https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-354194A1.pdf
The Chairman speaking to college kids:
...
"At the dawn of the commercial Internet, policymakers faced a fundamental
choice. Should we regulate this new thing called the Internet like a lumbering
utility? Do we want it to be as innovative as a water company? Do we want it
to work as fast as the DMV? Or do we want the free market to guide its
development and allow it to scale? In a historic and bipartisan decision in
1996, President Clinton and a Republican Congress went the latter route. They
made it our national policy that the Internet should be 'unfettered by federal
and state regulation.'
"The results speak for themselves. Companies spent $1.5 trillion building
Internet networks. Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix grew from scrappy
startups to global giants. Consumers reaped the benefits of online innovation
in countless ways."
No more clued in than the average trade scribe - all but one, that is. The one
whose article I quoted some time ago, who said it like it really is.
In 1996, and the 15 years prior, the American public was lucky to have had
Title II telephone lines, strictly neutral, from which to reach a thoroughly
competitive gaggle of ISPs. Those that attempted to wall up the Internet, such
as AOL and CompuServe, *failed*. Had people had the choices this Clueless
Chairman now wants to give them, and had the telcos had the choice to block
these pesky ISPs that forced them to account for lines that remained "nailed
up" for hours, the Internet would never have been what it is today.
Now he wants to give the cable companies, that provide this telecom service,
the right to treat the Internet like their own private little enclave, to get
in cahoots with Internet sites, and to treat telecom users like the suckers
they've been stringing along in their MVPD service.
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, all of these, are businesses, not "the
Internet." They depend on the Internet. Why does this genius think that so many
businesses that use the freakin' Internet were demanding it remain neutral? Oh
yeah, that's right. Because he ignored all their comments. He pretended the FCC
was being hacked.
People who are so technically ignorant cannot occupy such an important office.
Stubborn cuss. Boot him out of office!
Bert
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