[Boatanchors] Internet taxes and regulation

[Dennis DuVall]

All,

  Wheeler wants to end net neutrality and authorize cable and phone  
companies to discriminate among websites and charge Web giants for  
"fast lanes" while keeping the rest of us in a slow lane,  his  
propaganda pieces listed below notwithstanding.
For more see: <http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/05/fcc_chairman_tom_wheeler_s_lame_excuses_for_his_net_neutrality_proposal.html 
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What is this doing on this forum in any case?

Dennis DuVall, W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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On Feb 11, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Jim Wiley wrote:

> List members -
>
> Sent with list owners permission.  (I asked first)
>
> Warning:  Your government (yeah,  mine too) is getting set to give  
> you the shaft, again.  And I don't mean the one connected to a  
> volume control or tuning knob.
>
> Perhaps you are saying "so what?"   Why could I possibly I care  
> about this?   I guarantee you that this is NOT a political diatribe  
> designed to favor one party or another - it affects all of us.
>
> Please go to the links below for a series of PDF documents to read  
> that give all of us warning of the current administrations plans to  
> regulate the Internet. This is another "We have to pass the bill  
> before we can see what is in the bill" moment.
>
> FCC Commissioners Pai and O'Reilly, among others, are a couple of  
> the voices we as citizens have (at the FCC) who actually make some  
> sense. Believe it or not, the FCC does actually try to look out for  
> us - or at least some of the commissioners do.
>
> Please -  Add any comments you think are pertinent, and forward this  
> message (or write your own version) and send it to your state and  
> federal Senators, Congressmen, and friends. Wehave an opportunityto  
> quash this idiot plan before it gets "roots", but we need to act.
>
>
> Here are a few documents from various FCC commissionersthat will  
> open your eyes.
>
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0206/DOC-331907A1.pdf
>
> The above message came out about a week ago.  It was followed today  
> by these:
>
> https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-331958A1.pdf
>
> https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-331957A1.pdf
>
> https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-331986A1.pdf
>
>
>
> - Jim Wiley, KL7CC
>
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