Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The internet just scored a major victory”.
Today, history is being made by a majority of this commission, as we vote for a fast, fair and open Internet. So today was a big day. We saw title 2 as the new Authority for an open Internet municipal. Broadband cannot be banned by local legislators and the FCC has really great taste in funk.
Music today was pretty incredible. We got to watch the FCC debate, its new rules for the open Internet and I cleaned out my entire email inbox during the two, lengthy and very detailed tie rates given by the Republican members yeah. They knew they had no chance here.
It was already decided, and so they really took their time in explaining why they did not like net neutrality. But I was fine because the rest of the Commission gave much briefer speeches kind of outlining the reasons that we’ve heard over the past. You know year about how important and neutrality is to protecting economic opportunities and diversity of voices in the internet yeah. It felt to me, like the breakup talk. You know if you know it’s coming, but you want to make sure you hide your say. They really just needed to get it off their chest and then Tom wheeler could not stop banging that gavel. Ya know there was a lot of excitement when he finally said the eyes have it and now the rules were in place. The you know the room broke into applause, which probably doesn’t happen all that often at FCC meetings yeah, it was a funky start and a really great finish. I thought the rules of the professor this month are now official they’re going to go in place, establishes really important that neutrality rules a lot of what advocates have been pushing for we’ve got internet providers and not allowed to block websites or apps or services, and I’ll Have to throttle any of those either and there’s no paid fast lanes. The boogieman of you know this internet, where the ISPs are controlling what you see or what arrives at your home. Is it better to access as easier access as faster access is now off the table? We didn’t have that to a huge extent right now, but there were signs of companies doing this stuff, and this is going to prevent any of that from happening in a major way, and the Federal Communications Commission now has the tools it needs to prevent companies from Doing those things when or should they try to do this right? So the Democrats talked about this in terms of the Internet has been this great economic engine. We invented it.
It’S like a point of pride and we’re going to protect it and the Republicans basically said the opposite. Yeah the Republican said this is government, overreach, etc, etc. New taxes yeah this is gon na go awful for the internet, no business. Members right, you can pretty much guess what they said and the reality is the FCC has done its part. Now the ISPs are probably going to get them back in court they’ll file, some lawsuits, just like we saw before with Comcast and AT .