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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt just got easier for Republicans to roll back the laws keeping the internet open
The Federal Communications Commission chairman, Tom Wheeler, announced on Thursday that he would leave the agency when President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20, a move that could result in a swifter rollback of the net-neutrality rules Wheeler helped create in 2015.
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Now, however, those rules appear to be in serious doubt. While Trump has not said much about net-neutrality other than a 2014 tweet that called it a "top down power grab" he has declared a strong opposition to federal regulations in general.
Perhaps more significantly, the three members of Trump's transition team whom he has appointed to advise him on FCC- and telecom-related issues Jeffrey Eisenach, Mark Jamison, and Roslyn Layton have all deemed the net-neutrality rules overreaching and unnecessary in various papers and comments in recent years. Eisenach has consulted for telecom firms in the past, while Jamison once served as a lobbyist for Sprint.
What's more, Republican FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, who may be named interim chairman while Trump determines Wheeler's replacement, said in a speech last week that he thought the net-neutrality order's "days are numbered."
Rest at: http://www.businessinsider.com/fcc-tom-wheeler-leaving-net-neutrality-rules-trump-2016-12
larwdem
(758 posts)next thing will be your guns.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...WE DO NOT WANT CORPORATIONS (Comcast, Cox, etc.) deciding who gets proprietary treatment on the Internet.
Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)The internet ruined democracy. We need to take away everyone's internet privileges for a few years. Y'all addicts.