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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: -1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Tuesday March 03 2015, @08:20AM
The day the net was nationalized I posted here that it was a dark day. That and the two followup posts were both modded flamebait. Care to get any action on the bet that when the three hundred some odd pages of rules that I knew about then, but you idiots said I was a nutcase for talking about... but I notice from the article here nobody outside of the FCC, Google and a few select folk, still haven't seen the light of day.. anyway, when they finally come out there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth here? Anybody want to bet against that? Or that I'll be gloating with lots of "I TOLD YOU SO!"
If it was a good thing they would be bragging and proudly publishing the new rules. Anything the government does tends to be bad, anything trying to regulate things like tech that they are more clueless than usual about doubly so. And pretty much everything with Obama's stench on it triple bad. This is going to be BAD. Courts have whacked other attempts, maybe they will save the day again, certainly ain't expecting the hapless Republicans in Congress to do anything useful at this point.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2015, @08:34AM
That's not what happened.
It was sunny here. If you're being metaphorical, you were very most likely wrong.
You're an idiot and a nutcase because there were links all over the net explaining that there were single-digit pages of actual legislation and the rest was to have been background info and justification. If you didn't know about those then you were intentionally misinformed / uninformed; likely to suit your political biases.
Anything anyone or anything does tends to be bad. "90% of _x_ is crap" is fairly true. Not sure why you single out government. Oh, right - once again, your juvenile political bias.
Yep, my previous statement confirmed, and I don't even care for everything Obama's done by a long shot.
I'm not even American and I'm aware that the document will be posted to the Federal Register (or something similarly named) and that this is standard procedure. You're one hell of a dumb fuck to not know this yourself since you pretend to be so informed on the topic.
(Score: 5, Informative) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Tuesday March 03 2015, @08:35AM
I'll gladly bet against everything you just said.
You sound just like my old man after he has an extended session of listening to the fear-mongering and hate-spreading on FOX News, which is his primary hobby.
There's no conspiracy here. Actually, there's not even any content in TFS whatsoever besides some random anti-Title II drivel. It didn't scare me; don't let it scare you.
For now, the "Obamanet" crowd are just having a temper tantrum for the sake of having a temper tantrum, and there has been zero evidence [b]whatsoever[/b] that [b]any[/b] of their claims are substantiated. For now, this entire campaign against Title II is based solely on conjecture, lies, and a desire to enforce the sentiment that "the Government is taking over the Internet," hence the idea to reaffirm it through re-branding the Title II decision as "Obamanet" in the first place.
I don't like the Government any more than you, but my distaste for them is rooted firmly in facts, not conspiracy.
(Score: 3, Touché) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 03 2015, @08:38AM
You're absolutely right. This is the end of Western Civilization as we know it. Before long, jackbooted thugs from the FCC will be sitting on your couch making you watch "Dancing With The Stars" and live blogging it under penalty of death.
We will all be required to submit for approval lists of web sites we wish to visit that aren't on the FCC's list of "appropriate" sites. All network connections will have built-in monitoring/censoring devices and all fixtures which use electricity will be fitted with microphones and cameras to make sure we're following all those rules in that 300+ page document.
What's more, the FCC is going to start implanting V-chips in our brains, censoring not just the Internet, but the real world too. No more checking out your neighbor's daughter sunbathing in the back yard. No more reading the headlines on the newspaper at the convenience store while waiting to purchase your Ho-Hos -- You read it, you buy it!
We're all completely in shock jmorris. You were right and we were wrong. Can you ever forgive us for not listening to you?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1) by Pr. L Muishkin on Tuesday March 03 2015, @01:45PM
I'll take that bet, but if you do somehow win, (which I seriously doubt,) you'll have to trave to Scotland to collect. Those are my terms and I will not budge.
(Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Tuesday March 03 2015, @02:56PM
I don't think you know what nationalized means.
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