I did the rerouting through google. Thanks. We saw this 9 months ago that this guy was useless. I just never imagined he would switch sides so easily and then prostitute himself publicly. Google must have really found something when they searched his browsing history and turned it over to Obama’s Democratic handlers.
Rory From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Broadwick Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 9:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] This Is Your FCC on Drugs http://www.wsj.com/articles/holman-jenkins-this-is-your-fcc-on-drugs-1423266942 One thing the Federal Communications Commission’s latest effort will not supply is a resolution of the net-neutrality debate, which will go on and on at much higher cost to all involved. Telecom lawyers will be eyeing bigger yachts. Another thing it won’t accomplish is faster broadband speeds. The share prices of the alleged broadband “monopolists” Comcast and Verizon rose this week, seemingly untroubled by the prospect of utility regulation. That should surprise no one. Regulatory uncertainty tends to freeze industry structure in place, helping the currently dominant to remain dominant. It emerged that Google had been quietly opposing the administration’s re-regulatory agenda. Not so quietly so was the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association. Both are the opposite of cable monopolists, hoping (at least until this week) to bring increasing competition to broadband markets. Comcast’s merger with Time Warner Cable is probably unsalvageable. This may not be such good news either. A whirl of mergers and spinoffs has constantly reshaped the broadband sector over the past 15 years, and every deal was greeted with suspicion by the media. Yet, during the same period, average Internet speeds rose 196-fold. Last year, according to Akamai, broadband speeds were up an impressive 21%. Don’t expect the gains to come as fast when Washington’s re-regulatory animus is weighing on industry vitality. But Tom “Ten Thumbs” Wheeler, the FCC chief, assures us all will be well. Under the administration’s new policy, he will plumb the 1934 telephone regulatory act for a few odds and ends to fix the non-problem of net neutrality, and then he will refrain from imposing 99% of the law’s content. “To preserve incentives,” he says, “there will be no rate regulation, no tariffs, no last-mile unbundling.” Except he has no power to make such promises, or to prevent future FCC chiefs and Washington’s activist armies from charging through the door he just opened. Indeed, Mr. Wheeler’s Wired.com article, in which he announced his new regulatory plan, is instructive mostly in the techniques of self-deception. He claims that private reflection, not bullying from President Obama and HBO comedian John Oliver, led him to change his mind and embrace utility regulation. (Note to politicians: Try to lie plausibly.) He cites as a source of wisdom a million-plus spam emails forwarded to the FCC by Mr. Oliver’s audience, whom sensible persons wouldn’t trust for an accurate rendition of the time of day. Were he in a more truthful mood, Mr. Wheeler would note that President Obama urged him toward utility regulation not because Mr. Obama gives two hoots about net neutrality—but because of the issue’s proven capacity to rile up tweet-addled millennials Mr. Obama wants a political issue, period—preferably one that will generate lobbying fees and campaign donations for years to come. Mr. Wheeler’s most peculiar assertion concerns NABU Network, a company he briefly led in the 1980s. He appears to have convinced himself he was bested by America Online only because meanie cable companies relegated him to a “closed” network. In fact, NABU itself was a “closed” system, allowing users of NABU’s proprietary home computer to tap only games and software created by NABU. It failed not because of recalcitrant cable operators, but because it was a lousy alternative to even non-networked computers like the Apple II or Commodore 64 and their growing lists of independent software titles. What’s more, NABU’s creator, John Kelly, couldn’t have been clearer that he was rejecting the interactivity that would later characterize the Internet: “The objective was to make two-way communications unnecessary.” Mr. Wheeler appears to delude himself about many things. But the most important is that his surrender of his “independent” agency to President Obama’s political control will produce anything but bureaucratic stagnation for the U.S. Internet access sector. Regards, Jeff Jeff Broadwick Senior Account Manager, Convergence Technologies, Inc. [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 312-205-2519 Office 574-220-7826 Cell From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 9:59 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] This Is Your FCC on Drugs http://ow.ly/IF11U Such great quotes from this include: Telecom lawyers will be eyeing bigger yachts. Tom “Ten Thumbs” Wheeler Note to politicians: Try to lie plausibly. He cites as a source of wisdom a million-plus spam emails forwarded to the FCC by Mr. Oliver’s audience, whom sensible persons wouldn’t trust for an accurate rendition of the time of day. Mr. Wheeler appears to delude himself about many things. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com
