The FCC votes on Net Neutrality tomorrow...

[highland145]

Your healthcare costs did not go up 110%. This did not happen. Everyone who ever made this claim has been proven wrong and you are wrong too if we are being honest. You may have been forced to pay for a healthcare plan that covers much more than your old one, but prenatal care doesn't equal 110% jump in premiums. And dental? WTF does that have to do with healthcare?

Until you post up details of your old and new plans backing up your 110-115% numbers we will have to assume you are full of shit like everyone else spouting this nonsense.

94% or so. I did post details along with my plan #....Maybe I should post my SSN...:hmm: The same $10K deductible I had before. But if I get pregnant...golden. No dental/eye coverage. I may well be the exception because I'm self employed and don't get subsidies but I'm not a part of the "everyone."

 

[inachu]

Sounds fair. Darpa invented it so it was always under govt control.

I wonder how many ISP's will cheat and use QOS anyway.

 

[tracerbullet]

http://www.newsweek.com/are-campaign-donations-behind-republican-opposition-net-neutrality-312975

"But there may be another reason Blackburn opposes net neutrality—she received at least $80,000 from telecommunications companies last election cycle. According to the Center for Responsible Politics, Blackburn received $25,000 from AT&T, $20,000 from Comcast, $20,000 from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and $15,000 from Verizon."

This doesn't of course mean she's been "bought", but I don't like it.

Curious if companies for net neutrality have also donated, or if these same guys (Comcast, etc.) also donated to Democrats who went against their wishes. Haven't had a chance to try and find out yet.

 

[sphenodont]

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0312/FCC-15-24A1.pdf

The full text is out. Hey look, no government takeover, no censorship, no new taxes, none of the good stuff that the Republicans were promising.

Ajit Pai's dissent, however, is a hilarious pants-on-head Obama-the-usurper screed that would do the P&N crowd proud.

 

[boomerang]

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0312/FCC-15-24A1.pdf

The full text is out. Hey look, no government takeover, no censorship, no new taxes, none of the good stuff that the Republicans were promising.

Ajit Pai's dissent, however, is a hilarious pants-on-head Obama-the-usurper screed that would do the P&N crowd proud.

Since you've read all 400 pages, I'm hoping you can tell me what control the FCC now has over the Internet. I specifically would like to know what could be done in the future. What power this would grant them as time goes on. Thanks in advance.

 

[IronWing]

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0312/FCC-15-24A1.pdf

The full text is out. Hey look, no government takeover, no censorship, no new taxes, none of the good stuff that the Republicans were promising.

Ajit Pai's dissent, however, is a hilarious pants-on-head Obama-the-usurper screed that would do the P&N crowd proud.

Do you have a link to the the rest of the document? The file above goes out to page 400. The actual rules start further down the document.

 

[sphenodont]

Do you have a link to the the rest of the document? The file above goes out to page 400. The actual rules start further down the document.

It's all there.

The references in the index are to the paragraph number, not page.

 

[IronWing]

It's all there.

The references in the index are to the paragraph number, not page.

Ah, right, thank you.

 

[smackababy]

Anyone read it yet and got some cliffs? Or link to a summary? I don't have time to read it myself right now. =(

 

[sphenodont]

The thing is something like 66% footnotes and references. It's dense legalese, which is to be expected. There will certainly be several detailed breakdowns including the references to other laws and regs in the next few days, so I'd suggest waiting for those.

The meat of the report is an expansion of the four-page summary released earlier: Bright lines rules, no unreasonable interference, transparency requirements, etc. There is a good deal of space devoted to rationalizing the need for the new regulations as well as justifying the FCC's authority in doing so.

Around page 321 you can start reading Pai and O'Reilly's dissents. Pai rambles a lot, while O'Reilly is short and too the point, but they basically boil down to: "We like telecom money and we're not supposed to like this."

 

[mu11et]

Tennessee sues the FCC to stop city-run internet

 

[dank69]

Tennessee sues the FCC to stop city-run internet

That's some hardcore scumbaggery.