| House Committee not keen on Open Access anyway He really doesn't need to threaten Congress over Open Access. It looks like Open Access rules will never make it in to law anyway. During a hearing at a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Open Access was dismissed as irrelevant.
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Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, questioned how Genachowski could talk about encouraging private investment in broadband and also propose new net neutrality rules that would prohibit broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Internet content. The broadband plan has sent a "shiver of cold" across the investment community, he said.
While Democrats generally praised the plan, Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, questioned whether the plan would open up "old policy fights" by leaving open the possibility that broadband providers share their networks. Dingell also said he was concerned about the broadband plan's proposal to take up to 120MHz of wireless spectrum from television broadcasters in exchange for a portion of the auction revenues. Both Republicans & Democrats attacked parts of the FCC plan.
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2 edits | Actually that's not what Mike Rogers said at all. See, Mr. Rogers is confused about Net Neutrality. He thinks it's all about the FCC regulating content on the Net and picking winners and losers which is precisely what Net Neutrality prevents ISPs AND government from doing.
At 2:47:00 a confused Rep. Rogers agrees with Net Neutrality when presented it's definition by Genechowski »bit.ly/929daO
The biggest threat to Net Neutrality is allowing continued mis-information about it to spread. It's not a socialist takeover of the Internet as the lobbyist FUD would have you believe. |
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said by fAcEtIOUs:....Both Republicans & Democrats attacked parts of the FCC plan. both republicans and democrats are owned by big business. broadband in this country is on the slow road to nowhere and will remain there for the foreseeable future.
I guess I should consider myself lucky that I got FIOS before they stop deployments. |
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Rep. Rogers will sure change his mind after MI is left with Fontier and ATT and they don't see any thing change in their state. Oh wait, that has already happened since the state can't seem to get past they're no longer the Auto Maker state anymore.
But on the upside- at least the state can do something right and decide to get a smoke ban--that actually works and is needed in certain establishments.
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said by nasadude:said by fAcEtIOUs:....Both Republicans & Democrats attacked parts of the FCC plan. both republicans and democrats are owned by big business. broadband in this country is on the slow road to nowhere and will remain there for the foreseeable future. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I got FIOS before they stop deployments. And this country will fall further and further behind the rest of the world. These companies basically are putting profits ahead of national security which is basically treason in my book. |
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said by Michael C:Actually that's not what Mike Rogers said at all. See, Mr. Rogers is confused about Net Neutrality. He thinks it's all about the FCC regulating content on the Net and picking winners and losers which is precisely what Net Neutrality prevents ISPs AND government from doing. At 2:47:00 a confused Rep. Rogers agrees with Net Neutrality when presented it's definition by Genechowski » bit.ly/929daOThe biggest threat to Net Neutrality is allowing continued mis-information about it to spread. It's not a socialist takeover of the Internet as the lobbyist FUD would have you believe. Listening to these Congressmen talk about the internet is just sad. Half of them have no idea what they're talking about. The stupidity had me facepalming over and over again.
The commissioners look like they're trying all they can not to crack up in laughter. Near the end one of the Congressmen is like "commissioner you're shaking your head over there, would you like to add anything?" after his utterly stupid and nonsensical question.
Ah the state of democracy in the US... ah well. |
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1 edit | I was also very concerned at Genechowski's half-assed response to Rep. Rogers. While I give him credit for saying he flat out doesn't agree with the statement that Net Neutrality is the FCC regulating the Internet, he really wussed out on backing up that comment. He should have made the point very clear and in no uncertain terms what exactly Net Neutrality is. Instead, he hid behind the "uhh...well...I inherited this issue from a previous ruling forcing Net Neutrality on a condition of merger." (which btw, AT&T saw enormous growth under those forced regulations »www.fcc.gov/ATT_FINALMergerCommi···2-28.pdf »www.freepress.net/files/Finding_···nt_0.pdf) |
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