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"If You Like Your Internet"... Obama Calls For Regulation To Keep "Internet Open"

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"An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life," begins the President as he explains why the FCC should regulate the internet for Americans' own good:

  • *OBAMA CALLS FOR REGULATING INTERNET LIKE PHONE COMPANIES
  • *OBAMA ASKS FOR 'STRONGEST POSSIBLE RULES' FOR OPEN INTERNET

"The Internet has been one of the greatest gifts our economy — and our society — has ever known," and that's why Obama feels the need to regulate it to "protect an open, accessible, and free Internet."

 

In his own words...

 

Full Statement:

An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life. By lowering the cost of launching a new idea, igniting new political movements, and bringing communities closer together, it has been one of the most significant democratizing influences the world has ever known.

“Net neutrality” has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. That is why today, I am asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to answer the call of almost 4 million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality.

When I was a candidate for this office, I made clear my commitment to a free and open Internet, and my commitment remains as strong as ever. Four years ago, the FCC tried to implement rules that would protect net neutrality with little to no impact on the telecommunications companies that make important investments in our economy. After the rules were challenged, the court reviewing the rules agreed with the FCC that net neutrality was essential for preserving an environment that encourages new investment in the network, new online services and content, and everything else that makes up the Internet as we now know it. Unfortunately, the court ultimately struck down the rules — not because it disagreed with the need to protect net neutrality, but because it believed the FCC had taken the wrong legal approach.

The FCC is an independent agency, and ultimately this decision is theirs alone. I believe the FCC should create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online. The rules I am asking for are simple, common-sense steps that reflect the Internet you and I use every day, and that some ISPs already observe. These bright-line rules include:
 

  • No blocking. If a consumer requests access to a website or service, and the content is legal, your ISP should not be permitted to block it. That way, every player — not just those commercially affiliated with an ISP — gets a fair shot at your business.
  • No throttling. Nor should ISPs be able to intentionally slow down some content or speed up others — through a process often called “throttling” — based on the type of service or your ISP’s preferences.
  • Increased transparency. The connection between consumers and ISPs — the so-called “last mile” — is not the only place some sites might get special treatment. So, I am also asking the FCC to make full use of the transparency authorities the court recently upheld, and if necessary to apply net neutrality rules to points of interconnection between the ISP and the rest of the Internet.
  • No paid prioritization. Simply put: No service should be stuck in a “slow lane” because it does not pay a fee. That kind of gatekeeping would undermine the level playing field essential to the Internet’s growth. So, as I have before, I am asking for an explicit ban on paid prioritization and any other restriction that has a similar effect.

If carefully designed, these rules should not create any undue burden for ISPs, and can have clear, monitored exceptions for reasonable network management and for specialized services such as dedicated, mission-critical networks serving a hospital. But combined, these rules mean everything for preserving the Internet’s openness.

The rules also have to reflect the way people use the Internet today, which increasingly means on a mobile device. I believe the FCC should make these rules fully applicable to mobile broadband as well, while recognizing the special challenges that come with managing wireless networks.

To be current, these rules must also build on the lessons of the past. For almost a century, our law has recognized that companies who connect you to the world have special obligations not to exploit the monopoly they enjoy over access in and out of your home or business. That is why a phone call from a customer of one phone company can reliably reach a customer of a different one, and why you will not be penalized solely for calling someone who is using another provider. It is common sense that the same philosophy should guide any service that is based on the transmission of information — whether a phone call, or a packet of data.

So the time has come for the FCC to recognize that broadband service is of the same importance and must carry the same obligations as so many of the other vital services do. To do that, I believe the FCC should reclassify consumer broadband service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act — while at the same time forbearing from rate regulation and other provisions less relevant to broadband services. This is a basic acknowledgment of the services ISPs provide to American homes and businesses, and the straightforward obligations necessary to ensure the network works for everyone — not just one or two companies.

