Why the FCC Is Ditching Net Neutrality

[pbmus]

Late last month, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it would propose new rules allowing companies like Netflix or Google to pay internet service providers (ISPs) like Verizon or Comcast for faster data lanes to deliver video and other content to their customers. In other words, the FCC was proposing to replace net neutrality—the egalitarian internet that we all know—with a pay-to-play platform designed to favor the biggest and richest players.

The backlash online was so huge, swift, and predictable that one might wonder what the hell the FCC bureaucrats were thinking. Could a handful of powerful companies really matter more to the commission than pretty much everybody else who uses the internet? The charts below show how a few wealthy special interests wield huge sway within the FCC, particularly with regard to the net neutrality debate. But first, a quick refresher on what net neutrality means:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/charts-why-fcc-ditching-net-neutrality

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Why is the FCC ditching net neutrality ??

[PumpkinAle]

1. For the profit of a few

and to the detriment of many.

Remember money is now king and those that hold the purse strings are getting what they paid for and to hell with the little people.

[msongs]

2. so who appointed this corporate stooge to the FCC in the first place. doh nt

[Egnever]

3. well considering the companies mentioned

In the fist paragraph have all uniformly coke out against the proposed rules I am going to have a hard time reading much further.