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from the it-takes-300-pages-to-redefine-neutrality dept.
The bloom may have already fallen off the Net Neutrality rose. As reported yesterday in the Wall Street Journal (paywalled):
When Google's Eric Schmidt called White House officials a few weeks ago to oppose President Obama's demand that the Internet be regulated as a utility, they told him to buzz off. The chairman of the company that led lobbying for "net neutrality" learned the Obama plan made in its name instead micromanages the Internet.
Mr. Schmidt is not the only liberal mugged by the reality of Obamanet, approved on party lines last week by the Federal Communications Commission. The 300-plus pages of regulations remain secret, but as details leak out, liberals have joined the opposition to ending the Internet as we know it.
It seems as though, in their zeal to "stick it" to the ISPs, most proponents didn't consider that when you allow 3 unelected people to issue rulings on something as large and ubiquitous as the Internet, bad things can happen:
Until Congress or the courts block Obamanet, expect less innovation. During a TechFreedom conference last week, dissenting FCC commissioner Ajit Pai asked: "If you were an entrepreneur trying to make a splash in a marketplace that's already competitive, how are you going to differentiate yourself if you have to build into your equation whether or not regulatory permission is going to be forthcoming from the FCC? According to this, permissionless innovation is a thing of the past."
The other dissenting Republican commissioner, Michael O'Rielly, warned: "When you see this document, it's worse than you imagine." The FCC has no estimate on when it will make the rules public.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2015, @07:09AM
TFS has no content whatsoever. All innuendo and zero substance. Fuck submitter and fuck n1.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Tuesday March 03 2015, @07:53AM
I beg to differ. TFS clearly establishes that since the FCC has reclassified the Internet, it should now be rebranded as "Obamanet".
I used to hate this type of thing, but now I think it's alright.
When people talk about something with a -gate suffix, an Obama- prefix, or they take a mundane thing and add "cyber" in front of it to make it sound more tech-oriented, I can be certain that there's an agenda involved. This doesn't just apply to Soylent; I mean, it's just a universal rule.
Now I know, with certainty, how to identify the wolves trying to spread fright and dismay. It makes ignoring them easier.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2015, @08:11AM
> TFS clearly establishes that since the FCC has reclassified the Internet, it should now be rebranded as "Obamanet".
If that sticks it would be fucking hilarious.
First the republicans tried to kill healthcare reform by calling it Obamacare, but the name was so catchy that Obama eventually embraced it and now everybody uses the term. If Obamanet becomes as popular the end result will be that long after Obama is out of office, his name will be all over two of the most important policy changes in recent history. By trying to use his name to vilify, they republicans are ultimately giving the guy way more credit than he deserves. His name isn't pulling the policies down, the policies are pulling his name up. They are making him into an idol.
(Score: 4, Funny) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 03 2015, @08:25AM
We don't want to piss off Al Gore, do we?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2015, @10:00AM
It will be even better if they decide that they loathe the 'Obamanet' so much that they will have nothing to do with it ever again. Ok, Wall Street Journal! Ok, Faux News! Ok, breitbart.com! You were right. The 'Obamanet' is a socialist plot concocted by that Muslim Kenyan in the Whitehouse. Booga booga! Run for your lives! Get off the internet before you catch Obama cooties! And there will be NO vaccine for this one; it will mean referral to the death panels for you if you should get the taint of 'Obamanet' all over you. Now don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2015, @08:31AM
CyberObamaNetGate?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2015, @03:20PM
Ooh! My turn! InformationSuperhighway... SamuraiSyberSquad?
I got nothin'.
(Score: 1) by Pr. L Muishkin on Tuesday March 03 2015, @03:53PM
Ooh ooh, are we trading oxymorons? How's about that old family favourite, Microsoft Works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2015, @05:18PM
FTFY
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @02:45AM
Shamalamadingdong!
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 03 2015, @02:31PM
Well, he is kinda hot but I don't think you're his type. He prefers mature and intelligent partners last I checked.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.