Investment in wired and wireless networks has supported jobs and made America the center of a vibrant ecosystem of digital devices, apps, and platforms that fuel growth and expand opportunity. Importantly, network investment remained strong under the previous net neutrality regime, before it was struck down by the court; in fact, the court agreed that protecting net neutrality helps foster more investment and innovation. If the FCC appropriately forbears from the Title II regulations that are not needed to implement the principles above — principles that most ISPs have followed for years — it will help ensure new rules are consistent with incentives for further investment in the infrastructure of the Internet.

The Internet has been one of the greatest gifts our economy — and our society — has ever known. The FCC was chartered to promote competition, innovation, and investment in our networks. In service of that mission, there is no higher calling than protecting an open, accessible, and free Internet. I thank the Commissioners for having served this cause with distinction and integrity, and I respectfully ask them to adopt the policies I have outlined here, to preserve this technology’s promise for today, and future generations to come.

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As we concluded previously,

This is truly the American way of censorship. Figure out how those with the deepest pockets can smother the free speech of those with little or no voice on the one medium in which information flow is still treated equally. The nightmare scenario here would be that status quo companies use their funds to price out everyone else. It would kill innovation on the web before it starts. It’s just another example of the status quo attempting to build a moat around itself that we have already seen in so many other areas of the economy.

 

The internet really is the last bastion of freedom and dynamism in the U.S. economy and this proposal could put that at serious risk. Oh, and to make matters worse, the current FCC is filled to the brim with revolving door industry lobbyists.

 

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Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:14 | 5432237 saints51
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What will all the young people do who are unemployed? Barry, you will have a mass of people with lots of free time to do what none of you satanic assholes want to see happen. Those folks will start thinking.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:14 | 5432242 surf0766
Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:15 | 5432244 Dr. Engali
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People will fall for this crap because TPTB have cofused the issue to the point where Joe six pack has no clue what is best for them. As usual they have disguise  fascism like it's the best deal for the consumer. 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:00 | 5432724 Buckaroo Banzai
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Technically, in this case it is communism, because (1) the costs of the internet will be completely socialized by "net neutrality", (2) the door will be opened to massive government censorship, and (3) the last-mile infrastructure buildout--funded by you, against your will-- will promote massive remote surveillance capabilities, finally making Winston Smith's telescreen a reality. Have you ever read the user agreement on modern "smart TVs"? http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/im-terrified-my-new-tv-why-im-scar...

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:16 | 5433021 L Bean
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But it's fascism, when it's the corporations who ultimately profit. NSA et al get nothing but ego boosts.

Just like Obamacare, where it's the insurance co's who are notching up their profits, because of course they WROTE THE DAM BILL.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:16 | 5432246 headhunt
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Anytime the government gets involved they screw it all up.

Translation - let me F' you for your own good.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:18 | 5432259 alexmark2013
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Condi Rice: World isn't listening to US... PAPER: The rest of the world, and China in particular, sees Mr Obama in the opposite light – as a weak leader in the autumn of his presidency.  http://investmentwatchblog.com/condi-rice-world-isnt-listening-to-us-paper-the-rest-of-the-world-and-china-in-particular-sees-mr-obama-in-the-opposite-light-as-a-weak-leader-in-the-autumn-of-his-presidency/
Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:17 | 5432264 TIMBO Anti-Castro
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This clown is poison.  He chokes the life out of commerce. 

 

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:19 | 5432277 a common man
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If it doesn't have a problem, why fix it?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:51 | 5432415 Christophe2
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TPTB have a problem with the internet, so they plan to fix it.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:23 | 5432292 Cacete de Ouro
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What happened to the Barry in the Choomwagon?

Barry, you've turned into a fuckin' tightass asshole. Your only hope is some Choom!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:24 | 5432301 kowalli
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bye bye free internet. I will miss you guys...

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:23 | 5432302 El Gringo
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The nanny-stater control freaks just can leave anything alone.  'Murica... SUCKS.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:24 | 5432304 Dr.Engineer
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Why can't this guy shut up and do his frigging job to govern without turning the US into a Marxist atate?  Is he totally a useless moron or bought by someone or insance or an idealogue (a verion of insanity)?  I really don't know.

