While we’re wading in Benghazi, Cliven Bundy and the loves of Donald Sterling, the FCC is pulling the plug on the internet as we know it, and ensuring it will be a completely different place within the next 25 years! There is nothing to worry about. The changes are a “good thing” and it’s time for the World Wide Web to ‘grow up.’
Even Sparky will become accustomed to an internet with fewer options, where he will have to use his doggie treats to access the web. His doggie pals who access the web more, will have to pay with more doggie treats. That sounds fair!
Oddly, we can’t institute a system of taxes on this principle without a lot of screaming.
Just think. The scourge of promography will be wiped out! There go half of the internet users…Just a guess.
Soon, people will be stopped from uploading
all together and the internet can be a series of channels showing programming at specific times. Hmm…That kinda sounds like – expensive television!
You know, it is unfair that our internet providers can’t charge us for premium websites in the same way HBO charges us for premium channels.
While this scene plays, the FCC runs a banner across the screen:” Help us ban user generated content.”
Good-bye YouTube. So-long Vimeo and private website videos!
While Sparky growls through his lines, we get the picture that he’s not all for these changes, but is speaking under duress.
God Bless the unholy alliance of Time-Warner and Comcast – now empowered by our own FCC.
If you don’t wish to see this happy little breakfast scene become reality, this is the time to speak out. On Thursday, the FCC voted 3-2 to open for public debate new rules meant to guarantee an open Internet. Before the plan becomes final, though, the chairman of the commission, Tom Wheeler, will need to convince his colleagues and an array of powerful lobbying groups that the plan follows the principle of net neutrality, the idea that all content running through t Internet pipes is treated equally
While the rules are meant to prevent Internet providers from knowingly slowing data, they would allow content providers to pay for a guaranteed fast lane of service. Some opponents of the plan, those considered net neutrality purists, argue that allowing some content to be sent along a fast lane would essentially discriminate against other content.
President Obama, who campaigned in 2008 promising to enact net neutrality, said through a spokesman that the administration “will be watching closely as the process moves forward in hopes that the final rule stays true to the spirit of net neutrality.” Full NYTimes article here.