Republicans to cede on Net Neutrality

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/technology/path-clears-for-net-neutrality-ahead-of-fcc-vote.html

[IceSpear]

Thanks Obama!

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Thanks Obama!

[Frodo]

Excellent.

[King]

Glenn Beck failed to stop the government takeover of the Internet

[Zioneer]

Thanks Obama!

[Lief 🗽]

The Republicans ceding on net neutrality is the Obamacare of possible Republican responses to the FCC's net neutrality ruling.

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The responses to the FCC were over 99% in favor of net neutrality, so I imagine even among non-politician Republicans, it had to be completely overwhelming support.

[Ebowed]

Great news!

[Antonio the Sixth]

Thanks Obama!

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

The responses to the FCC were over 99% in favor of net neutrality, so I imagine even among non-politician Republicans, it had to be completely overwhelming support.

Yeah, this is a pretty undeniable example of 'opposing it just because Obama's for it' from the Republican political classes.

[Marokai Backbeat]

The responses to the FCC were over 99% in favor of net neutrality, so I imagine even among non-politician Republicans, it had to be completely overwhelming support.

And it never made sense to make this a political sticking point anyway. There's no real way to reverse this decision in the short term, you would have to completely dig your feet in and bitch about it at virtually every opportunity and among the informed about this issue there's really not much debate about this. Making a fight out of this also risks allowing it to become a youth wedge issue in 2016, which Republicans seem to know better than to try doing. It's a losing issue in a Presidential campaign, basically impossible to overturn, and too complicated to grab the attention of old people for very long.

[King]

You big gubmet libs don't get it. If you don't like the Internet you are getting just walk away and sign up for a new one!! Common sense solutions!!!

[bedstuy]

The responses to the FCC were over 99% in favor of net neutrality, so I imagine even among non-politician Republicans, it had to be completely overwhelming support.

I don't think so.  I would bet that the vast majority have no idea what net neutrality is. 

Among the Republicans that have heard of it, I'll bet most are against it because they heard about it from talk radio or Fox News.

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It's almost as if Republicans don't see the wisdom of holding the line on an issue when public reaction is massively against them.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

It's almost as if Republicans don't see the wisdom of holding the line on an issue when public reaction is massively against them.

Right, like when they dropped their opposition to gun control after the Newtown school shooting.

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The responses to the FCC were over 99% in favor of net neutrality, so I imagine even among non-politician Republicans, it had to be completely overwhelming support.

Yeah, this is a pretty undeniable example of 'opposing it just because Obama's for it' from the Republican political classes.

some sectors of capital no doubt 'oppose net neutrality'.  the major telecom companies would love to be able to charge for the right to have your website accessed at x speed.  

once TW and Comcast merge, it'll be easy.  any non-corporate site will be throttled to a few kbs/second, rendering them effectively inaccessible.  you'll have fewer websites to access than cable channels on the TV.

[TDAS04]

Thanks Obama!

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

It's almost as if Republicans don't see the wisdom of holding the line on an issue when public reaction is massively against them.

Right, like when they dropped their opposition to gun control after the Newtown school shooting.

I'm gonna need you to show me when American public opinion became overwhelmingly in favor of gun control.

Background checks, you may have a point. But there was no stand-alone proposal for background checks.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

It's almost as if Republicans don't see the wisdom of holding the line on an issue when public reaction is massively against them.

Right, like when they dropped their opposition to gun control after the Newtown school shooting.

I'm gonna need you to show me when American public opinion became overwhelmingly in favor of gun control.

Background checks, you may have a point. But there was no stand-alone proposal for background checks.

Err...that's basically what Manchin-Toomey was

[Türkisblau]

And the valiant Ted Cruz fails in his mission to destroy everything Americans stand for.

Thanks Obama!

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Let's see what the Internet has to say!

[King]

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the "left group" is Electronic Frontier Organization, an open internet advocacy nonprofit.  their concern is that the clause that allows the FCC to act against "non-neutral" practices that "harm consumers", and that the statute doesn't place enough limits on this authority.

of course:  we worry that this rule will be extremely expensive in practice, because anyone wanting to bring a complaint will be hard-pressed to predict whether they will succeed... As a practical matter, it is likely that only companies that can afford years of litigation to answer these questions will be able to rely on the rule at all.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/dear-fcc-rethink-those-vague-general-conduct-rules

[SWE]

The fact that that there people who own computers and oppose net neutrality is baffling to me