WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday dove head-first into the heated net neutrality debate, urging the Federal Communications Commission to adopt "the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality" by aggressively regulating Internet service providers like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T.
"We cannot allow Internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas," Obama said in a video posted on the White House website
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I can see restrictions already on internet usage with limits by satellite internet companies. Cell phone browsers have limits so is the internet access going to be reserved for the big payers?
by G. Diane Nelson Trotter 6 years ago
Is net neutrality having a negative impact on the economy? Is it better for Internet providers to provide faster services discriminantly?
by David Patrick 6 years ago
I really hope the FCC does not take away net neutrality. Could content sites like HubPages be negatively affected if the FCC repeals net neutrality regulations? From what I fathom so far, having no net neutrality could effect independent media, applications like Netflixe, and ISPs like Verizon...
by Arthur Fontes 14 years ago
How many people support the administration taking over the internet. Wouldn't that be wonderful?Let them silence dissidents Hooray!!Conform to the ideology or else. As the sheeple lay prone at the feet of the great deceiver.
by tobey100 13 years ago
Just last month the Federal Communications Commission did what a federal court informed them they did not have the authority to do, they voted to set up regulations for the internet and gave their initiative a placid little name, "Net Neutrality". Way back in the summer of 2010 the...
by AnnCee 13 years ago
President Chavez is creating a parallel bank, health and education programs, and a parallel to CNN - Telesur. The left-wing theory of creating parallel powers to break down and end the old order is taken to new breathtaking heights. The parallels are working - illiteracy has been exterminated and...
by Spacey Gracey 13 years ago
......at a family party you spend half an hour boring your dad to death trying to explain the difference between internet marketing and newspaper advertising. He works for local press and thinks the internet might be the future - wow I've got a lot of work to do on him . Nice to feel like an expert...
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