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FCC Blog - From Tom Wheeler

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Good News for Consumers, Innovators and Financial Markets

by: Tom Wheeler, FCC Chairman
February 26, 2015 - 12:05 PM

Thank you to the over four million Americans who participated in the Open Internet proceeding. Thanks to them, this decision on Internet openness was itself the most open proceeding in the history of the FCC.

As a result, the FCC today has taken an important step that should reassure consumers, innovators and the financial markets about the broadband future of our nation.

Consumers now know that lawful content will not be blocked or their service throttled. Today's action puts in place bright line rules to ban these practices outright.

Innovators now know they will have open access to consumers without worrying about pay-for-preference fast lanes. This, too, is a bright line rule to ban paid prioritization.

Financial markets now know that rate regulation, tariffing and forced unbundling – the old-style utility regulation – has been superseded by a modernized regulatory approach that has already been demonstrated to work. The rules under which the wireless industry invested $300 billion to build a vibrant and growing business are the pro-investment model for the rules we adopted today.

The future of the Internet does not reside in backward-looking regulation from another era. There are 48 sections of Title II of the Communications Act. The modern regulatory approach we adopted today cuts away 27 of those provisions (even more than were removed for mobile voice service) to establish the above-mentioned bright line regulations for issues that exist today, and to apply the well-known “just and reasonable” standard as the rule for Internet activity going forward.

The rationale for this modernization of Title II is simple: we want consumers and innovators to be protected, and we want ISPs to continue to have the economic incentive to build fast and competitive broadband networks. It is in the interest of consumers, innovators and Wall Street that nothing in today's Order alters the economic model for continued network expansion. The ISPs' consumer revenue streams tomorrow will be the same as they were yesterday. I believe this is why Sprint, T-Mobile, Frontier Communications, and Google Fiber, along with hundreds of smaller phone company ISPs have said they would continue to invest under the Commission's modern regulatory approach.

Today is a red letter day both for an Open Internet, and for a broadband future of investment and expansion.

Updated: February 26, 2015 - 01:28 PM

https://www.fcc.gov/blog/good-news-cons ... al-markets

My almighty bung-hole also speaks from time to time, but the content is about the same as Comrade FCC Kommissar's statement ... so I feel I am not obliged to I believe anything either says.

He did get one thing right: Today is a red letter day. However, he seems to think that is a Good Thing.

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[quote]...."I believe this is why Sprint, T-Mobile, Frontier Communications, and Google Fiber, along with hundreds of smaller phone company ISPs have said they would continue to invest under the Commission's modern regulatory approach....as long as they contribute to the party of choice..."

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Lev Termen wrote:My almighty bung-hole also speaks from time to time, but the content is about the same as Comrade FCC Kommissar's statement ... so I feel I am not obliged to I believe anything either says.

He did get one thing right: [highlight=#ffff00] Today is a red letter day[/highlight]. However, he seems to think that is a Good Thing.
Not sure exactly what a "red letter day" means, but it recalls to my mind the "red letter" edition of the Bible, the words of Christ being printed in red. Perhaps he was implying that his words, being from the Omnipotent Nanny-State are like the Word of the Lord Himself.

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It's a shame the final draft was so heavily modified 36 hours before being made available to the full commission for a vote. But, as Nanski Peloski once said, "We'll have to pass it to find out what's in it." I wish I was one of those FCC guys so I could find out what I voted on before anyone else! Oh, well... I'm sure of something - one more of Comrade Marx's 10 requirements for achieving the perfect State has just been accomplished. And, it was easier than I thought it would be! Yes, we are moving Forward, ever Forward... one small step at a time.

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It's a wonder the internet got along for 40 years without these regulations!

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Those "Red Letters" have to be delivered without envelopes, as the underpaid and exploited workers collective justified strikes at the docks on the left coast has resulted in shipping delay.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/busi ... .html?_r=0

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Kelly Ivanovna/келя ивановна wrote:It's a wonder the internet got along for 40 years without these regulations!

Komrade Kelly, here's how it works... our glorious government's central planning system must keep expanding its power and kontrol in order for the party to survive and prosper.

Since most of us on the kollective are not smart enough to realize the brilliance of what Komrade Glorious Leader and his central planning bureaucrats are doing in that regard, they must come up with solutions for problems that don't exist.

The process is much like that used by Professor Hill in the Musik Man. There is "trouble in River City," so to speak, and the solution is to buy musical instruments and marching band uniforms from Professor Hill. However, in this case, there is trouble on the internet and the solution is to buy into Net Neutrality to make things "fair" and keep us all "safe" from exploitation by evil capitalist ISPs.

So, River City got a marching band, and Amerika got government regulation of the internet. "Problem" solved, and everyone is happy and dancing in the streets... for now.

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I made the slogan based off of what was posted on the FCC's website:
"Once you're online, you don't have to ask permission or pay tolls to broadband providers to reach others on the network."

What else could we come up with? Anybody wanna give it a go?

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Putin on the Ritz wrote:An Important Safety and Well Being Message from the Ad Council.

"Please do not forget to Spay and Neuter your Internet"
Thank you, comrade, for the idea. The Visual Agitation Directorate has implemented it in this agitprop poster:

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Does this spaying work for enemies of the Party?

