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Commissioner Pai's Comments on Radio's Future

Carmine5 said:
Having worked for a governmental agency for a short time here is what Tom Wheeler's strategy is all about: agency preservation. As the FCC self-appoints regulating the internet, it can come back to Congress with a bigger budget and a demand for more money. "Downsizing?! Are you crazy?! How are we going to regulate the internet on this budget? We need more staff, bigger facilities."

And since the FCC now controls the internet, with its attendant fees and fines, it can further tout its ability as a Treasury revenue generator. And none too soon as they will soon be losing their ability to collect fees and fines from broadcast television when they destroy the service in the incentive auction.

I'm sure they will have a page for the public to file complaints such as this one: https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

In, fact they haven't wasted any time. It's on there already.

But keep in mind, the FCC needs verifiable proof of illegal activity by ISPs. That may not be easy to get.
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Tom Wheeler is a lifetime cable lobbyist. This is a move to protect Comcast's (and to a lesser extent the other major companies) monopoly. They make a big show complaining about this move by the FCC, but they're not really against it. This is ComcastNBC's payoff for being loyal to the party.
 
So the bad guy was Metro PCS, who dared offer affordable plans that allowed lower income people access to YouTube videos? Those monopolists!
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/art...nternet_you_loathe_net_neutrality_100893.html

This closes the door behind Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and all the big players, and causes companies like MetroPCS to not be able to offer cheap unlimited data. Everyone thinks government regulation is going to make their speeds go up and prices go down. The big players have already got theirs, it's not them who are going to suffer. I don't have any doubt the Republicans would have approved the merger as well.

Democrats being the Party of the working class? Yeah right.
 
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Ravens said:
What does the merger have to do with anything? Comcast and NBC are mouthpieces for the party. That's why the FCC has protected them.
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Which party?

The Republicans approved Comcast's merger with NBC Universal.

The Democrats opposed the merger of Comast with Time Warner.
 
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Net Neutrality and the Commission's recent attempt at involvement is nothing more than political theater. The Internet is a world-involved communications network, utilizing phone lines installed and controlled by companies, some based overseas (France Telecom as one example). The FCC may be able to regulate US based ISP's with their proposed rules, but they have no stand on how traffic along the world Internet backbone is handled. Companies who want to charge for "managed" bandwidth, will still be able to.
 
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