QuoteTechFreedom held a fireside chat on Feb. 27th with two FCC commissioners, Ajit Pai and Mike O'Rielly, and the two of them concurred that the new regulations are far-reaching, largely unchecked and pose a threat to consumer bills and to innovation in the industry.

Ajit Pai openly questioned what the problem was, saying, "There's never been a systemic analysis of what the problem with the Internet is. In this order, you see scattered niche examples [Comcast and BitTorrent, Apple and FaceTime, others] all of which were resolved, mind you, through private sector initiatives." He continued, saying that the FCC's net neutrality regulatory regime is a solution that won't work in search of a problem that doesn't exist."  Essentially, this is, contrary to the assertion of activists and others, a vaguely justified power grab by a government agency.

Mike O'Rielly added, in a bit of humor that "there is a problem, and it's the document we adopted [Feb. 26]." Neither of them were reticent in explaining exactly how and why the document was the problem. For one, the document was, as Commissioner Pai pointed out, written to solve a problem that wasn't readily apparent. O'Rielly said the document is "guilt by imagination, trying to guess what will go wrong in the future"; instead of tackling a readily apparent and current issue, the FCC proposal is instead stumbling forward, trying to find future, hypothetical transgressions to retroactively justify its own regulations.

QuoteCommissioner Pai summed it up best: "This issue has been largely fact-free for the better part of a decade, and I think it's frankly shocking that decision-making on something as important as this has been thrown by the wayside in favor of what I consider to be an ideological agenda."

The net may be "neutral" but the FCC is most certainly not.

http://watchdog.org/203631/fcc-commissioners-regulations/

All an attempt to control the free flow of information. The internet has been the real pain in this administration side. Most of Obama scandals became uncontrollable WHERE? This could be really bad!

Quote from: redbeard on March 04, 2015, 05:20:00 PM
http://watchdog.org/203631/fcc-commissioners-regulations/

All an attempt to control the free flow of information. The internet has been the real pain in this administration side. Most of Obama scandals became uncontrollable WHERE? This could be really bad!

Could be bad? I think it's already bad. I think it's almost beyond comprehension that the FCC could do what they've done. And I think it's proof that some serious adjustments need to be made in the Executive Branch of the federal government.

The Title II regulations the FCC decided to apply to the internet date back to 1934, when dial telephones were new. Any comparison of Ma Bell back then to ISPs today is ludicrous, fantastic, and false on its face.

I have a fairly long list of federal agencies that I think need to vanish. The FCC -- already on my list -- just climbed five or six notches toward the top.

TechFreedom held a fireside chat on Feb. 27th with two FCC commissioners, Ajit Pai and Mike O'Rielly, and the two of them concurred that the new regulations are far-reaching, largely unchecked and pose a threat to consumer bills and to innovation in the industry.