Our FCC Chairman can't get past his lies. The Internet's success depended 100%
on the existence of Title II, mandated to be neutral, telephone lines. The
telcos, in fact, were not a bit happy that their lines being were kept "nailed
up," as they put it, for Internet use. From the 1980s to the early 2000s,
essentially for its first 20 years, the Internet prospered only because of
Title II. The Internet was free and open because of Title II.
In the early 2000s, when broadband service made traditional 4 kHz-limited
telephone lines unsuitable for improved Internet service, that's when the
shenanigans began. Why did they begin? Because the cable TV companies, which
became the main broadband provider, thought they could go on behaving like they
had always done, when offering TV channels. The cable TV companies did not
grasp that they had become "common carriers," for their broadband service, and
that this is what everyone expected of them. They thought it was still okay for
the service provider to pick and choose what the subscribers would see, perhaps
in cahoots with the site owners, just as they had always done in the past.
This FCC Chairman is unable to get past his previous loyalties and his previous
mindsets, unable to get past his monotonous and simplistic mantra. He
stubbornly refuses to listen to what the vast majority of people are demanding,
he can only think of the best interests of a handful of cable TV companies.
Truly, I have to say, unfit for the job.
Bert
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https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2018/db0516/DOC-350746A1.pdf
Media Contact:
Tina Pelkey, (202) 418-0536
tina.pelkey@xxxxxxx
For Immediate Release
CHAIRMAN PAI STATEMENT ON SENATE CRA VOTE
--
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2018-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai
released the following statement regarding the U.S. Senate's vote on the
Congressional Review Act resolution regarding the FCC's Restoring Internet
Freedom Order:
"It's disappointing that Senate Democrats forced this resolution through by a
narrow margin. But ultimately, I'm confident that their effort to reinstate
heavy-handed government regulation of the Internet will fail.
"The Internet was free and open before 2015, when the prior FCC buckled to
political pressure from the White House and imposed utility-style regulation on
the Internet. And it will continue to be free and open once the Restoring
Internet Freedom Order takes effect on June 11.
"Moreover, contrary to the scare tactics employed by Senate Democrats, which
earned three Pinocchios from the Washington Post's fact-checker, our
light-touch approach will deliver better, faster, and cheaper Internet access
and more broadband competition to the American people-something that millions
of consumers desperately want and something that should be a top priority. The
prior Administration's regulatory overreach took us in the opposite direction,
reducing investment in broadband networks and particularly harming small
Internet service providers in rural and lower-income areas. Our approach will
help promote digital opportunity-that is, making high-speed Internet access
available to every single American so that they can be participants in, rather
than spectators of, our digital economy."
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Office of Media Relations: (202) 418-0500
ASL Videophone: (844) 432-2275
TTY: (888) 835-5322
Twitter: @FCC
www.fcc.gov/media-relations
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission
https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2018/db0516/DOC-350743A1.pdf
Media Contact:
Travis Litman, (202) 418-2400
Travis.Litman@xxxxxxx
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER JESSICA ROSENWORCEL
ON SENATE VOTE TO RESTORE NET NEUTRALITY
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2018. -
"Today the United States Senate took a big step to fix the serious mess the FCC
made when it rolled back net neutrality late last year. The FCC's net
neutrality repeal gave broadband providers extraordinary new powers to block
websites, throttle services and play favorites when it comes to online content.
This put the FCC on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of the law, and
the wrong side of the American people. Today's vote is a sign that the fight
for internet freedom is far from over. I'll keep raising a ruckus to support
net neutrality and I hope others will too."
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Office of Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel: (202) 418-2400
Twitter: @JRosenworcel
www.fcc.gov/leadership/jessica-rosenworcel
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the full
text of a Commission order constitutes
official action. See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974
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