Verizon is the plaintiff.
Duh....
Duh....
Oh....I get it, because they sued to prevent punitive regulation from being forced on them. They must be guilty of planning to commit some egregious act against their customers that would put them at a competitive disadvantage to their competitors? Sounds like a pretty clever bunch Bourgeoisie there I tell ya!
And there you have it, straight from the mouth of a former FCC Chairman. And some of you guys once again fell for their BS. One of these days you will figure out that when their lips are moving, they are lying...
It's really amazing that people seem so quick to condemn something if the government is involved, but seem to think that multinational corporations act in your best interest and in the interest of free markets.
Who is also the "president and CEO of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association." It's useful to hear both sides, but he's hardly unbiased--he has a bunch of horses in this race.
I still don't know what to think about Net Neutrality, except for not trusting it just because of the name. There has been so much back and forth and so much secrecy it's insane.
What I do know is that my sister runs one of those groups listed in _cy_'s post. I do know that she and her peeps are hard core progressive socialists in the worst way (the kind that want to pay for everything with other people's money while still keeping their own nice house in the hills on acreage and their house on the cape, largely paid for from salaries derived from grants and endowments...of other people's money lol). I also know what her end game is. Her end game is either government controlled, government owned, or government subsidized broadband internet to the masses, just like healthcare. They want it to be more manna from big government to the people. She doesn't think it's "fair" that she has to pay a lot for satellite internet because she chooses to live in the boonies of New England....the .gov needs to make the evil broadband companies bring it to her cheaply.
Does that mean Net Neutrality will end up being that? I don't know, but if that's what the groups supporting it want, then I don't trust anything they are cheering about.
What I do know is that my sister runs one of those groups listed in _cy_'s post. I do know that she and her peeps are hard core progressive socialists in the worst way (the kind that want to pay for everything with other people's money while still keeping their own nice house in the hills on acreage and their house on the cape, largely paid for from salaries derived from grants and endowments...of other people's money lol). I also know what her end game is. Her end game is either government controlled, government owned, or government subsidized broadband internet to the masses, just like healthcare. They want it to be more manna from big government to the people. She doesn't think it's "fair" that she has to pay a lot for satellite internet because she chooses to live in the boonies of New England....the .gov needs to make the evil broadband companies bring it to her cheaply.
Does that mean Net Neutrality will end up being that? I don't know, but if that's what the groups supporting it want, then I don't trust anything they are cheering about.
Michael Powell can spin it anyway he wants but the "four freedoms" her espouses in this piece are the same freedoms that verizon sued to overturn in federal court.
That is a fact.
Again, it is Verizon that started this crap and forced the hand of the FCC.
They even have their own commissioner.
The minority opinion, cited earlier in this thread, was written by Ajit Pai.
Ajit Pai was a lawyer at Verizon before being apointed to the commission.
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