on the anti-neutrality sword and be richly rewarded for it. The only real losers will be...the consumer. BUT, we will all be able to draw comfort from the knowledge that Obama was against it after he was for it.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Chained CPI. I expect him to announce any day that he wants the Patriot Act rolled back.
Initech
(100,079 posts)By caving to net neutrality all we're doing is feeding the wealth addiction. Good for Obama.
Baitball Blogger
(46,723 posts)tecelote
(5,122 posts)I know.
But, still. do Republicans want more rules and regulations restricting their access to information? Especially freedom loving tea baggers?
Republicans are the party of the rich but they know that if they lose their lower middle class base they're toast.
Restrict the internet and let's see how many tea baggers say "Wow! This is Great!!"
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Paying the carriers to slow down competitor's traffic.
easychoice
(1,043 posts)You know you have a winner...
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Someone else should suggest the next step.
Cha
(297,275 posts)EarlG!
Number23
(24,544 posts)"questioning" and just full of endless concern about this issue but at this point, it is clear that nothing will ever assuage their deep and prevailing belief that this president is horrible and always out to get them. No wonder nobody's even bothering to engage them anymore.
Cha
(297,275 posts)The White House ✔ @WhiteHouse
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I'm urging the @FCC to keep the internet open and free. Here's my plan to protect #NetNeutrality for everyone: http://go.wh.gov/net-neutrality bo
4:20 AM - 10 Nov 2014 3,034 Retweets 1,374 favorites
A Free And Open Internet. Thanks, President Obama
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/10/a-free-and-open-internet-thanks-president-obama/
japple
(9,828 posts)japple
(9,828 posts)any of the good things he has accomplished, at least support him on this one. If you can't do this, then just chalk up one on your tally sheet for "one unhinged ignoramous who doesn't give a shit that s/he's going down the tubes."
Cha
(297,275 posts)Andy823
(11,495 posts)Sadly I do believe there are a lot of those unhinged ignoramous who don't give a shit around here when it comes to admitting the president has done a lot of good things since he was elected.
polynomial
(750 posts)Or the idea of neutrality in the Internet is when the citizen can own a fixed plant or mobile traveling communications that connects all the major government agencies that were produced by tax dollars. It is said the military created the Internet; there it should be self-evident that we the people own it.
Exampled by all the sophisticated electronics that have been developed over the decades through government military grants, through the university systems, especially funding for secret projects that have been declassified into the public domain and exploited by the so called free market, the advantaged one percent.
From my view the American public does not have Internet Neutrality. President Obama knows we dont. We the people need our own war on this so called Conservatism Tea Party extremist of today that wants to shape the electorate for selfish needs rather than perusing an advanced society.
It could change for the better. We could start out with a fully digitized library of easily accessed HR Bills passed and failed in Congress. Especially legislation that could have highlighted portions that have been specifically built by our representatives, or HR Bills specifically uncovered to be written by lobbyist.
That said to get rid of this paradigm double standard in our culture that citizens cant lie but politicians, with corporate and mainstream media complicity bloviate, postulate, deride, deceive, and ridicule at their discretion with arrogance defiance, retaliation, and prevent what is needed from happening.
These one percent people are using and exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum especially through political commercialism appears evil. Simple and basic service to the electorate, and non- electorate alike is dysfunctional deficient and immoral to extremes where we will destroy ourselves, or did Bin Laden Win? I hope not
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)Now he strongly supports an open internet (after appointing anti-net neutrality Wheeler to head the FCC). If he keeps this up with this extreme populist rhetoric he may replace Ghandi someday.
jjewell
(618 posts)...what I was about to post.
I guess "Strongly Supporting" and "ensuring implementation" are two different things...