Net Neutrality Welcome to the Rulebook. We are from the Government and we are here to help you!?!?!?

Posted by woodlema 9 years ago to Government
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Well, don't you love how they legislate and regulate control. THEN make it possible for the total corruption within that same legislation and regulation. Page 58, Paragraph 130:

130. Under our longstanding waiver rule, the Commission may waive any rule “in whole or in
part, for good cause shown.”312 General waiver of the Commission’s rules is appropriate only if special
circumstances warrant a deviation from the general rule, and such a deviation will serve the public
interest.313 In some cases, however, the Commission adopts specific rules concerning the factors that will
be used to examine a waiver or exemption request.314 We believe that such guidance is appropriate here
to make clear the very limited circumstances in which the Commission would be willing to allow paid
prioritization. Accordingly, we adopt a rule concerning waiver of the paid prioritization ban that
establishes a balancing test, as follows:
The Commission may waive the ban on paid prioritization only if the petitioner
demonstrates that the practice would provide some significant public interest benefit and
would not harm the open nature of the Internet.
173. Out of an abundance of caution, we grant a temporary exemption for these providers,
with the potential for that exemption to become permanent. It is unclear, however, how best to delineate
the boundaries of this exception. Clearly, it should include those providers likely to be most
disproportionately affected by new disclosure requirements. ACA “acknowledge[s] that Congress and the
Commission have defined ‘small’ in various ways.”429 One metric to which ACA points is the approach
that the Commission used in its 2013 Rural Call Completion Order, which excepted providers with
100,000 or fewer subscriber lines, aggregated across all affiliates, from certain recordkeeping, retention,
and reporting rules.430 We adopt this definition for purposes of the temporary exemption that we adopt
today. Accordingly, we hereby adopt a temporary exemption from the enhancements to the transparency
rule for those providers of broadband Internet access service (whether fixed or mobile) with 100,000 or fewer broadband subscribers as per their most recent Form 477, aggregated over all the providers’ affiliates.

We believe that the enhanced
requirements adopted herein are incremental in nature, but nevertheless necessary to provide end-user
consumers, edge providers, and the Internet community with better information about the critical network performance metrics, practices, and commercial terms that have a direct impact on their use of the
network. Customers of small broadband providers have an equal need for this information. However, out
of an abundance of caution, we grant a temporary exemption for small providers, with the potential for
that exemption to become permanent.168 We note that all providers of broadband Internet access service,
including small providers, remain subject to the existing transparency rule adopted in 2010.


Well for any of you who, in your infinite wisdom, thought this would be good in any way, shape or form. YOU WERE WRONG!!! the government CANNOT BE TRUSTED!!!!!
SOURCE URL: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0312/FCC-15-24A1.pdf


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  • Posted by SaltyDog 9 years ago
    No question at all in my mind as to whether or not the government can be trusted,

    My question is this...the call to arms for this piece of regulation is 'to protect consumers'. It says so in it's opening sentence. Has anyone here either themselves or know of anyone who has been a victim of abuses so egregious as to make this necessary? I know that I haven't. So why are these bureaucrats being permitted this naked power grab? Where are the Congressional watchdogs?

    As Juvenal wrote, "Who will guard the guards themselves?".
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    • Posted by 9 years ago
      All I can say is to repeat the ONLY course of action becoming available to "We The People..."

      This is a by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

      This is why the second amendment IS the Second Amendment.

      Text of the 2nd Amendment
      A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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