I’ve talked quite a bit how net neutrality is a big scam, and how it’s just a ruse to censor the Internet according to the desires of neo-Marxists like those at Free Press.
But there’s another, more basic reason, to join the majority of the House (including 171 Republicans) in opposing the runaway FCC: People are happy with their ISPs, both landline and wireless. The FCC itself says so:
Fully 91 percent of broadband users say they are “very” or “somewhat” satisfied with the speed they get at home. The comparable number for mobile broadband, which is not yet technologically capable of the same speeds as home broadband, is 71 percent satisfaction. As a point of comparison, 92 percent of cell phone users are very or somewhat satisfied with their cell phone service overall.
We don’t need new regulations, and especially not Net Neutrality regulations, when over 9 out of 10 people are happy with their high speed landline Internet access. Period.
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Ron Robinson (Diary) Friday, June 4th at 2:02AM EST (link)They see what we are doing – they will know they need to regulate the internet and FAST.
We just got Cumberland County, TN voter data online with PROCINCT
Imagine the regulatory head that will explode at the FEC, the FCC and other places. Maybe the EPA will get involved because we are ‘polluting’ the internets with voter activism..
I’m also looking forward to watching MSM heads and big-party heads explode when folks start being neighborly with their precinct captains…. and vote that way.
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We'd be much further along in access today
Adjoran (Diary) Friday, June 4th at 5:20AM EST (link)if the Feds had just stayed out of the market. In the name of “competition,” they enacted laws forcing anyone building or upgrading broadband capacity to make it available to competitors at a rate which considered operating costs only, not the capital investment. IOW, I spend my money, take on debt, do all the work of building the new system, and then all my competitors get to use it for the same cost I do, except I am left with all the costs and debt to bear.
No wonder we aren’t universal and cheap yet!
Naturally, the Left’s “solution” to the destructive effects of government interference in the market is MORE government interference in the market.
Bureaucrats will also help make sure everything online is “fair.” What could possibly go wrong?
remember healthcare
astrojohn8 Friday, June 4th at 8:24AM EST (link)The same percentage liked their healthcare, too…didn’t seem to matter much, did it?
My thoughts exactly
suzyq Friday, June 4th at 8:58AM EST (link)It doesn’t matter what we think or want. It’s all a great big power grab and very scary.
my fight song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqKVXu4Gxyk
Right on Neil, keep it up
momac Friday, June 4th at 1:48PM EST (link)You’d think that regulation is at least ostensibly to address a problem. But in this case the general sale has been “if you want your Internet to stay the same, then we need net neutrality.” Instead of “of you want to stay the same, just stay the same.” They can’t even point to real problems that it would address, just future potential scares.
Makes me want to tear my hair out. Keep up the good work.