They’re not even finished mopping up the mess from last Tuesday, but the Obama administration and others are going all in to support net neutrality:
FACT: President Obama is urging the @FCC to prevent internet service providers from blocking legal online content → http://t.co/3y3YLQD6MB
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) November 10, 2014
I applaud President Obama’s leadership on #NetNeutrality. We must ensure fair & equal access to the Internet! http://t.co/g87LMKT67c
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) November 10, 2014
Great #NetNeutrality plan from @WhiteHouse to keep the internet open and free. Read about it here: http://t.co/pIWKFe4djr
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) November 10, 2014
Glad Pres. Obama agrees @FCC should reclassify broadband Internet service under Title II of Telecommunications Act–a commonsense solution.
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) November 10, 2014
Obama has corporate supporters as well:
An open and free Internet is for everyone. President @BarackObama, thanks for supporting Net Neutrality http://t.co/wMkWDE64A7
— Etsy (@Etsy) November 10, 2014
President Obama supports #NetNeutrality — and you should, too. https://t.co/AfmfqBuSHq
— Vimeo (@Vimeo) November 10, 2014
Pres. @BarackObama agrees: consumers should pick winners and losers on the Internet, not broadband gatekeepers. http://t.co/5PQdm7hiOo
— Netflix (@netflix) November 10, 2014
Government involvement will make it more “open and free”?
Senator Ted Cruz says otherwise:
"Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) November 10, 2014
Cruz really opened a can of worms with that statement among people who believe federal government involvement could possibly help make anything faster and cheaper:
@SenTedCruz: Net Neutrality is Obamacare for Internet is like saying free markets are Obamacare for capitalism. You can't be that clueless?
— Liberal Art (@liberalart) November 10, 2014
@SenTedCruz that rhetoric wouldn't pass 8th grade debate club. Affordable access for all seems good. And you admit gov is slow & useless?
— Jesse Vigil (@jesseRvigil) November 10, 2014
.@SenTedCruz This is just dumb. Are you dumb?
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) November 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/StabelliA/status/531849746575794176
@AndyRichter @SenTedCruz Oh Andy he is way past dumb, past stupid and coming up on brain dead!!
— Andie (@andiewv) November 10, 2014
@SenTedCruz You're already ruining the country, leave the internet alone please.
— Daniel Hubschman (@dhubs1) November 10, 2014
You, sir, are stupid. RT @SenTedCruz "Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of gov't.
— themidgetmen (@themidgetmen) November 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/devincf/status/531849559581163520
.@SenTedCruz Are you really this dumb? P.S. You forgot to mention Benghazi. #dogwhistle
— Amy Bradley-Hole ???? (@amybhole) November 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/531850768383754240
Cruz was mocked, but suffice to say not everybody believes that the federal government can speed things up and make them cheaper:
We'll save the internet from big evil corporations, says $4 trillion, 6 million worker leviathan with nuclear weapons http://t.co/H0Q8W17pr4
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/531877667952660480
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/531878232954785793
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/531880129732313088
More big gov: Admin wants Internet regulated same as utilities http://t.co/Rbk01qr2Ge
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 10, 2014
.@DLoesch Ahh, more gov't is always the solution to our problems, whether those problems actually exist or not.
— Coronapocalypse! ™️ (@NuclearHerbs) November 10, 2014
@DLoesch Sensing a new Czar on the horizon. And more tax $. Got to find more ways to grow govt.
— livingmybeachlife (@dilavoie45) November 10, 2014
Hey, you want to fuck up the internet? Have the government get involved. #NetNeutrality
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 10, 2014
Exactly. Keep gov out of it. RT @netflix Pres. @BarackObama agrees: consumers should pick winners and losers on the Internet
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 10, 2014
The cost of getting internet service has been steadily declining for years. The minute the govt gets involved that will end. #NetNeutrailty
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 10, 2014
Reducing the Internet to a public utility is just the thing to break Obama's approval ratings down into the 20s.
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/531838125300273152
@instapundit What Obama is really about: control. Last week it was health care. This week, the internet. http://t.co/89v1lQPGz9
— Roger Kimball (@rogerkimball) November 10, 2014
Begin to cringe, because this might be just around the corner:
"If you like your current Internet Provider, you can KEEP your Internet Provider. PERIOD!"
— Don Surber (@donsurber) November 10, 2014
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