Friday, March 11, 2011

Congressional panel votes to repeal Internet regulations

The internet does NOT need regulating
"A Republican-controlled Congressional panel has voted to repeal new Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibit phone and cable companies from interfering with Internet traffic on their broadband networks. The House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology voted 15-to-8 along party lines Wednesday to overturn the FCC's new 'network neutrality' regulations."

Source

6 comments:

We The People said...

According to the Marxist-in-Chief and his anti-American administration, "everything" requires government regulation. Can you think of a better way to gain complete control over the everyday lives of the people? If you can, they'd love to hear from you.

Anonymous said...

And he is the arbiter of what is constitutional or not, too (DOMA?)

Anonymous said...

Obama's a tyrant, he has the power to grant or deny deep drilling permits, he gave Libya $15 million in humanitarian aid without our permission, I can't wait for 2012, and America better get it right this time. NO MORE MARXISTS!


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http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-defense-of-muslim-hearings.html

Person! said...

The original article mentions that the FCC's regulation would "prohibit broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against Internet content and services." Wouldn't this regulation, based on this reading, in effect actually prevent providers from doing something like blocking web sites and newsgroups that provide child pornography? I mean, they would be "discriminating" against that "Internet content," wouldn't they? Or is an exception for something like this built into the regulations?

Dean said...

Person: IIRC there were a couple exceptions in the regulations. Verizon and Google(? I think) would have been able to provide different levels of access to given websites depending on the level of dollars given them.

At least, that's what I recall of the article from a while back.

Spurwing Plover said...

If thre had been a internet during WW II im sure STALIN and HITLER would be monitoring it 24/7 just like OBAMA and the evil UN wants to do