Seton Motley
The Daily Caller
5/5/2014
The Barack Obama Administration is back at it — yet another big government power grab is in the works.
The Administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) again resurrecting Network Neutrality — an all-encompassing Internet usurpation twice unanimously killed by court as an illegal overreach.
Net Neutrality III does in fact acknowledge and allow for a basic economic precept: If you use more, you pay more.
It will allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to charge bandwidth hogs like Netflix and Google (owner of YouTube) for the Web-exploding bandwidth they use:
Netflix and YouTube Make Up Majority of US Internet Traffic
Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America
Video Viewing on Netflix Accounts for Up to 30 Percent of Online Traffic
Right now, all of us — including non-Netflix and non-YouTube users — subsidize their massive profit-models. Changing this, of course, upsets them…
…If these leftist bad actors had their way, the government would mandate that gas stations charge the same price for empty Escalades and Escorts.
Their reaction is part knee-jerk response to anything less than total government command-and-control, and part political theater. Their screeching — combined with our reasonable objection to this third attempt at massive government overreach — allows FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to say, See — both sides are angry with me. My proposal must be reasonable…
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