Why did President Obama appoint Tom Wheeler to head the FCC?

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111. I think your assessment is incorrect. Reclassifying the internet only gets them back to where they

started. The case was originally about net neutrality, specifically Verizon's argument that the government doesn't have the authority to enforce net neutrality. Verizon's position is that they own the pipes, and Google and Facebook shouldn't make billions without paying them to use the pipes. So they're arguing property rights, but also first amendment rights. That just sounds stupid to me, but hey I'm not an attorney.
The judge didn't answer the question about whether the gov't had the authority to enforce net neutrality. The opinion said since internet carriers weren't classified as common carriers, and the authority to regulate created by Congress applied only to common carriers, they couldn't use the law to enforce net neutrality. Basically, you wrote a law that pertains to oranges and you're calling this a orange colored citrus fruit so the law doesn't apply;. Once it's reclassified, they will go back to court and decide the original case. Another option, is to have the case appealed as it sits now. That is likely one of the considerations based on what I've read. If they don't appeal the case as is, they can change the classification but then they'll still go to court and we don't know how it will be ruled.

Comcast is already locked in due to a prior agreement. In fact, I wonder if that's what the merger is about. I also wonder if Obama would use the net neutrality ruling to do what he's always wanted to do and create a free high speed internet as a federal project. This may be the catalyst he needs to make it happen. We'll see, but there's a lot more to this than meets the eye.

Obama and the FCC chairman are dedicated to net neutrality. Obama and the current chairman created this law and have enforced it. This isn't about Obama or the Chairman wanting what the corporations want. This is about the corporations suing the Obama administration for writing a law that protected the American citizen. The Open Internet, or net neutrality law didn't exist under Bush. Think about that. You're bashing the person who created net neutrality in the first place for having the law challenged in court. C'mon...And by the way everyone who is screaming about a revolving door...Obama made rules about who could leave his office and go back to work in the private sector. I'm not sure of the details, but there is a waiting period for many positions so he wouldn't have the revolving door issue.