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White House Asks FCC to Classify Internet as a Utility

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Zpike

Nov 10, 2014, 12:24 PM

For the first time

I actually agree with Obama on something. The best way to move forward is to classify ISP's as utilities. I hope the FCC pursues this line of action.
I disagree. More regulations always leads to higher costs and degraded service. Just look at what happened to healthcare, my rates are due to drastically increase this year thanks to Obamacare. This will be another example of the government doing s...
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More regulation and a larger government hardly ever helps. It just opens the door for corruption and govt-sanctioned monopolistic behavior.

Dont give in to the emotional, empty arguments made by people that just want political control.
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Except I would not classify a wireless service provider as an ISP. They are voice providers that offer data as an extra. They not really ISP's like a Comcast. So really this would not help with throttling on a cell phone user. If this does apply t...
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I don't agree with it, because remember when something is called a 'public utility', that means that it automatically becomes subject to a host of government regulations, regulations which basically amount to government control. We tolerate that lev...
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If the only thing they were trying to accomplish was keeping the ISP's from restricting access or charging more for certain sites then I would be ok with this.

But when you read more into it and then go back and use common sense, NOBODY in Washing...
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