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Dear Comrades I have spent many months denouncing my American pig dog parents <double spit> and cursing their names for birthing me and purposefully not allowing me the privilege to be raised in manner as directed by the Kareful and Korrect manner as outlined by the Karl Marx Treatment Center.
Since I have been seen fit to be assigned to this collective to help sustain the standards given by our leaderless government fearless leaders. I have obtained my pardon from the hateful life I was raised in and have earned a pardon for my past thought, face and speak crimes, am now to be blessed to have my rations of beet vodka, my warm cloths and my shovel benevolently by the state.
Dear Comrades again I have received permission from our authorities to praise that we have and are moments away from the glorious future that is next Tuesday. From my single window in the very small torture and mind wiping chamber rehabilitation area, I was able to glimpse next Tuesday in its entire splendor.
The passing by the FCC as part of the USSA brings us closer to the promises of the administration and I rejoice in the protection that is now afforded me from the evil capitalist trappings of the internet providers as they seek to steal away my assigned income. I can see the future where under the watchful hands of the select and appointed few we all can received our fair share of the internet access and speed as is afforded us by our station and role in the greatest collective. The taxes that will be imposed on those that escape the rules and standards set forth will be brought to account for the evil they propagate on our infrastructure. As I shed tears of uncontrolled fear at the death to our freedom joy at the safety of these actions I praise the name of Obama.

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The real reason that I have finally stopped lurking and have stepped out of the shadows, is that the FCC ruling has weighted on my mind this past week and when I found out who was funding this action many different puzzle pieces came together.
I would truly miss the great comedy and raw sarcasm that is the People's Cube when they finally decide to steal our freedom away.
George Soros: Playing GOD – Act 6
As the FCC has now made a decision about the control and usage of the internet, I have to ask a question or two. Why? And what good is this doing us, but more importantly is who is behind this. After looking around a bit it was no surprise to find out the last answer.

As the media in the United States reaches more astounding lows of political partisanship and become the new pravda through the funding from select groups, foundations and other entities and government intrusion, as evident, in the attempt not too long ago, of introducing certain news regulatory specialists in each news organization appointed by the federal progressive machine that is our elected administration.

In paying attention and glimpsing what wizardry is happening behind the wool that is pulled over the willingly asleep democracy that we are quickly losing, there are certain truths that are unquestionable and are starting to come together.

It is no secret that Mr. Soros likes to play GOD as this sentiment is captured and recorded in interviews and in the written word. He expresses this idea of being able to make economic actions that result in his gaining massive amounts of money at the expense of nations in lives and civil unrest. 1997 Malaysia, 1992 Bank of England collapse and 2003 Georgia unrest were great opportunities for his string pulling and profit taking. These are just a few of the glaring machinations that allowed the best laid plans of the almighty (at least in his mind) George to play the role of “You never let a crisis go to waste”.

I highlight these historic facts to foreshadow the recent statements made by Mr. Soros where the United States needs to stop resisting the managed decline of the dollar. Notice the use of the words resist and managed. This scares me as the idea that there is a working effort that is managing the collapse of the American currency (economic terrorism) as a means of gorging themselves on the misery and demise of the freest nation (for how much longer?) on earth.

As is spelt out in many books about Mr. Soros' involvement in the financial instability of nations, this event is usually preceded by the control and purchase of that countries media. As you can now conclude from this evidence, the FCC ruling is much more than just a way for the government to push internet to everyone as a utility, a utility they control, tax and use to push their agenda, but is the last area of media and thought control that George Soros needs before he can make his strategic move to pilfer America clean.

Not only will we have lost the last bastion of free though (I have my own misgivings, as we also give voice to criminals and other on the net), but we will have finally surrendered to the new pravda and have reached the end of this great GOD establish experiment of liberty.

So, the FCC ruling pushed by the Obama administration, funded by George Soros and others, is the final shift in the Overton Windows as a Sunstein-ian nudge tips our country into burning ruin, as the progressives, socialists and the elites mold the world closer to their hearts desire.

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Gummipuppe wrote: The process is much like that used by Professor Hill in the Musik Man. There is "trouble in River City," so to speak, and the solution is to buy musical instruments and marching band uniforms from Professor Hill. However, in this case, there is trouble on the internet and the solution is to buy into Net Neutrality to make things "fair" and keep us all "safe" from exploitation by evil capitalist ISPs.

So, River City got a marching band, and Amerika got government regulation of the internet. "Problem" solved, and everyone is happy and dancing in the streets... for now.


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Well, can I have a marching band uniform anyway?

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Kelly Ivanovna/келя ивановна wrote:

Oh.



Well, can I have a marching band uniform anyway?
You will receive a uniform consisting of a green tunic, green, pants, and a green hat with a red star in the middle. It can be worn during politikal rallies to honor Komrade Glorious Leader, and heros of the motherland komrade Saul Alinksky, and komrade George Soros. You may hold up the red USSA banner and march in the uniform if you are approved to do so.

Kelly Ivanovna/келя ивановна wrote:Well, can I have a marching band uniform anyway?

Dear Kelly, if this one looks like it might fit I will deliver it personally and slobber like a St. Bernard while you try it on.

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