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Ben Swann 4/14/2015 Republicans in the House of Representatives this week made a legislative move to override the Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules. Fourteen Republicans, led by Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, filed a resolution disapproving of new FCC regulations banning Internet service providers (ISPs) from segregating Web traffic based on speed and price, […] April 14th, 2015 | Tags: Internet Service Providers, net neutrality, Rep. Doug Collins, Title II of the Telecommunications Act, Tom Wheeler | Category: Congress, FCC, federal regulations, Internet, legislation | Comments are closed
Jon Street The Blaze 3/17/2015 FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told members of Congress Tuesday that the White House did not pressure the agency into passing new internet rules, but one Republican congressman is honing in on two words contained in an email from last year that could indicate just the opposite. Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) […] March 17th, 2015 | Tags: lies, net neutrality, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Rep. Jody Hice, Telecommunications Act of 1996, Title II of the Telecommunications Act, Tom Wheeler, transparency | Category: Barack Obama, FCC, Internet, Taxes | Comments are closed
Peter Fricke The Daily Caller 2/27/2015 After casting a futile vote against the FCC’s plan to regulate the Internet as a public utility, Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai delivered a blistering attack on the new rules. In his dissenting statement, Pai advanced three main objections to the Commission’s “Open Internet Order:” 1. The Internet has grown […] February 27th, 2015 | Tags: Ajit Pai, Ford Foundation, Internet Service Providers, net neutrality, public utilities, Robert McChesney, Title II of the Telecommunications Act | Category: FCC, federal regulations, George Soros, Internet, Marxism, Politics, Progressives, Taxes, technology | Comments are closed
Nick Gillespie Reason.com 2/19/2015 Speaking at the Code/Media conference in California, entrepreneur Mark Cuban—who made his pile selling Broadcast.com back in the day—told his audience that allowing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet in the name of Net Neutrality (or anything else) will “fuck everything up.” He continued: “Having them overseeing the […] February 23rd, 2015 | Tags: Ajit Pai, Ford Foundation, innovation, Internet Service Providers, Mark Cuban, Net, net neutrality, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Thomas Hazlett, Title II of the Telecommunications Act, Tom Wheeler, transparency | Category: FCC, federal regulations, Internet, technology | Comments are closed
Erica Ritz The Blaze 2/9/2015 Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse says the term “net neutrality” is misleading, and what the Obama administration’s proposal would really do is create a “department of the Internet.” “This is like the Fairness Doctrine for the Internet, where the government will decide what is neutral,” Sasse said on Glenn Beck’s radio […] February 9th, 2015 | Tags: "Fairness Doctrine", Ajit Pai, bureaucracy, FOIA, Jason Leopold, net neutrality, public utilities, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Sen. Ben Sasse, Title II of the Telecommunications Act, Tom Wheeler | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, FCC, federal regulations, Internet, TAKE ACTION!, Taxes | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey Hot Air 2/6/2015 Call it the largest plan for government regulation that no one can read — at least, the largest in almost five years. This time, though, even Congress can’t read it yet, even if they were so inclined. The plan comes from FCC chair Tom Wheeler, and it imposes Barack Obama’s […] February 6th, 2015 | Tags: Ajit Pai, broadband, competition, innovation, monopoly, net neutrality, Title II of the Telecommunications Act, Tom Wheeler | Category: Barack Obama, FCC, federal regulations, Internet, Taxes | Comments are closed
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