Someone get him off the stage and lock him down on a golf course. 

I may be going insane.  i just wondered if Biden would be better or worse.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:28 | 5432322 El Gringo
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No thanks.  I don't want to be governed by nanny state control freak filth.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:47 | 5432634 Jstanley011
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No maybe about it.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:25 | 5432314 headhunt
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These F' wads want to make the internet a 'utility' - more union/fascism in the wings.

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:26 | 5432316 gdiamond22
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America was the greatest gift that society has ever known - until government maggots like you fucked it all up.

 

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:30 | 5432330 El Gringo
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Now with the "progressive" globalist movement america is the greatest disease ever known.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:37 | 5432363 gdiamond22
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Serioulsy - look at all that 'progress'!!!

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:27 | 5432318 withglee
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No blocking. If a consumer requests access to a website or service, and the content is legal, your ISP should not be permitted to block it. That way, every player — not just those commercially affiliated with an ISP — gets a fair shot at your business.

Legal is the operative word here folks. There's a camel on the other end of that nose that's trying to slide under the tent.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:53 | 5432422 cherry picker
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Tyler will now have to submit an application and coin so the regulators can determine if ZeroHedge is legal.  Then they will give him 100 pages of boiler plate to advise him what content is "legal" or not.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:11 | 5432479 Budd aka Sidewinder
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This...the idea is to make moderating the comments sections (which is where the real Fight Club is anyway) so onerous and expensive - in order to keep out any and all 'offensive' comments that sites like ZH will either have to shut down, start charging, or be labelled as illegal.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:29 | 5432326 cherry picker
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I live in Canada.  Wireless providers make a killing offering data plans.  When I lived in Mexico I could go to a convenience store and buy gigabytes so I could work wirelessly.

Here, you need two pieces of ID so you can access it, plus buy stuff you don't need and if you are lucky get 2-5 gigs a month, unless you buy an unlimited plan which throttles you at their convenience.

It is about time the playing field was leveled and they opened the doors for competition.  Our existing caririers would go broke in a month.  They are like dealing with US cable companies and their $100+ a month plans to watch infomercials and 20 year old movies.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:46 | 5432632 withglee
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Technology exists right now that makes "carriers" irrelevant, and non-competitive. Start throttling and watch it be immediately pressed into service. BTW: This alternate technology cannot be bugged or throttled.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:23 | 5433053 cherry picker
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If there is, I'll be one of the first on it.

Who the hell is government when they attempt to stifle and snoop communication?

Nothing else will drive people to rebellion, but telling them who is legit or not on FaceBook will bring on the riots.

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:29 | 5432331 MarkAntony
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"... No blocking. If a consumer requests access to a website or service, and the content is legal, your ISP should not be permitted to block it..."

Of course, "you know who" will determine what legal content is.

Crap. One more stepping stone to complete control... it's coming "folks".

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 17:27 | 5433910 El Gringo
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You know who... why that'd be the Jew(s)!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:30 | 5432335 ZeroPoint
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Here comes CISPA II.

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:31 | 5432336 tradingdaze
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The one thing to finally stir up males will be, taking away porn.

 

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:55 | 5432427 booboo
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and piss off the teachers union with no kiddy porn.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:31 | 5432337 esum
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if you like yor internet .... you can keep your internet

NOTHING THIS FUCKING SCUMBAG SAYS IS THE TRUTH.... 

i think the ussa sent a loud message but this commie muslim hater traitor is delusional.... hitler in the bunker  

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:32 | 5432340 Sokhmate
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I'd think 'independent agency' is an oxymoron

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:32 | 5432342 madcows
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A free internet is a dangerous thing.  it must be controlled and monitored!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:33 | 5432346 Son of Captain Nemo
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  • *OBAMA CALLS FOR REGULATING INTERNET LIKE PHONE COMPANIES
  • *OBAMA ASKS FOR 'STRONGEST POSSIBLE RULES' FOR OPEN INTERNET

"The Internet has been one of the greatest gifts our economy — and our society — has ever known,"

Oh yeah!!!  That'll work...NOW!!! 

