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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElizabeth Warren JOINS Call To SAVE THE INTERNET
Sen. Elizabeth Warren joins the growing number of Democratic lawmakers who want to save the internet. In this Facebook post she homes in on the key pointthe proposed rule the Federal Communications Commission will consider in two weeks is a big giveaway to corporate interests.
We dont know who is going to have the next big idea in this country, but were pretty sure theyre going to need to get online to do it. Reports that the FCC may gut net neutrality are disturbing, and would be just one more way the playing field is tilted for the rich and powerful who have already made it. Our regulators already have all the tools they need to protect a free and open Internetwhere a handful of companies cannot block or filter or charge access fees for what we do online. They should stand up and use them.
https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren/posts/10152168656593687?stream_ref=10
https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren/posts/10152168656593687?stream_ref=10
The proposal put forward by Chairman Tom Wheeler essentially gives up on the idea of making internet providers treat everybody alike in their access to internet users. Content providerslike Netflixwould have to pay extra to the big internet service providers like Verizon in order to make sure they get on the fast lanes of the internet, and their customers get the experience they're paying for. This is the route that Chairman Wheeler decided upon after a court struck down the previous rule the FCC was using to enforce net neutrality. But, as Warren argues, just giving in and letting the big guys have the internet isn't the only option the FCC hasand in fact, the court decision that led to this proposed rule gave the FCC a much stronger option. The court made clear that the FCC absolutely has the legal authority to regulate broadband, and it can do it by reclassifying broadband providers into the kind of telecommunications companies they actually are like. That would mean the FCC could regulate them just like wireless operators and phone companies. And enforce net neutrality.
Which is the last thing that the broadband providers want. They've got the ear of Wheeler and inordinate sway with the FCC. The playing field, as Warren would say, is definitely tilted in their favor. The only way to combat that is by the rest of us making a hell of a lot of noise.
MAKE NOISE!...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/01/1296213/-Elizabeth-Warren-joins-call-to-save-the-nbsp-internet
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Elizabeth Warren JOINS Call To SAVE THE INTERNET (Original Post)
Segami
May 2014
OP
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)1. k&r nt
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)3. Go get them Elizabeth!
99Forever
(14,524 posts)4. Any word from ...
... GoldmanSachs Hillary on the subject?
Maven
(10,533 posts)5. K/R...time to RECLASSIFY, FCC
Egnever
(21,506 posts)6. She should sponser a bill..
Not sure stamping feet is enough here.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)7. More proof that she is indeed...
a difficult woman.
Someone needs to inform he that she needs to learn to go along to get along.
Segami
(14,923 posts)9. She was warned by insiders...
Then Summers spilled the advice.
"He teed it up this way: I had a choice," Warren writes. "I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don't listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People -- powerful people -- listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don't criticize other insiders."
At the time, Warren led the congressional oversight panel reviewing the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that bailed out the banks.
"I had been warned," she concluded of the encounter.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/elizabeth-warren-book_n_5170018.html
After that, she basically told them all to fuckoff!
Shandris
(3,447 posts)10. I'd stay out of small planes if I were her.
But its about time someone told these thieves where to go!
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)11. Of course she is.
She's almost always on the right side of every issue. Has Hillary piped in on this subject yet? Anyone? **crickets**