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rob05c · 3875 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why Comcast Will Be Allowed to Buy Time Warner Cable and Kill Net Neutrality.
Net Neutrality isn't dying, it's dead. Wheeler has redefined "Net Neutrality" to mean "Not Net Neutrality." War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that it would propose new rules that allow companies like Disney, Google or Netflix to pay Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon for special, faster lanes to send video and other content to their customers.
Tom Wheeler, the F.C.C. chairman, defended the agency’s plans late Wednesday, saying speculation that the F.C.C. was “gutting the open Internet rule” is “flat out wrong.”
Mr. Wheeler rebuffed such criticism. “There is no ‘turnaround in policy,’ ”