Rep. Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the committe that oversees telecommunications was leaked on yesterday. Now we have a copy of Waxman’s plan to subvert Net Neutrality. Copy of the leaked Bill (in legalese) not yet submitted to congress. Leak Source is techdailydose.nationaljournal.com
Let’s say the internet is made of tubes. This bill gives the tube companies license to start selling premium tubes. Big shiny tubes. However anyone with the misfortune not to partner with the tube company will find themselves stuck in the smaller, collapsing tube system.
For example, Google partnered with the Verizon tube company to use it’s new tubes. Anyone trying to compete with Google, simply won’t be able to.
Waxman, is teaching Republicans a thing or two about whoring for Telecom money. Waxman’s bill would prevent the FCC from enforcing the most important part of net neutrality, that is, standard tube size. The corporate johns, pumping Waxman up with corporate cash, know that there is money to be made here. Read on for an example.
Take a quick description of the streaming video industry, currently in a growth phase. thx dailytech.com
35.7 billion people watched video online in June (up from 19.5 billion in 2009)
Hmmm, exponentially growing by 80 percent or 16 billion people. Yeah. that’s where the money is.
For telecommunications companies to take what used to be public tubes, and twist them into private corporate piggy banks, You need traitorous turncoats like Henry Waxman to sell us out. I would say, fuck you Waxman, but Indeed, he’s already fucked us all.
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Jason’s blog on the same thing from just a few days ago
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/72549
hope the blog is readable, I tend to skip over things that i forget newbs don’t know .
Some more to do, call speaker Pelosi and DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen and tell them to stop this bill:
https://act.boldprogressives.org/cms/view_by_page_id/1449/
Thanks marinara for keeping up on this!
The Dems. are lying to us on this one just as they did on the Public Option. I’m sure ObamaRahma has already sold us out on this one just like every other rotten secret deal this gang of grifters has pulled off.
Is Waxman aware that he is despised by probably 90% of the people in his district and across the country and were it not for the artificial choice system of our two parties=one party system he would be nowhere near the levers of power? HE IS ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC PARTY WHORE WHO HATES AMERICA. Someone on his staff should pull him aside and tell him. What a joke America is. What a joke. Waxman is responsible as much as anybody. What a stupid look he wears on his face. Gosh how ever do these full bore tools like Waxman get such high opinions of themselves??? It seems painfully obvious that with a lot of these professional Democratic whores that what we are seeing is self-loathing morphing into loathing of We The People. I really do think that Waxman hates himself. As does Frank. As does Obama. As does Emanuel. As does Biden. The best ones all leave government and we are left with these shits.
Turn over the Internet to the Postal Service and grant every communication the same legal protections as First Class mail. Give the USPS first pick of all available spectrum and treat the infrastructure the way we do highways. Spell out the benefits to business, job seekers, etc.
Corporations will gnaw away at net neutrality as long as there is no downside to doing so. They may not get everything they want this year. But they will eventually.
An Opposition has to change the dynamic from “net-neutrality-vs-no-net-neutrality” to “net-neutrality-vs-no-telcos-or-broadcasters”. Net neutrality has to look like a last best offer rather than a starting point.
David Dayden goes into great depth.
http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/09/28/will-tea-party-movement-ignorantly-look-gift-net-neutrality-legislation-in-the-mouth/
man the guy must have sources i could only dream about