AT&T and Verizon will keep it free and open wherever they "lay the pipe"!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:45 | 5432386 Emergency Ward
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"You folks didn't build that.  It was a gift from a progressive economics professor or a community organizer, so I'll just take it over and run it how I feel for the benefit of my cronies and the greater good!"

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:35 | 5432358 Grumbleduke
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what a pos nation you have become, with a figurehead that suits your soul very nice.

USA?

I'm vomitin' it!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:08 | 5432425 Son of Captain Nemo
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Gd

Don't say such things.  "poTUs" has a dream and a plan for ALL OF US.

Including the countries we spy on and steal trade secrets from every chance we get!  We just need the NDI chief with the help of all those "moonlighting" NSA professionals under ex- Director NSA Alexander to keep telling our NATO partners that we really are here to fix the bad PR using the likes of Cisco, Juniper, HP, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Zuckerbook, VMWare, Oracle to showcase how they are going to now "plug all those nasty "holes" they made and how DES, DES3, SHA will all be augmented with demonstrations of how those new "open" encryption standards can never  be hacked. so that none of those protocol services that they rigged along with the hardware and code from those commercial IT corporations they are in bed with can never, ever, ever be easily hacked again!

Keep telling yourself this will happen and that this Federal clandestine service these Corporation(s) work for and who's CEOs all have classified clearances are on solid ground to "blow the top off" the market(s) next year with new inovations that Europe and Asia -can't do without!

YEAH!!!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:35 | 5432359 Grumbleduke
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what a pos nation you have become, with a figurehead that suits your soul very nice.

USA?

I'm vomitin' it!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:38 | 5432365 Emergency Ward
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How about internet privacy free from the nasty, pornographic, prying eyes of the Obama Police State Agencies?

Oh, no, that's not the kind of internet he was talking about.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:40 | 5432374 Buster Cherry
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I'd so like to see him and Michelle doing a Mussolini on some streetlamp....

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:50 | 5432409 SheepDog-One
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'Open internet' should be about as free as an 'open air concentration camp' I imagine.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:57 | 5432433 booboo
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Hang her by her neck, I don't want to see whats underneath please

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:47 | 5432381 Catullus
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Net neutrality is a price fixing scheme. All the other industries that adopt it fail. It's a way to enforce cartel pricing using the government. Nothing more. Nothing less. You can let the reddit crowd of mouth-breathers be the most vocal about it. But that's what it is.

Even the most regulated industry on the planet -- electric power -- charges for capacity and load factor. You charge more to people and businesses that use more capacity. As their load factor increases, their average rate decreases. It's incredible how that works. And you justify the building of plants and transmission lines by using the capacity payments to cover the fixed costs of new build.

Fixing the cost and not allowing capacity pricing or throttling means that you'll never get further investment in long-term capital projects. The industry will just focus on harvesting from downstream retail customers and not reinvest in their businesses. This is how you decapitalize an entire industry. They'll ask for a bailout just like the railroads and airlines and telecom companies did. In fact, the FCC is just a leftover of the defunct ICC.

Here's what you do: you breakup the transmission from the last-mile distribution. End the monopoly at the last mile and the market will evolve into a nodal market. Allow distros to buy and sell nodes. Create an independent (of the government) regional transmission and distribution authority that bundles the two costs together and bills the ISP. While you're at it, eliminate these moronic state PUCs from regulating telecom and internet service.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:46 | 5432393 Panic Mode
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cat /dev/zero > /your/bank/account

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:45 | 5432394 localizer
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It just seems to me that everything Obama touches turns into a disaster... this is a very serious development. The internet has made all the shit they're pulling so much more difficult to hide... they must be dreaming about the Good Ol' Days of the Cold War when the info was so much easier to suppress...

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:49 | 5432401 Grimaldus
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And the big government progressive policy machine eats more liberty and freedom..........

This is PROGRESSIVE POLICY in action folks.......and you progressives froth at the mouth for this.

FOAD progressive assclowns.

