Great News For Net Neutrality: Trump Selects Ajit Pai To Head FCC
Jan 28, 2017 12:14:04 #
Great News For Net Neutrality: Trump Selects Ajit Pai To Head FCC
http://republicbroadcasting.org/news/great-news-for-net-neutrality-trump-selects-ajit-pai-to-head-fcc/
Source: Activist Post | Op-Ed by Lily Dane
On Monday, President Trump selected Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commission’s senior Republican member, to head the FCC, and the mainstream media lost its collective mind.
Various media outlets are reporting that Pai wants to “destroy” net neutrality, is an “obstructionist,” is “critical of basic privacy online,” and plans to “dismantle net neutrality.”
Nothing could be further from the t***h.
To fully understand what Pai’s stance on “net neutrality” actually is, we need to clear up the confusion that has been surrounding the term for years.
Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutrality
In November 2014, net neutrality became the subject of much heated debate among politicians and the public after then-president Barack Obama announced that he wanted to “keep the internet free and open” for everyone.
Obama wanted to push the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to implement rules for net neutrality, and in his plea he used terms like “fairness” and “freedom.” He expressed the need for more government control to ensure equal Internet access for everyone.
He claimed that abandoning the principles of net neutrality “would threaten to end the Internet as we know it.”
*****Whenever a politician talks about “more government control,” “fairness,” and “rules,” I become skeptical, which I think is a healthy and rational response, considering how much the US government has turned into a massive control freak.
It turns out, my skepticism was warranted...
http://republicbroadcasting.org/news/great-news-for-net-neutrality-trump-selects-ajit-pai-to-head-fcc/
Source: Activist Post | Op-Ed by Lily Dane
On Monday, President Trump selected Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commission’s senior Republican member, to head the FCC, and the mainstream media lost its collective mind.
Various media outlets are reporting that Pai wants to “destroy” net neutrality, is an “obstructionist,” is “critical of basic privacy online,” and plans to “dismantle net neutrality.”
Nothing could be further from the t***h.
To fully understand what Pai’s stance on “net neutrality” actually is, we need to clear up the confusion that has been surrounding the term for years.
Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutrality
In November 2014, net neutrality became the subject of much heated debate among politicians and the public after then-president Barack Obama announced that he wanted to “keep the internet free and open” for everyone.
Obama wanted to push the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to implement rules for net neutrality, and in his plea he used terms like “fairness” and “freedom.” He expressed the need for more government control to ensure equal Internet access for everyone.
He claimed that abandoning the principles of net neutrality “would threaten to end the Internet as we know it.”
*****Whenever a politician talks about “more government control,” “fairness,” and “rules,” I become skeptical, which I think is a healthy and rational response, considering how much the US government has turned into a massive control freak.
It turns out, my skepticism was warranted...
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