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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNoted Dumbass Rand Paul Wants to KILL NET NEUTRALITY All By Himself
There are plenty of hair-brained plans to destroy net neutrality rules, but the latest is, like, hair-brained minus the brain part. You wont be surprised to hear that the man behind it is attention addict and presidential hopeful Rand Paul. We need to have a chat about facts, Rand. Long story short: Rand Paul wants to ruin the internet by repealing the newand widely lovednet neutrality rules from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Ruin the internet is a strong phrase, but its exactly what many very smart internet experts say will happen if strong net neutrality rules arent implemented. Senator Paul has now introduced a bill to the Senate that he intends to push through Congress with the help of a nebulous law that removes procedural hurdles when trying to repeal new regulations. Senator Paul has no cosponsors on the bill. So avoiding the political idiocy of going alone with an unpopular opinion on net neutrality, lets just focus on the facts that Rand Paul is spitting in Americas direction. Because theyre not facts at all! Theyre just plain incorrect. Here are three lines from Senator Pauls statement about the bill:
This regulation by the FCC is a textbook example of Washingtons desire to regulate anything and everything, and will do nothing more than wrap the Internet in red tape.
Well thats wrong. Theres actually very little red tape involved in the FCCs net neutrality rules. The rules are basically written to preserve the internet as it currently exists which, it should be made clear, is pretty unregulated. (More on this in a second.) You might call the provisions to prohibit internet fast lanes, traffic throttling, and website blocking red tape. But you might also call laws that prohibit injustice, theft, and censorship red tape as well.
The Internet has successfully flourished without the heavy hand of government interference.
Nope! The internet has long been regulated by existing communications laws, however minimally. The FCC classified broadband as an information service back in 2002, after the dot com bubble burst, and imposed a specific set of regulations thats governed the internet for the past decade and a half. However, those regulations allowed internet service providers to do things that were good for their profits but bad for American consumers. Thats why the FCC crafted new rules that treat the internet more like a public utilityfor the good of American consumers. Presidential hopefuls should probably be on board with that.
Stated simply, I do not want to see the government regulating the Internet.
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Noted Dumbass Rand Paul Wants to KILL NET NEUTRALITY All By Himself (Original Post)
Segami
May 2015
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(297,655 posts)1. Good to know.. another striking diff between recons and Dems. mahalo Segami
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)2. It would be okay with him...
...if a liberal-owned ISP decided to filter out Rand's campaign site plus the rest of the conservative websites, Christian websites and gun websites without telling their customers they were doing it?