GOP Lawmakers Threaten To Repeal Net Neutrality

politico.com:

Less than an hour after the Federal Communications Commission approved Net neutrality rules, Republican lawmakers began staking their claim in the next potential leg of the debate: repeal.

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Comments

[farmilyman]

01:02 AM on 12/27/2010

Why do they want to repeal fairness and neutrality???.......Oh that's right....the ARE the GOP.

[Madbunny]

02:49 AM on 12/25/2010

Ugh.

Ok, so instead of 'jobs jobs jobs' the first thing that the GOP does is to defang legislation that ensures that people have free and equal access to the greatest tool of free speech that the world has ever known?

Do these people even care one slightest bit about what net neutrality means? Obviously not I guess, since they figure their favorite show will always be on top and the best way to avoid that is to squash everyone else. What happens when the shoe is on the other foot, and they're out of power, when the country rejects them?

Oh, yes that's right they cry victim and use every dirty trick they can to prevent people from getting on with their day. I find it disgusting how every single moment of their careers appears to be geared toward consolidating power for their Plutocratic benefactors.

[kcwookie]

12:03 AM on 12/25/2010

What happened to jobs?

[conservicide]

03:38 PM on 12/24/2010

Go ahead Bonerr, make my day.

[Winski]

10:23 PM on 12/23/2010

We're threatening to repeal the RETHUGLICAN PARTY. They don't represent ANY segment of the American public anymore so they are done...

You're dismissed..

[3dtrix]

04:16 PM on 12/23/2010

Did the FCC neglect to hand over EVERYTHING on the web to the GOP's corporate masters?

Then they didn't do what they were hired to do, I suppose.

Back to the drawing board, then - the USA won't be gloriously "free" until there isn't anything left without a logo on it...

[mjtaylor22]

03:25 PM on 12/23/2010

Instead of a rule to protect Internet users' freedom to choose, the Commission has opened the door for broadband payola - letting phone and cable companies charge steep tolls to favor the content and services of a select group of corporate partners, relegating everyone else to the cyber-equivalent of a winding dirt road

[Almondo]

04:58 AM on 12/23/2010

Give Bohner another bottle of whine and he will threaten to repeal the civil war.
"Well, 'burp' when Joe what's his name, and Sharron Angle and Meg Whitman get here in January, well we are going to cap off a few bottles and then we will get right down to repealing the 'burp', pledge of allegiance."

[Virgil Kane]

04:54 PM on 12/22/2010

Ever notice that republicans are increasingly pro-corporations and equate that with being pro-freedom? Mega corporations want to steal freedom from us lowly serfs.

[Virgil Kane]

04:51 PM on 12/22/2010

So all the people that say net neutrality is the "fairness doctrine for the internet" don't know what they are talking about?

[jsgaetano]

12:11 PM on 12/22/2010

So the Gooptards really have their work cut out for them.
 
They need to repeal several portions of the US Constitution, half the Bill of Rights, all the Amendments created after the Civil War, and every Federal Law.
 
Then they want to destroy every government agency, and hand all the power over to the Saudi Government.
 
Yep, the Crybaby Couple of McConnell and Boehner is really going to be busy next year.

[IreneNH]

11:15 AM on 12/22/2010

Boehner's not going to cry over this, is he? Although most posters seem to think these rules are bad, I would caution them about believing that the Republicans who are threatening repeal have their interests at heart. Republicans are entrenched in the corporate sector. If they are threatening repeal, there is something in it for big businesses like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon. And something in it for Republicans like large campaign contributions.

[jsgaetano]

12:14 PM on 12/22/2010

Conservatives don't care.  They are True Believers in their hardcore Fascist ideology.
 
If huge multinational corporations can't own their souls, they'll never feel "free".

[ProfGiles]

09:59 AM on 12/22/2010

The only thing more frighteningly more anti-freedom/pro-Corporation than this FCC ruling is what a Republican plan would be.

[warghul]

09:56 AM on 12/22/2010

I am usually totally opposed to R's but in this case, I really hope they succeed. These rules are terrible.

[Draekia]

06:05 AM on 12/24/2010

But to not have the rules is worse. I fail to see how throwing out weak regulation in favor of none is a good idea.

[MrMcTwister]

08:55 AM on 12/22/2010

“This proposal appears to be riddled with loopholes that would open the door to all kinds of future abuses, allowing companies like AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, the big Internet service providers, to decide which websites are going to work, which aren’t, and which are going to be able to get special treatment.”

-Craig Aaron
Free Press Managing Director