[ April 15, 2024 ]
There was nothing neutral about net neutrality. Of course the left names the thing the very opposite of what it is.
‘Net Neutrality’ Is Socialism, Not Freedom
Here is what I posted back in 2015 at Flashback Geller Report when the Obama administration was moving to impose “Net Neutrality”:
Story continues below advertisementHere are 7 reasons why the FCC’s new net neutrality rules could be a threat to your freedom.
1. The FCC’s new rules are a heavy-handed government takeover of the Internet.
Under the new rules, broadband Internet is classified as a public utility for the first time ever. This gives the government wide control of private companies like Comcast, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable, reducing their incentives to invest in their respective networks. Without this investment, broadband technology will develop more slowly, and prices will be higher for consumers.
2. Net neutrality subsidizes large companies like Netflix and Facebook who don’t need it.
In November, it was widely reported that Netflix alone accounts for over 35 percent of all Internet traffic in the US. If broadband providers were able to charge Netflix a small fee for the high volume of data they send, they could pass that money onto consumers in the form of lower monthly bills.
3. The new rules subvert democracy and the will of the people.
CBS News reported that two in three Americans are opposed to the idea of government regulating the Internet. Other polls show that opposition to net neutrality is even higher.
4. The new regulations will stifle free speech.
Lee E. Goodman, former chairman and a current commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, told Newsmax TV that a government takeover of the Internet will chill political speech.
“The government will regulate the content — and specifically the political content — that the American people can both post online to express their own political opinions, and the political content and information that people can access from the Internet,” said Goodman, who was appointed to the FEC in 2013 by President Obama.
5. The rule-making process was corrupted by the White House.
President Obama and White House staffers used backchannel meetings to pressure chairman Wheeler into creating the strongest possible net neutrality rules over the more moderate approach he originally intended. In this way, the White House operated “like a parallel version of the FCC itself,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
6. The [2015] commission’s vote wasn’t transparent.
The new set of rules ushered in by Thursday’s 3-2 vote were not provided to the public for comment. Ahead of the vote, one of the agency’s five commissioners, Ajit Pai, tweeted a picture of the 317-page plan that he was barred from showing the public. Even after the vote, the rules will not be published publicly for many days.
7. The new rules will hurt the right to privacy, and further empower the federal government to spy on its citizens.
After Edward Snowden leaked the NSA’s secret PRISM surveillance program in 2013, it became clear that the federal government is interested in snooping around in the private affairs of its citizens. Now that the federal government controls the web, its ability to spy will only increase.
FCC Votes to End Net Neutrality Regulations
Republicans cheer the end of “heavy-handed regulation” while Democrats decry a “corporate-enabling Destroying Internet Freedom Order.”
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 along party lines Thursday to reverse the Obama-era internet regulations known as “net neutrality,” arguing over dire Democratic warnings that the change would help consumers and promote competition among internet providers.
Under net neutrality, which the FCC first implemented in 2015, internet service providers were prohibited from charging websites different prices for different access speeds, and classified the internet as a utility, like phone services or water, to justify the FCC’s authority in implementing the changes.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Thursday characterized the 2015 changes as a solution to a phantom problem—ISPs blocking access to certain websites—and charged them with slowing the growth of internet companies.
“The internet wasn’t broken in 2015. We were not living in some digital dystopia,” Pai said. “The main problem consumers have with the internet is not, and never has been, that their internet provider is blocking access to content. It’s been that they don’t have access at all.”
Both Democratic commissioners who voted against the change painted a dark picture of ISPs silencing political rivals and extorting small and startup websites. Commissioner Mignon Clyburn released a breathless dissenting statement, calling the change a “fiercely spun, legally lightweight, consumer-harming, corporate-enabling Destroying Internet Freedom Order.”
“The results of throwing out your net neutrality protections may not be felt right away,” she wrote. “But what we have wrought will one day be apparent, and by then, when you really see what has changed, I fear it may be too late to do anything about it, because there will be no agency empowered to address your concerns.”
