In 2015, Obama imposed heavy-handed, utility-style regulation on Internet service providers. Since then, investment has fallen. New services have been delayed or scuttled by a regulatory environment that stifles innovation. The Declaratory Ruling, Report and Order would return to Clinton era, bipartisan consensus on light regulation, ending utility-style regulation of the Internet.
UPDATE: While all eyes are focused on broadband providers, the chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai is drawing attention to the role of the tech giants when it comes to censoring the Internet. In his speech on Net Neutrality reform, he called them out for their long track record of censoring conservative viewpoints.
Pai specifically called out a number of big tech companies, including Twitter, for opposing Net Neutrality reform on the grounds that it threatens a “free and open internet,” while engaging in widespread censorship on their own platforms. (...) Pai also called attention to Twitter’s “double standard when it comes to suspending or de-verifying conservative users’ accounts as opposed to those of liberal users,” stating that Twitter is “not an outlier,” the FCC chairman also drew attention to YouTube’s decision to censor videos from conservative commentator Dennis Prager. Prager is currently suing Google and YouTube over their decision to censor his videos. (...) Pai concluded by declaring web companies to be “a much bigger actual threat to an open Internet than broadband providers, especially when it comes to discrimination on the basis of viewpoint.” (More)
Nov. 23, 2017
It is a mystery why right wing, often Libertarian leaning activists would suddenly look for heavy handed, utility style, state regulation of the Internet. While it is certainly true that The Big Tech Corporations are globalist entities exploiting liberty for the own nefarious interests, high Government regulation would be like throwing out the baby with the bath water. Is collectivist, utility regulation really the best the right wing can come up with? In the meantime Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC is presenting a plan that returns the Internet to Clinton era, light regulation.
Over twenty years ago, President Clinton and a Republican Congress established the policy of the United States “to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet . . . unfettered by Federal or State regulation.” For decades, Commission policies encouraged broadband deployment and the development of the Internet. That ended two years ago. In 2015, the Commission imposed heavy-handed, utility-style regulation on Internet service providers (ISPs). Since then, broadband investment has fallen for two years in a row—the first time that that’s happened outside a recession in the Internet era. And new services have been delayed or scuttled by a regulatory environment that stifles innovation. This Declaratory Ruling, Report and Order, and Order would return to the bipartisan consensus on lighttouch regulation, ending utility-style regulation of the Internet. This will promote future innovation and investment. And more investment in digital infrastructure will create jobs, increase competition, and lead to better, faster, cheaper Internet access for all Americans, especially those in rural and low-income areas.
US regulator says Silicon Valley is threat to internethttps://t.co/OKJO8HZz6n— ☆ Ƙαѕѕαη∂яα 🎄 (@KassandraTroy) November 28, 2017
UPDATE: While all eyes are focused on broadband providers, the chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai is drawing attention to the role of the tech giants when it comes to censoring the Internet. In his speech on Net Neutrality reform, he called them out for their long track record of censoring conservative viewpoints.
Pai specifically called out a number of big tech companies, including Twitter, for opposing Net Neutrality reform on the grounds that it threatens a “free and open internet,” while engaging in widespread censorship on their own platforms. (...) Pai also called attention to Twitter’s “double standard when it comes to suspending or de-verifying conservative users’ accounts as opposed to those of liberal users,” stating that Twitter is “not an outlier,” the FCC chairman also drew attention to YouTube’s decision to censor videos from conservative commentator Dennis Prager. Prager is currently suing Google and YouTube over their decision to censor his videos. (...) Pai concluded by declaring web companies to be “a much bigger actual threat to an open Internet than broadband providers, especially when it comes to discrimination on the basis of viewpoint.” (More)
Suddenly it's OK for progressives, acting in Big Data's interests, to harass family members of a government official for picking a policy they don't like. https://t.co/OpdH2yhN4L— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) November 28, 2017
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's family harassed over proposed net neutrality rollback https://t.co/Jf2eoT6t0d pic.twitter.com/GeZgOdmnds— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 28, 2017
SICK! Far Left Activists Tell FCC Chairman's Children Their Father is Evil and a Murderer https://t.co/9wphzEVoqV— Netizen Kane (@NetizenKane) November 27, 2017
Nov. 23, 2017
FCC PLAN ENDS OBAMA HEAVY INTERNET REGULATION
Here's my plan to repeal the Obama Administration's heavy-handed regulation of the Internet. This time--unlike in 2015--you can read it before the @FCC votes. https://t.co/xcPDkxPgW7 https://t.co/wnshqlJoMa pic.twitter.com/wACDCspuEP— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) November 22, 2017
It is a mystery why right wing, often Libertarian leaning activists would suddenly look for heavy handed, utility style, state regulation of the Internet. While it is certainly true that The Big Tech Corporations are globalist entities exploiting liberty for the own nefarious interests, high Government regulation would be like throwing out the baby with the bath water. Is collectivist, utility regulation really the best the right wing can come up with? In the meantime Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC is presenting a plan that returns the Internet to Clinton era, light regulation.
Over twenty years ago, President Clinton and a Republican Congress established the policy of the United States “to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet . . . unfettered by Federal or State regulation.” For decades, Commission policies encouraged broadband deployment and the development of the Internet. That ended two years ago. In 2015, the Commission imposed heavy-handed, utility-style regulation on Internet service providers (ISPs). Since then, broadband investment has fallen for two years in a row—the first time that that’s happened outside a recession in the Internet era. And new services have been delayed or scuttled by a regulatory environment that stifles innovation. This Declaratory Ruling, Report and Order, and Order would return to the bipartisan consensus on lighttouch regulation, ending utility-style regulation of the Internet. This will promote future innovation and investment. And more investment in digital infrastructure will create jobs, increase competition, and lead to better, faster, cheaper Internet access for all Americans, especially those in rural and low-income areas.
.@AjitPaiFCC to @trish_regan on net neutrality: "Do you want [the internet] to be governed by engineers and entrepreneurs or do you want it to be run by bureaucrats and lawyers here in Washington?" pic.twitter.com/yVsD3ojnxm
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) November 22, 2017
.@AjitPaiFCC to @trish_regan: "For me, at least, the hope is that if the FCC does it's job and modernizes these regulations... that all kinds of media companies will have a better chance to compete." pic.twitter.com/6n2t2rvi7g— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) November 22, 2017
The FCC is siding with big corporations by releasing a plan to claw back #NetNeutrality rules. They were hoping you wouldn’t notice. We must fight back to defend a free and open internet.— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) November 21, 2017
This is inaccurate. @AjitPaiFCC is fighting to restore #internetfreedom and repeal the Obama administration’s @FCC regulations which kept small businesses/internet providers from thriving. https://t.co/zC51h0Uck1— ACU (@ACUConservative) November 21, 2017
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