{"id":77242,"date":"2015-06-20T20:39:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T00:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:40:39","slug":"gop-ordred-to-gut-fcc-over-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/gop-ordred-to-gut-fcc-over-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Ordred to Gut FCC Over Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOP<\/a>The courts turned down<\/a> big Telecom’s demands to immediately kill Net Neutrality<\/a><\/strong> and somehow the Internet still works. But big Telecom’s House Republican<\/strong> stooges continue their war against consumers and the open Internet<\/strong>. The telecom lackeys have buried riders in a budget bill that would stop the FCC<\/a> from enforcing the Net Neutrally regs<\/strong> until courts decide several challenges.<\/p>\n

According<\/a> to FierceCable<\/a><\/em>, the GOP’s 2016 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, unveiled recently, has three riders buried in the budget rules that:<\/p>\n

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  1. \"riders<\/a>Prevent the FCC from enforcing its net neutrality<\/a> rules, pending what could be years of litigation.<\/li>\n
  2. Cut the FCC budget<\/strong> by $73 million.<\/li>\n
  3. Prohibits the FCC from regulating rates<\/strong> for both wireline and wireless Internet services.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Harold Feld<\/a>, senior VP at Public Knowledge<\/a>, in a responding statement told FierceCable<\/em>:<\/p>\n

    Worst of all, the Appropriations Committee<\/a> ban on FCC enforcement that ‘directly or indirectly’ regulates prices would prevent the FCC from \"ban<\/a>performing even the most basic consumer protection<\/a> action, such as the recent FCC enforcement<\/a> against wireless carriers requiring them to refund charges for services customers did not order or had discontinued.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Public Knowledge VP Feld concludes:<\/p>\n

    The Appropriations Committee would rather declare open season to rob American broadband subscribers with overcharges and ripoffs <\/a>than allow the FCC to do its job.<\/em><\/p>\n

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