Meanwhile, Republican commissioner Brendan Carr waved off what he called “apocalyptic” warnings.
“I’m proud to end this two-year experiment with heavy-handed regulation,” he said.
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51 Comments
D
6 years ago
Thanks, I know nothing about this issue, but I will trust Pamela’s judgement 🙂
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
The article looks well written and researched, so now we can call ourselves informed. Or at least as much as is currently possible.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Killing net neutrality won’t get us the FREEDOM we need
When net key infrastructure corporations can kill any website they want – like what they did to “Daily Stormer” – then THERE IS NO FREEDOM ON THE NET
Until the day no one is allowed to have the power to kill any website (and/or shut down any online speech), THERE IS NO NET FREEDOM
I don’t go to daily stormer, I find them repulsive
But that does not mean I do not care for their right to say whatever ‘silly/racist/stupid’ thing they want to say
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
This net neutrality law was well intended but was misused by left/liberal as usual .
There was talk of broadband providers deciding which website they allow and at what speed it can be accessed by enduser.
So they would allow facebook , netflix , amazon etc faster access only if they pay. And others who don’t pay become 10 times slower to access that includes pamelageller website you are reading now.
So FCC decided to stop this toll tax that benefited only websites that can pay whatever fancy price broadband providers decide to charge.
But obama/ Dems used it to spy on private citizens data that is where they misused it.
But the battle is not over for public.
GOOGLE to target criticism of Islam in new anti-First Amendment censorship purge
http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
As long as these powerful internet companies try to purge conservatives voices you cannot claim internet is fully free and neutral.
But websites / SM accounts used to propagate jihadi hate, instigating crimes should be shut down not those who criticise these jihadis and their collaborators like its happening since the last 8 years.
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Right, it looked good on paper just like Communisum does for the liberals/democrats until they actually put it in motion like Argentina has found out, it just doesn’t work like the paper said it would. Communisum works in reverse to it’s doctrine. It tricks one just like the democrates.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
There’s been so much FUD spread who knows what the truth about Net Neutrality was? All I know is if the Dem0rats are for it, I’m against it.
6 years ago
Even so-called conservative papers are bemoaning the end of net neutrality – the independent media knew full well what was at stake.
Now if Trump can get Fakebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube regulated, since they’re virtually monopolies that censor conservative viewpoints – the internet, at least in America, will be mostly free again.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jackie Puppet
We Are Change, with Luke Ridouski, said the problem is that FB and others have gotten money from the government to subsidize them and that gave up control of their company to the evil overlords, thus they will never be able to be neutral.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jackie Puppet
Do you know how dangerous your suggest is?
>… Now if Trump can get Fakebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube regulated …
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If Trump can do that, some demoncraps in the future can slap ‘regulations’ to this and all other conservative sites
DO YOU WANT THAT ??
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
Excellent point, but look at what youtube, fascistbook and google are now? Are they not collaborating w/the forces of islum?
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Izlamis…..Please note my above earlier posting ….CB radio used primarily at one time by truckers, caught on with the general public when movies like Smokey and the Bandit became popular and Shortwave radio has been used for years from one remote location to another……neither of the systems were video equipped but they did have sound and they worked quite well,,,
6 years ago
Reply to
moose
CB has been largely replaced by cell phone service but Amateur Radio is alive and well. When really bad stuff happens, it is sometimes the only game in town. By the way, if you have an old tube set, keep it in good repair because they are EMP resistant.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
If the stuff keeps happening at those places, competition, such as Duck Duck Go and Ixquick will appear. I’ve noticed that sites that have both Face Book and Discus demonstrate a huge difference in activity between the two. Often, the Discus section will have about fifty comments before the first entry shows up in Face Book.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
Yeah, I know, wishful thinking, but it doesn’t change my belief the above mentioned should be regulated somehow, especially since they alone arbitrarily decide who gets to make money/a living off their sites – they’re more like a public utility than a business .
