This Is the Year Donald Trump Kills Net Neutrality

[wolfbat359]

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/year-donald-trump-kills-net-neutrality/?mbid=nl_1217_p3&CNDID=48165278

2015 was the year the Federal Communications Commission grew a spine. And 2017 could be the year that spine gets ripped out.

Over the past two years, the FCC has passed new regulations to protect net neutrality by banning so-called “slow lanes” on the internet, created new rules to protect internet subscriber privacy, and levied record fines against companies like AT&T and Comcast. But this more aggressive FCC has never sat well with Republican lawmakers.

Soon, these lawmakers may not only repeal the FCC’s recent decisions, but effectively neuter the agency as well. And even if the FCC does survive with its authority intact, experts warn, it could end up serving a darker purpose under President-elect Donald Trump.
The End of Net Neutrality

Predicting exactly what sort of telecommunications policy the next administration will pursue is tricky. The main clues we have thus far are the writings of Trump’s transition team. But transition teams don’t actually make policy, so they’re an imprecise indication of what will follow. “It’s amusing to watch all the misguided tea-leaf reading based on the transition team members,” says Kevin Werbach, an associate professor at the Wharton School who was part of President Barack Obama’s transition team. “It’s like when people speculated about Obama’s policy agenda based on attributes of my World of Warcraft character.”

That said, Webach’s writings were pretty consistent with Obama’s campaign promises, as were those of his fellow transition team member Susan Crawford. All three supported net neutrality—the idea that all internet traffic should be treated equally—which became a central issue for the FCC under Obama.

Some have held out hope that Trump end up being more friendly to net neutrality once in office, despite a tweet in 2014 claiming that net neutrality would somehow be used to target conservative media (a claim that makes no sense), based largely on the Trump’s opposition to the AT&T and Time-Warner merger during his campaign. But there’s little reason to think net neutrality will survive under Trump. His transition team is just as united against net neutrality as their predecessors were for it. Congressional Republicans have been working to kill the FCC’s net neutrality rules since before the FCC voted on them. The two Republican FCC commissioners have already vowed to overturn the FCC’s current net neutrality rules and other regulations. So you don’t need to read tea leaves to predict that the FCC’s net neutrality rules are not long for this world. ....

[me]

From your link:"Soon, these lawmakers may not only repeal the FCC’s recent decisions, but effectively neuter the agency as well"

If memory serves, lawmakers have the authority over their agencies. "What the Lord giveth He can takeath away". So what is your beef?

[wolfbat359]

On Monday, January 2, 2017 at 8:49:28 PM UTC-7, me wrote:
> From your link:"Soon, these lawmakers may not only repeal the FCC’s recent decisions, but effectively neuter the agency as well"
>
> If memory serves, lawmakers have the authority over their agencies. "What the Lord giveth He can takeath away". So what is your beef?

We need net neutrality

[GLOBALIST]

You keep posting all kinds of crap that President Trump is "going to do"
You are cock sure of your info. "Counting your chickens before they hatch"

[rumpelstiltskin]

'Deed we do.

[me]

Elections have consequences. It was said we need Obamacare. We elected the other political party.

[Z]

me wrote:
> Elections have consequences. It was said we need Obamacare. We
> elected the other political party.
>

No, Hillary won by almost three million votes, liar.

[Z]

GLOBALIST wrote:
> You keep posting all kinds of crap that President Trump is "going to do"
> You are cock sure of your info. "Counting your chickens before they hatch"

Time will tell. I hope you've got a lot of money saved for health care
because your con man Trump is going after medicare and the VA. This is
NOT a prediction but what Trump and his right wing cronies have been
saying for months.

[Dan C]

Nope, she lost. It was 306 to 230-something.

Now you know.

President Donald J. Trump.



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[Dan C]

Really?

How about you post a (credible) news source that shows where Trump *SAID*
he is going to "go after Medicare and the VA".

Please. Can you do that?

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[me]

Does government health care do the trick?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/world/americas/dying-infants-and-no-medicine-inside-venezuelas-failing-hospitals.html?_r=0

[Lawrence Akutagawa]

"GLOBALIST" wrote in message
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****** This line separates my response from the foregoing ******

LOOK! LOOK!! LOOK!!!
The Village Idiot's "President/NOT President" coin landed "President" up
this time! What *WOULD* the Village Idiot do without his "President/NOT
President" coin?

And here, of course...the Village Idiot being the Village Idiot...is the
Village Idiot's most favorite Intellectual Coward ploy where the Village
Idiot yet again...yet again, I say...runs away from the issue of his having
to flip his "President/NOT President" coin in order to figure out what to
call The Whining Donald each and every time. Naturally, the Village Idiot
runs away tail again between his legs back down into that deep dark
depressing hole of his under his rock.

[wizardr...@msn.com]

Those three million are society's misfits and whining dependents. They cluster together, feasting on each other's fleas and roaches that crawl along and out of matted hair and bodily orifices. Do they vote Democrat? Does a bear shot in the woods.

