FCC Appears to Delay Net Neutrality Rules

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The Federal Communications Commission is kicking the can down the road. According to this news item, the FCC will be conducting a “further inquiry” into the matter but there is no telling when any action will be taken. :(

The Federal Communications Commission said it will be conducting a "further inquiry" into the details of broadband regulation, including whether wireless networks should be exempted from strict Net neutrality rules, a concept that Google and Verizon recently endorsed.
 
I call for total government takeover of the internet. They call for the establishment of post offices and postal roads in article 1, section 8 of the constitution. This was mainly meant for communication purposes. I suggest a revamp.

In my area we have been paying for a 3MB Verizon line that hardly ever gets above 512K for the past ten years. If that is not being taken advantage of regarding internet access I do not know what a better definition would be. Fiber to wireless, towers on top of post offices. Bump my taxes 150 dollars a year and I would still be paying half of what I am now.

I am sick of these communication companies not delivering what they market while fully knowing that they are lying about their service. At least we have a voting option when the government does that.
 
Government takeover of the internet... woo boy. If the US Government can just do for the internet what they have done with the Post Office we will all be back to 56k connections in five years, cannot wait.

Crazy talk.
 
Max Mike said:
Government takeover of the internet... woo boy. If the US Government can just do for the internet what they have done with the Post Office we will all be back to 56k connections in five years, cannot wait.

Crazy talk.

How about we get rid of the post office entirely. Every bank statement or insurance bill or anything else you receive by letter can be upped by a 7 dollar surcharge for UPS or Fedex delivery. I am sure our private companies would be happy to have the revenue generated by the 177 billion pieces of mail that circulated in 2009. That would have been a 1.2 trillion dollar return for them, and an extra thousand a year out of each of our pockets.

Does water flow in and the crap flow out of your house? Can you manage to drive places? Do you have electricity? Do we have submarines accidentaly detonating their trident payloads in the deep sea? I guess that whole satellite thing is a joke also, if it was not for the government we would have zero in space. Ever watch a football game?

Those of you who point the finger at the USPS and say how horrible they are, how many letters of yours have they lost in five years? Less than 50 cents to get uncountable volumes of mail delivered cross country. I have gotten sick of people complaining about how bad things are not.

If you consider the Post Office a shining example of how bad government is managed, take a stand and pay your money to the private companies, they will be more than happy to take it. The same is happening with the internet, where corporations are scheming on how to make us all pay more for what we have now.

Who has the crazy talk?
 
Crazy talk I say.

Last time I checked US Government does not take care of my water, sewage. or electricity nor most of the streets I drive on. As for Federal highway spending... I will have a "Bridge to Nowhere" with potholes on the side.

Pssst.... I suggest you actually look who is doing most commercials satellite launches for US companies. Not that you had a point anyway considering the horrible mess the US space program has been for 35 YEARS. But then I guess when you perceive not accidentally setting off nuclear weapon an achievement and the gross inefficiency of the US Postal Service as acceptable as you have low expectations. I have gotten sick of people praising poor service, waste, and inefficiency.

The FCC does not have a real plan here, ideas and clichés are not a workable plan. This is health care reform redux… empty promises, secrecy, trust us we know best, no plan, a mess of regulation no one not even the people who wrote it understand that in the end will give us higher cost and worse service.

There is a need for reasonable Government regulation but a call for a total government takeover of the internet is indeed crazy talk, very crazy.
 
The US Government is broken into various agencies and through that cascade of responsibility your services are taken care of. If you live in the city you can be damn well sure that before you were born there were sanitation regulations put into place that hold a standard for the water you receive to your home, and money put aside for those public work projects.

Thank that damn socialist Democrat Roosevelt if you still get your water from a well and your poop goes into a septic tank for the electricity to operate all of that, because as far as business is concerned the return for stringing a national spiderweb of higher transmission power was not (and probably still would be) worth it. Take a wild guess how communication lines then got to half of the country. The government provided the medium to make it cost effective to run a telephone line on the power poles.

