[opendtv] Re: Comments to the FCC
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 08:24:40 -0400
On May 1, 2017, at 10:58 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Finally you got it. The FCC works for us, so they need to understand what we
think. Very simple. Tom Wheeler got this much, even though he was opposed to
using Title II. The people told him, and the courts did too.
Obama told him....
But you are way off base about "the people" telling Wheelers FCC to implement
TItle II. There were about 4 million comments; many of those comments were
identical, and some were generated by "bots," not real people. ANd some of the
comments were AGAINST using title II. Any way you look at it, at best about 1%
of the U.S. population submitted comments to the FCC.
I did not arguing against net neutrality, and I don't know anyone
who did.
I repeat: then you have no problem. Quit complaining.
Sorry, but the Title II decision was not NEUTRAL. It was unnecessary and opened
the door for government regulation of the Internet; and it did not take long
for Wheeler's FCC to start regulating.
- Is the century old doctrine of regulating utilities as
"natural monopolies" still relevant today?
Circling back to square 1? Yes, and I have explained many times why.
WE STRONGLY DISAGREE.
- Should the government pick winners and losers in ANY industry?
Neutrality specifically does not pick winners and losers. A lack of a
neutrality mandate would!
But that is exactly what happened after the Title II decision. The privacy
rules imposed on ISPs disadvantage them relative to large Internet services
like Google and Amazon. This is not debatable.
Fortunately Congress eliminated those rules.
The FCC was TOLD to use Title II, to mandate neutrality. They had no option,
other than to hand the special interests whatever they might want, on a
silver platter. I already told you, Craig, so enough of your circling back.
You can easily opt out of Amazon. Not so easy for you to opt out of Cox.
Nothing uneven or unfair in any of this.
Yes, I can choose whether or not to use any Internet service, just as I can
choose among ISPs.
As for being told to use TItle II, once again you are right. The courts blocked
the 2010 attempt to create net neutrality rules, saying that they could not do
what they were trying to do under Title I. That decision could have been
appealed, but instead Obama inserted himself into the process and told Wheeler
to use Title II.
Once again we have reached the end of a thread...
Finis
Regards
Craig
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