6 years ago
Reply to
Jackie Puppet
Before we had the Internet, we had short wave radio and then CB radio….both cost only a license fee to operate….(if memory serves me correctly) I used both systems years ago. FORKEM!!!! Let Uncle Sam do what he must, the public will always find a method to beat the government at their own game….I wonder if I still have my CB buried in the attic?
6 years ago
Reply to
moose
What we need to prosecute these firms for is any collusion with the GOVERNMENT !!!! The only time they should work with the GOVT. is when a crime has occurred, and not a thought crime ! PEOPLE SHOULD LOSE BILLIONS AND GO TO JAIL FOR COLLUDING WITH oBAMA AND HILLARY !!!!
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Jackie Puppet
The internet was popular from at least 1995 to 2015 before NN rules were inacted. 20 years without it with no issues. Kind of puts it in perspective doesn’t it?
6 years ago
The internet must never be owned by any partisan group. It must remain an impartial resource available to everyone, every where.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Everything will eventually be ‘owned’, somehow
From seas to forests to minerals deep beneath, have all been owned
There are only two things that are still free today — haven’t been owned yet — are the rays of Sunshine beamed down from above, and the Oxygen in the air we breathe
In the future, who knows?
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
Here, in the middle of the boreal forest, a lot of people think they “own” part of it, if they turn their backs on it for a while, it does what it will, as nature can only be enslaved for a while, it will return to the freedom it was created from.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I’ve a neighbor in Norwalk, a single mom of two, who works as a waitress at a local gastropub, 2 days back bought a brand new Freightliner Sprinter 3500XD Cargo, and what’s even more interesting is that she did it by working online, for about 90 mins a day, just applying some guidelines they showed there. When I asked what exactly she was doing, she shared me this source
6 years ago
Reply to
Reddkliff11
Well I have a neighbour in Dorksvillw who works as a “hostess” at a local massage parlour. Two days ago she bought a brand new bottle of penicillin to cure the syphilis that she got by working just 90 minuets a day.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
I considered in 1981 after a fact finding tour of the USA where I was evicted from the UN and camped a week outside Reagan’s WH that the world won’t go solar until EXXON figure out a way to own the sun.
God….they don’t own God. That is why they are trying to kill him off
6 years ago
Reply to
michaelofsydney
You are on the nailhead, Michael, but they couldn’t kill Him so now they are at the flood of lies stage and doing their best to stop us talking about Him. (Psst, Y’Shua is LORD) But here is a tip, Barry Soetoro is not god except in his own mind! The UN is a sham, a dodge, a decoy to mask what is actually happening, fortunately you were kicked out, or you might have ended in the Lake of Fire with Barry and friends. JR
6 years ago
Reply to
JR Richmond
Oh I also came away with the view that the UN supports the advent of anti Christ. I’m no prophet but then again you wouldn’t have to be Einstein to have figured it out.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
the impending Global debt infrastructure for the taxation of CO2 will put paid to any notion of ‘free air’, not any more, sunshine!
Speaking of sunshine, you need to own or have access to the land upon which the sun shines in order to reap the benefit of its energy, whether that be crops or thermo/photo-electric power.
It’s all falling into private hands – the code word for that is Globalisation… and to ensure there never can be coordinated political push back, multi-culturalism will render all societies into a fragmented, paranoid, heap of mutually antagonistic shards – Coudenhove Kalergi Plan
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
Mom used to say that soon they government would even tax the air we breathe…..not far off now. They tax everything else…..multiple times.
6 years ago
Big companies and big governments are equal in censoring, especially the truth about Islam. I cannot choose a side in this argument when both sides are bad.
6 years ago
The proof, as they say, is in the pudding……JM
6 years ago
There is nothing Neutral aboput Net Neutrality.
6 years ago
The term “net neutrality” is classic Orwellian double speak. It has absolutely nothing to do with neutrality on the internet and everything to do with government asserting control over the internet. The government is rarely neutral when it asserts control of anything.
6 years ago
I remember first hearing about this net neutrality stuff and I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it but what told me more about it than anything is when I saw a lot of leftist come out in support of it, I knew then whatever it was it couldn’t be good. Glad they voted to end it.
