I hope and I trust that the vote will be, explicitly, on exactly these
provisions:
To nullify the FCC "repeal [of] regs against blocking, throttling and paid
prioritization."
That has to remain at the forefront, so even Republican constituents will know
if their representatives are working against their interests, as much as the
corrupt FCC is trying to do. Emphasize that the vote is to *oppose the FCC
permission* to block, throttle, and prioritize. Don't cloak this with emphasis
on obscure "Title II" verbiage, which will go right over the heads of the vast
majority.
The corrupt FCC had ample opportunity to try to obtain neutrality mandates by
other means, as indeed previous FCC Chairmen had attempted, but failed to do.
This time around, hey, the Chairman didn't even try. Instead, he gives full
blessing to any non-neutral behavior the monopolies can dream up, encourages
it, even. "Innovative," he calls it. Put that in front of the voters, plain as
day, and see how "innovatively" they boot you out of office.
Bert
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http://www.multichannel.com/news/congress/markey-cra-nullifying-net-reg-rollback-will-get-vote/417385
Congress
Markey: CRA Nullifying Net Neutrality Rollback to Get Vote
Senator says he has picked up sufficient co-sponsors
1/08/2018 1:31 PM Eastern
By: John Eggerton
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) says he has gotten the 30 co-signers he needs to force
the Republican-controlled congress to vote on a Democratic effort to nullify
the FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom order.
FCC Republicans voted Dec. 14 to roll back Title II classification of ISPs and
repeal regs against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization.
Markey and company are trying to use the same legislative device Republicans
used successfully to roll back some Obama-era regs, including the FCC's added
broadband privacy regs under the previous chairman, Tom Wheeler, against the
Republican 'net rule rollback under current Chairman Ajit Pai.
Backing the CRA move are Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, and Free Press
Action Fund, which launched an internet campaign to pressure Congress into
passing the CRA.
But getting the 30 Dems (actually 29 plus Sen. Bernie Sanders [I-Vt.) who
caucuses with the Dems) to force a vote, and all the Dems plus a couple of
Republicans, to vote to nullify the decision are quite different things.
Nonetheless, Markey was calling a it a big step in the right direction.
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