Obama says FCC should reclassify internet as a utility

[Xithras]

61. Giving Republicans the ability to regulate the Internet without going through Congress....

...could end up being much worse for us in the long haul.

The FCC can impose regulations at will and with only token public input, at the directive of whomever is in the White House at the moment. The only way they can be overridden is to either take them to court and prove that the regulations are unconstitutional, or to get Congress to pass a bill to override them (which would require the signature of the very White House that ordered the regulations...not going to happen).

If you're telling me that the only way we can get Net Neutrality is to place the entire Internet under the absolute control of some politician and bureaucrats, then we're fucked either way.

And it's a joke to think that the media companies won't just grease a few Republican palms to have the FCC pass new regs authorizing packet prioritization the next time they get power anyway. If one White House has the power to arbitrarily impose net neutrality, the next one has the right to impose new regs giving them the ability to remove it. Only this time, instead of calling your congressperson to complain about the bill, you won't get a voice at all, because unlike your congressperson, the FCC doesn't answer to voters.