By Don Reisinger and Roger Cheng
President Obama urged the US government to adopt tighter regulations on broadband service in an effort to preserve “a free and open Internet.”
In a statement released Monday, Obama called on the Federal Communications Commission to enforce the principle of treating all Internet traffic the same way, known in shorthand as Net neutrality. That means treating broadband services like utilities, the president said, so that Internet service providers would be unable “to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.”
Related Reading:
The FCC Fires Back At the President’s Net Neutrality Plan
Obama Wants to Now Fully Regulate the Internet as a Public Utility
‘Outrage Obama Wants To Regulate Internet’
‘Martin Armstrong – US proposed regulation of Internet veiled threat to free speech”
http://talkdigitalnetwork.com/2014/11/outrage-obama-wants-to-regulate-internet/
At the birth of radio anyone could broadcast at any power, anywhere, expressing anything. Put under regulation by the FCC ostensibly because radio signals were overlapping and interfering with each other, content was also restricted and radio station ownership became an invitation only community. Television was put under the FCC’s control for similar reasons and with the same results: limiting content while ownership became exclusively a game for big money. I have always believed that an internet connection should be treated as another utility. But I was surprised to read according to Martin Armstrong, calling the internet a “utility” will be the vehicle for FCC regulation of standards and content also. The government wants one more dangerous means of free expression to be quietly muzzled just like all the preceding revolutionary opportunities to spread ideas. Nothing is what it seems I guess.