You say the space program has been a mess for 35 YEARS. I would like to see what you can compare it to, since the only competitor that had a space program for over 35 years was the USSR. Here is a 2009 commercial feasibility study for private launch companies. Right now it is Boeing and Lockheed Martin, using launch vehicles they were paid to design and build for the federal government, and launching on federal property with federal and international oversight. Lets stop launching government satellites and see how long they will keep those programs alive, and then my hope would be they just stop instead of cost cutting themselves into a tragedy. I just watched the Gulf of Mexico get hosed because a corporation did not deem deep water catastrophes worth spending research money to plan for.

Are you a government inspector? I suggest not listening to the talking heads on your radio when it comes to comparing incomparable things. I do not know what you do not get but practically every modern amenity that is of mass scale was either bought or heavily subsidized by the government, it has been that way since the establishment of central governing systems thousands of years ago. Governments have to think in century terms. We had a massive financial failure that started ten years ago with the government lifting regulations.

Of everything else you had to say about how bad government is regarding waste and inefficiency, us not having an accident with any of our 28,000 warheads in the past 50 years, your complaints with the postal service, or that scary health care bill; I now realize that I did not understand to whom I was responding. I am now visualizing some made in china gadsden.

The FCC put the brakes on Net Neutrality because new technology has come out that has changed the scope of the debate. How things are currently shifting, there is a real chance that people will not be able to access Hardocp from a wireless device because their carrier considers it "too expensive", unless someone pays something additional or maybe even not then. Who knows. When major lifestyle changes affect the public good I do not want decisions left up to a greedy genius with an antisocial disorder. The man that has the button on the end of the world makes less than thousands of fourtune 500 VP's, and it rolls down from there.

Besides all of this the "internet" was a government program. According to you the government spends money on things we do not need; thank goodness the Americans of your mentality had no clue about any of this in the '60's because frankly I do not think we would be having this discussion here today.
 
The US Government is broken into various agencies and through that cascade of responsibility your services are taken care of. If you live in the city you can be damn well sure that before you were born there were sanitation regulations put into place that hold a standard for the water you receive to your home, and money put aside for those public work projects.

Thank that damn socialist Democrat Roosevelt if you still get your water from a well and your poop goes into a septic tank for the electricity to operate all of that, because as far as business is concerned the return for stringing a national spiderweb of higher transmission power was not (and probably still would be) worth it. Take a wild guess how communication lines then got to half of the country. The government provided the medium to make it cost effective to run a telephone line on the power poles.

You say the space program has been a mess for 35 YEARS. I would like to see what you can compare it to, since the only competitor that had a space program for over 35 years was the USSR. Here is a 2009 commercial feasibility study for private launch companies. Right now it is Boeing and Lockheed Martin, using launch vehicles they were paid to design and build for the federal government, and launching on federal property with federal and international oversight. Lets stop launching government satellites and see how long they will keep those programs alive, and then my hope would be they just stop instead of cost cutting themselves into a tragedy. I just watched the Gulf of Mexico get hosed because a corporation did not deem deep water catastrophes worth spending research money to plan for.

Are you a government inspector? I suggest not listening to the talking heads on your radio when it comes to comparing incomparable things. I do not know what you do not get but practically every modern amenity that is of mass scale was either bought or heavily subsidized by the government, it has been that way since the establishment of central governing systems thousands of years ago. Governments have to think in century terms. We had a massive financial failure that started ten years ago with the government lifting regulations.

Of everything else you had to say about how bad government is regarding waste and inefficiency, us not having an accident with any of our 28,000 warheads in the past 50 years, your complaints with the postal service, or that scary health care bill; I now realize that I did not understand to whom I was responding. I am now visualizing some made in china gadsden.

The FCC put the brakes on Net Neutrality because new technology has come out that has changed the scope of the debate. How things are currently shifting, there is a real chance that people will not be able to access Hardocp from a wireless device because their carrier considers it "too expensive", unless someone pays something additional or maybe even not then. Who knows. When major lifestyle changes affect the public good I do not want decisions left up to a greedy genius with an antisocial disorder. The man that has the button on the end of the world makes less than thousands of fourtune 500 VP's, and it rolls down from there.