6 years ago
… as the name antifa(scist) for their new SS in town
6 years ago
The only thing government regulation can do for any business…
Is force them to raise prices to pay for government regulators. .
6 years ago
It really is only the leftist traitors that wanted that regulation. Now, we can get back on track to streaming on demand and competition.
6 years ago
And we’re not really all that freed. Despite the FCC’s vote, the far Left is already working to undo and nullify it, via the likes of Democrat-Socialist Attorneys General such as Eric Schneiderman and microphone-chasing Senator Chuck Schumer and their little rent-a-mob rabble. And they are especially emboldened now that they have crushed Roy Moore in his bid to become Alabama Senator – and are using the “#Metoo” movement to destroy any and all conservative, pro-American, anti-globalist insurgents. Speaking of the Alabama special Senate race, the REAL winner is sleaze merchant and smut peddler Larry Flynt, who has a history of paying big bucks to take down anybody who has an “R” next to their name, and especially if they’re conservative, patriotic, pro-military, pro-life, pro-family and Christian. And mark my words, Flynt’s dirty fingerprints are as much over the takedown of Moore as those of Jeff Bezos, the far-left media propaganda machine, the RINO establishment, Sidney Blumenthal, George Soros, Fusion GPS, and anti-male radical feminazis. #StopLarryFlyntNow
6 years ago
Common Purpose.
World Government.
Leading beyond Authority.
The people don’t know what they’re voting for / understand the complex issues.
Power is like Tax revenue, no government has enough of either.
6 years ago
Didn’t Obie tell us that he SOLD the internet to some other place or party? Was that another Obie lie? The Libs talk about Obie’s 8 lies in 8 years, more like 8 lies a day!!
D
6 years ago
Reply to
freepetta
You’re talking about handing ICANN over to the UN. This is the same bunch of thugs that are trying to shut down our Bill of Rights starting with the Second Amendment with Obama helping them along. Now, what if it was President Hag Fish in the White House? Say goodbye to the First Amendment, too.
6 years ago
Reply to
JeromefromLayton
That’s the other thing. To what extent has Obama’s handing over ICANN to “One World” foreign bodies played a role in Facebook, Twitter etc., not only being Sharia-compliant but also compliant to subversive, anti-family, anti-morality Greenwich Village/San Francisco/Fire Island “values” (think the “activist mommy” who spoke out against the openly gay digital editor of Teen Vogue effectively contributing to the delinquency of minors by encouraging them to essentially commit sodomy, and was “demonetized” in retaliation)?
6 years ago
When I saw that it was the Nerogro’s sodomite imposed net neteurality, I said, wait a minute. This must be a good think to vote against it.
For anything the sodomite was for, we have to be against. Not only was the sodomite ILLEGAL to be up there but the Negro was a white hater – code word for envy of white man and his inventions which Negroes and women cannot invent or build.
Now, women have an excuse because you don’t want them carrying 50lb loads of roofing and building material up a 20 foot ladder 9 months pregnant and I don’t expect them to develop new braking system on an F-22, but the Negro does not seem capable of either.
Why, I dunno why. But maybe his low IQ has something to do with it.
6 years ago
When “Net Neutrality” was first mentioned a few years ago, I recognized the threat in about 750ms. (Reaction time)
Any time you give a agency such as the FCC the power to tell a company what they MUST provide, you also give that same agency the power to tell those companies what they CAN’T provide. If you think that is paranoid, look up Operation Choke Point that ran under the control of the FDIC which is similar to the actions of Google, You Tube, and other services that deny access to people they don’t like.
6 years ago
Reply to
JeromefromLayton
Libertarians used to say government should keep out of the business of abortion because, as they put it, a government that one minute could outlaw abortion, in the next could turn around and force women to have abortions a la China. Under Obama, we came perilously close to the latter. Not to mention putting a gun to the heads of people who value life, to force them to subsidize legally sanctioned murder. What you mentioned about the power the FCC was handed in regard to this issue, reminded me of those other words.
