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The story of net neutrality as an Obama-led takeover of the Internet has been a key Republican talking point for months, a talking point which has been refuted by internal FCC documents obtained by Motherboard using a Freedom of Information Act request. These findings were made by the independent, nonpartisan FCC Office of Inspector General an Inspector General. However, the findings were not made public prior to Thursday’s vote.
[...] First, some background: The FCC is an independent regulatory agency that is supposed to remain “free from undue influence” by the executive branch—it is not beholden to the White House, only the laws that Congress makes and tells it to regulate. This means the president cannot direct it to implement policies. In November 2014, President Obama released a statement saying that he believed the FCC should create rules protecting net neutrality, but noted that “ultimately this decision is theirs alone.”
[...] Since 2014, Republicans have pointed to net neutrality as an idea primarily promoted by President Obama, and have made it another in a long line of regulations and laws that they have sought to repeal now that Donald Trump is president. Prior to this false narrative, though, net neutrality was a bipartisan issue; the first net neutrality rules were put in place under President George W. Bush, and many Republicans worked on the 2015 rules that were just dismantled.
What happened, then, is that Republicans sold the public a narrative that wasn’t true, then used that narrative to repeal the regulations that protect the internet.
Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @10:05PM (6 children)
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the /republican/ government :) democrats could as well say now "vote
for us because we are not sociopathic freaks; we are pretty lousy at
our job, but at least most of us are well-intentioned. the opposition
party champions sociopaths who advocate bringing back american-style
slavery and rescinding the nonman's right to vote. vote democrat: not
completely bat-shit insane xoxoxoxo" seriously though, what is going
to happen to the republican party in 4 years time?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday December 19 2017, @10:22PM (3 children)
> seriously though, what is going to happen to the republican party in 4 years time?
They're going to win some elections, and lose some. As usual.
The sheer insanity of the party hasn't hit a lot of their voters, and probably never will. In other countries, that's when the moderates would give the win to a different party appealing to their conservative views, without the (most-recent) batshit baggage. Ain't happening here. Look at the support, and very narrow defeat, Republican Roy Moore got.
Fox News and other right-wing screamers, the War on Truth, the War on Reality, really, Gerrymandering, one-issue voters, one-round two-party elections, the inability of the D side to point out in simple words why simple words slogans are terrible policy... The R side ain't dead, far from it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @10:32PM
No, only the USoA are. They just don't know it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @03:07AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @01:26PM
demographics? yeah, nothing to do with lurching off the right-wing cliff
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @12:46PM (1 child)
If the Democrats continue to blame everyone but themselves for losing the last election, and refusing to admit that having the worst candidate (out of two shitty ones), and running a campaign that was basically "it's her turn to win" while refusing to even talk to anyone that wasn't a guaranteed D voter is what caused them to lose, the republican party will be celebrating another 4 years of Donald the Orange.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2017, @01:29PM
Donny Orange will go to prison but it could be Pence the Virtuous? Not sure if he could win an election though... I doubt he even grabs his own pussy.