Besides all of this the "internet" was a government program. According to you the government spends money on things we do not need; thank goodness the Americans of your mentality had no clue about any of this in the '60's because frankly I do not think we would be having this discussion here today.

QFTMFT.
 
Crazy talk I say.

Last time I checked US Government does not take care of my water, sewage. or electricity nor most of the streets I drive on. As for Federal highway spending... I will have a "Bridge to Nowhere" with potholes on the side.

Pssst.... I suggest you actually look who is doing most commercials satellite launches for US companies. Not that you had a point anyway considering the horrible mess the US space program has been for 35 YEARS. But then I guess when you perceive not accidentally setting off nuclear weapon an achievement and the gross inefficiency of the US Postal Service as acceptable as you have low expectations. I have gotten sick of people praising poor service, waste, and inefficiency.

The FCC does not have a real plan here, ideas and clichés are not a workable plan. This is health care reform redux… empty promises, secrecy, trust us we know best, no plan, a mess of regulation no one not even the people who wrote it understand that in the end will give us higher cost and worse service.

There is a need for reasonable Government regulation but a call for a total government takeover of the internet is indeed crazy talk, very crazy.

come on know, you know they have lot of successes. Look at public housing. :cool:
 
All arguments of government incompetence aside I think we need to member the basics

Our founding fathers limited the government to protect us. We have pretty much already given back most of what they sought to keep from them. Willingly. And here is a suggestion to hand them even more power. I can think of nothing more asinine.

IF you keep no fear of your government in your heart then you are a fool.

I may need to be protected (read have my rights protected) from money grubbing soulless corporations (and regrettably I do) but who will protect me from my government? Sorry but the government just does not need the internet at its disposal.
 
Crazy talk I say.

Last time I checked US Government does not take care of my water, sewage. or electricity nor most of the streets I drive on. As for Federal highway spending... I will have a "Bridge to Nowhere" with potholes on the side.

Pssst.... I suggest you actually look who is doing most commercials satellite launches for US companies. Not that you had a point anyway considering the horrible mess the US space program has been for 35 YEARS. But then I guess when you perceive not accidentally setting off nuclear weapon an achievement and the gross inefficiency of the US Postal Service as acceptable as you have low expectations. I have gotten sick of people praising poor service, waste, and inefficiency.

The FCC does not have a real plan here, ideas and clichés are not a workable plan. This is health care reform redux… empty promises, secrecy, trust us we know best, no plan, a mess of regulation no one not even the people who wrote it understand that in the end will give us higher cost and worse service.

There is a need for reasonable Government regulation but a call for a total government takeover of the internet is indeed crazy talk, very crazy

All arguments of government incompetence aside I think we need to member the basics

Our founding fathers limited the government to protect us. We have pretty much already given back most of what they sought to keep from them. Willingly. And here is a suggestion to hand them even more power. I can think of nothing more asinine.

IF you keep no fear of your government in your heart then you are a fool.

I may need to be protected (read have my rights protected) from money grubbing soulless corporations (and regrettably I do) but who will protect me from my government? Sorry but the government just does not need the internet at its disposal.

I decided to reply even if this is "old news". I usually post my commentary and opinion in the soapbox, so if you enjoy a good debate and decide to pay the five fucking dollars, we can have plenty of spirited conversations. There aremany rules in place, including responsible internet conduct, and respect for other posters and general behavioral languages to keep things on target to the topic at hand.

I did not see similar polices here, so let me be clear on my feelings. You and your ilk argue fact with opinion. I do not know if your type is so fucking stupid to think that me or my type is as fucking stupid as you, or you are just too fucking stupid to realize that. Maybe, in a much more easy to reason opinion, you are to fucking stupid to follow my posts, but either way there is a question of how fucking stupid you and your like minded thinkers are. We have been asking that on the private side of this website for years, you are more then welcome to join this conversation there. You are more than welcome to pay and respond so I do not thing you are as fucking stupid as you are sounding here, and everyone else is more than welcome to pay to find the outcome.

That is it for me here.

The next show starts at 7 tomorrow, remember to tip your waiter.
 
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