Obama saves net neutrality, orders broadband be classified as vital service

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I'm pleasantly surprised that he's taking a stand to do the right thing.

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Ugh.

I don't really know what "net neutrality" is but I am under the impression it limits the ability of the government to restrict the internet so this is bad news. What ever happened to Liberman's kill-switch? We need that.

Nope, net neutrality kind of implies regulation. Ironically, there are a lot of libertarian types for net neutrality.

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Question for you all:

Suppose that hamburgers were classified as a vital service, and a policy of "hamburger neutrality" were imposed. Instead of McDonalds, Wendy's, In-N-Out etc. being able to sell hamburgers a la carte in the quantity the customer wants to eat, it would instead be legally mandated that each customer pay a flat fee in exchange for access to buffet, where each customer would be entitled to take as many hamburgers as he or she wants.

1. Do you think this will decrease, or increase, the cost of going out for burgers to the average person? By a lot, or a little?

2. Do you think that this will increase, or decrease, the typical quality of hamburgers? Will the quality of burger joints' customer service increase, or decrease?

I don't think net neutrality implies buffet / unmetered Internet. It does imply that if it is metered, that it's metered the same way whether you're using NetFlix or Streampix on Comcast.

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FCC chair says he cares more about the telecom companies he lobbied for than what the fool who nominated him says.

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We the taxpayers paid the corrupt Big Telecom companies $200 billion, and they didn't give us sh**t. We first paid for the Internet when we gave them $200 billion of taxpayer money. We then paid for it again when we pay the high monthly fees that Comcast charges. Then they want companies like Netflix to pay for the Internet a 3rd time. Oh yeah, they have a 97% profit margin.

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