[Lawrence Akutagawa]

The Old Fool wrote in message
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***** This line separates my response from the foregoing ******

Boy o boy o boy.
Even those nasty bears in the woods are NRA supporters, getting in their
target practice as the Old Fool states!
As well can be seen from the Old Fool's very words here, the well trained
Old Fool yet once more makes my case for me that the one and only thing that
he the Old Fool can do is...as here...make an Old Fool out of himself the
Old Fool as he the Old Fool clearly and most obviously does right here
again. Indeed, even as early as this new year is, the Old Fool has
already...repeat, already...doubled down yet again on the existence of that
100% totally imaginary Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles, again...yes,
again...providing in his most Old Fool fashion only his words, words, and
yet more words. But do note that in doubling down yet again, the Old
Fool...as he the Old Fool does with each such doubling down...honestly and
truthfully makes my case for me.

I am so very fortunate and most appreciative in having the well trained Old
Fool so consistently...so faithfully...so dutifully...so reliably making my
case for me over and over and over and over and over.....

[Z]

Dan C wrote:

>>> Elections have consequences. It was said we need Obamacare. We
>>> elected the other political party.
>>>
>>>
>> No, Hillary won by almost three million votes, liar.
>
> Nope, she lost. It was 306 to 230-something.

Not a democracy then.

>
> Now you know.
>
> President Donald J. Trump.
>
>
>

And Bush won 5 to 4. The USA is no longer a democracy. You are now fully
owned by the corporations. Long live socialism and, Dan C, go fuck yourself.

[Z]

Dan C wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:28:17 +0100, Z wrote:
>
>> GLOBALIST wrote:
>>> You keep posting all kinds of crap that President Trump is "going
>>> to do" You are cock sure of your info. "Counting your chickens
>>> before they hatch"
>>
>> Time will tell. I hope you've got a lot of money saved for health
>> care because your con man Trump is going after medicare and the VA.
>> This is NOT a prediction but what Trump and his right wing cronies
>> have been saying for months.
>
> Really?
>
> How about you post a (credible) news source that shows where Trump
> *SAID* he is going to "go after Medicare and the VA".
>
> Please. Can you do that?
>
>
>

I don't do research for assholes like you. If you want to confirm it,
research it yourself, ass wipe.

[Dan C]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 11:42:13 +0100, Z wrote:

> Dan C wrote:
>
>>>> Elections have consequences. It was said we need Obamacare. We
>>>> elected the other political party.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> No, Hillary won by almost three million votes, liar.
>>
>> Nope, she lost. It was 306 to 230-something.
>
> Not a democracy then.

Nope. Absolutely not. You are correct.

The USA has always been a "Republic". NOT a "Democracy".

If you don't believe me, look it up, spaniard.

Seriously, you didn't know that? LOL! HAR!

>
>
>> Now you know.
>>
>> President Donald J. Trump.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> And Bush won 5 to 4. The USA is no longer a democracy.

Stupid spaniard. See above. The USA has *NEVER* been a democracy.

Damn, you're more stupid than I thought.

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[Dan C]

Ahhhhh, the usual response. Gotcha.

You can't back up your claim, because it's a *LIE*.

Just like it always is from "Z".

<GUFFAW>

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[wizardr...@msn.com]

You can't find that museum because you haven't the mental initiative anymore than you can write a simple post without repeating yourself over and over and over and over and over, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Is that the way the natives of your home island of Ignorancia talk......where they just repeat everything they say to the 10th power? If you're addressing somebody, Lawrence, it's normally sufficient to carry the conversation on by just referring to the subject's name just ONCE, if one time is adequate in maintaining fluidity of thought. Or is that the way the missionary/teacher who was visiting Ignorancia taught you primates to converse? Or did you get this confused with the litany of prayers on the rosary? (Not that praying anything would redeem you, of course) While we're touching a bit on the subject, can you tell us why you were defrocked? I've asked repeatedly this question, and have never received a response.

[Lawrence Akutagawa]

The Old Fool wrote in message

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[chuckle, chuckle, chuckle]
Read those Old Fool words in that Old Fool post by the Old Fool yourself and
see two things -

- The Old Fool expects the bare bottom, honest to goodness, solid as can be
truth to change at each and every telling!

- The Old Fool once again...yet once again...makes my case for me that he
the Old Fool, being of course the Old Fool that he the Old Fool again and
again vindicates...as here...himself the Old Fool to be, can do but one and
only one thing - make an Old Fool out of himself the Old Fool as he the Old
Fool clearly does here once more.

Addendum one - The Old Fool once again doubles down on that totally pretend
Old Fool Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles,, providing yet once more in
true Old Fool fashion only his Old Fool words, words, and yet more words. I
just love the Old Fool making my case for me by doubling down on his Old
Fool totally and completely non-existent Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles
each and every time as he the Old Fool does here once again.

Addendum two - It heartens the bottom of my heart to see that the Old Fool
finally...finally, I say...recognizes the efficacy of addressing him the Old
Fool as being the Old Fool at each and every opportunity to in actual fact
call attention to the fact that the Old Fool is indeed the Old Fool that he
the Old Fool clearly is. Why? Because, for one reason, the Old Fool
clearly...despite all these references to him the Old Fool as being the Old
Fool...still - still, I say - does not really totally realize nor even
acknowledge that he the Old Fool is indeed the Old Fool that I say he the
Old Fool is.

Addendum three - The Old Fool clearly does not at all realize nor comprehend
that with each and every one of these Old Fool comments of his, he the Old
Fool just makes my case for me each and every time. But that is totally
fine with me because reminding the Old Fool that he the Old Fool really
honestly and truthfully each and every time over and over again makes my
case for me is really an integral part of the fun and games of having the
Old Fool around to entertain us as he the Old Fool does time and time again.