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In reply to the discussion: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet (updated headline) [View all]leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)their congress critter, that got us our background check so that.... oh wait we didnt get that. oh wait i have one remember how we all wrote to our Congress that money wasnt speech and that's what saved us from citizens united and .... oh oops well ok those were bad examples but surely the fcc would heed the words from their colleagues
A group of 11 United States Senators told him Friday that rules allowing companies to pay an Internet service provider for express-lane access to consumers, as the rules are widely expected to do, would violate the principle of an open Internet
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/a-tough-stretch-for-tom-wheeler-on-net-neutrality/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0#
Not long after FCC Commissioner Jennifer Rosenworcel asked agency chair Tom Wheeler to delay bringing his controversial net neutrality proposal to the table next week, another commissioner has also come out against the plan. "I have grave concerns about the Chairman's proposal on Internet regulation and do not believe that it should be considered at the Commission's May meeting," said Ajit Pai in a short statement
while im all for writing your congress critters they will say that the president appoints these people and there's nothing they can do about it. potus is going to stick it to you like we stuck it to him in 2010