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White House Responds to Net Neutrality Petition

posted by Dopefish on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the hopefully-not-paying-lip-service dept.

Fluffeh writes:

"When the D.C. U.S. Court of Appeals struck down the FCC's Open Internet Rules, a White House Petition was put up to 'direct the FCC to classify ISPs as "common carriers"'. With over 100k signatures, there is now an official response.

Absent net neutrality, the Internet could turn into a high-priced private toll road that would be inaccessible to the next generation of visionaries. The resulting decline in the development of advanced online apps and services would dampen demand for broadband and ultimately discourage investment in broadband infrastructure. An open Internet removes barriers to investment worldwide.

The petition asked that the President direct the FCC to reclassify Internet service providers as "common carriers" which, if upheld, would give the FCC a distinct set of regulatory tools to promote net neutrality. The FCC is an independent agency. Chairman Wheeler has publicly pledged to use the full authority granted by Congress to maintain a robust, free and open Internet a principle that this White House vigorously supports."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by ganjadude on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:43PM

    by ganjadude (1844) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:43PM (#2485)

    Disheartening, but not unexpected. Every time the people ask for something we got a non answer. Everytime the corporations ask for something, they get a waiver. Senator obama would smack the crap out of president obama if they ever were able to meet face to face

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by SMI on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:56PM

    by SMI (333) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:56PM (#2496)

    Reminds me of a cartoon [truthdig.com] from some time ago.

    At least they bothered to respond to this particular petition that exceeded 100,000, I suppose...

  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Muad'Dave on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:22PM

    by Muad'Dave (1413) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:22PM (#2515)

    I think Senator Obama would high-five President Obama for how completely he was able to hoodwink a whole country. They're both cut from the same sleazy Chicagoland political cloth, after all.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:47PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:47PM (#2839) Journal

    I think you weren't paying attention to Senator Obama. He was on the FISA committee, and he found its actions good.

    I wasn't really very much surprised by Pres. Obama. He's not a bad as I was afraid he might be, and probably has been better than McCain would have been...certainly better than Palin. This is known as faint praise.

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