n_huffhines
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I was adamantly opposed to net neutrality, but I had no idea it would be this bad from the get go. Surprise! The people that put their trust in government couldn't have been more wrong.
300 pages of regulation.THE STARTING POINT is already more than you asked for. I warned you all. You ruined my internet. You deserve to burn in hell.
L. Gordon Crovitz: From Internet to Obamanet - WSJ
300 pages of regulation.THE STARTING POINT is already more than you asked for. I warned you all. You ruined my internet. You deserve to burn in hell.
Both ObamaCare and Obamanet submit huge industries to complex regulations. Their supporters say the new rules had to be passed before anyone could read them. But at least ObamaCare claimed it would solve long-standing problems. Obamanet promises to fix an Internet that isnt broken.
The permissionless Internet, which allows anyone to introduce a website, app or device without government review, ends this week.
No one, including the bullied FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, thought the agency would go this far. The big politicization came when President Obama in November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply the agencys most extreme regulation to the Internet.
The Supreme Court has ruled that if the FCC applies Title II to the Internet, all uses of telecommunications will have to pass the just and reasonable test. Bureaucrats can review the fairness of Google s search results, Facebook s news feeds and news sites links to one another and to advertisers. BlackBerry is already lobbying the FCC to force Apple and Netflix to offer apps for BlackBerrys unpopular phones.
AT&T has decades of experience leveraging FCC regulations to stop competition. Last week AT&T announced a high-speed broadband plan that charges an extra $29 a month to people who dont want to be tracked for online advertising. New competitor Google Fiber can offer low-cost broadband only because it also earns revenues from online advertising. In other words, AT&T has already built a case against Google Fiber that Googles cross-subsidization from advertising is not just and reasonable.
L. Gordon Crovitz: From Internet to Obamanet - WSJ