Grimaldus

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:49 | 5432402 SheepDog-One
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Can't somebody stop this fucking lunatic before we're all killed?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:50 | 5432403 css1971
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Or put another way.

We saw how China prevents their subjects from reading illegal content and we immediately thought "FUCKING BRILLIANT we want that too!". Now we can stop American subjects from seeing content we don't want them to see. We can control their entire reality! They won't even be aware there is an alternative!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:48 | 5432404 Panic Mode
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Looks like someone is trying to stop their indecent photos spreading in the internet.....

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:54 | 5432426 hedgeless_horseman
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Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:24 | 5432532 Bollixed
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That sure is one ugly dude in upper right hand corner...

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:40 | 5432593 Cacete de Ouro
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Who y'all callin a tranny? Bitchez!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:33 | 5432870 Emergency Ward
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There's always one "look at me, I'm the life of the party" horse's ass at every somber memorial service.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:52 | 5432418 Bemused Observer
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I don't understand how any private company can restrict access to these signals. Aren't they bounced off satellites that taxpayers paid to send into orbit? As far as I know, these companies don't send their own satellites up there, they use the existing ones.

And how come I can't access those signals without going through some pay-for-service company? A company that is using equipment I helped pay for to run their business?

I guess it's easy to be a huge media conglomerate when you have the taxpayers building all your infrastructure, then you turn around and bill them for access.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:58 | 5432436 cherry picker
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I considered suing .gov for allowing companies to send signals through my body without my permission or not paying me for the privilege.

How do I know if one of the frequencies they send out screws around with my brain's electronics and makes me go nuts?

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:26 | 5432540 Bollixed
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Simple, you'll find yourself logging into ZH and...

Oh wait...

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:20 | 5432513 I Write Code
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You are a maroon, even the satellites have been mostly private for twenty years.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:45 | 5433142 Bemused Observer
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Yeah, whatever...Most of us don't have the time to keep up with everything. I'm sure there are many things I'm unaware of, and don't consider myself stupid for not being up-to-date on all of them.

An informative link would have made the point without the insult.

I know, it's Fight Club. So I'll just grin through my bloody teeth and take it like a man. (Even though I'm a woman.)

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 11:56 | 5432431 LetsGetPhysical
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Attention Komrades Attention!!!! Hear this glorious news.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:06 | 5432457 falak pema
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A monopoly controlled Internet by corporations or a many tier Internet, fast and slow, priviledged and underpriviledged, (based on how powerful we are), is not the solution.

But is Obama protecting Net neutrality or hiding true Oligarchy control from behind the tinsel curtain of "neutral net" ?

If financial and judicial regulation is anything to go by, you can be sure the devil is on the side of the rich and powerful.

As always, he sits in the details...

What power does the user have to control the so called regulators?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:06 | 5432463 Dre4dwolf
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The internet self regulates.

Regulate the banks, they are the ones breaking the law.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:11 | 5432992 css1971
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They already do regulate the banks. Your problem with that is?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:08 | 5432471 silentboom
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This is more equality nonsense.  Let the market work these things out, the last thing we need is more government involvement on the internet.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:12 | 5432487 Sizzurp
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Obama doesn't want people thinking for themselves.  He wants to control the message. He wants to program you so you think right.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:11 | 5432489 Dineroguru
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But who will become our free internet czar,,,who will be the next Joseph Goebbels? 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:18 | 5432507 I Write Code
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And to make sure it's free and open everyone will be required to buy an Obamanet policy for $600/month or pay a $5000 fine enforced by the IRS, but it will be subsidized for anyone who makes less than 40% more than the current poverty line or who likes to watch pr0n.  The federal goverment is extending $500,000,000 in loan guarantees to this Silicon Valley dweeb who says he has a solar-powered network freedom widget.

I'd go on about what a dildo Obama is on this and everything technical but everyone knows already, anyhow "net neutrality" is one of these idiotic phrases and ideas that's been floating around DC for ten years and more.  I see most ZH posters already know it's bullshit, and that what the Internet NEEDS is "quality of service" bands depending on content type and bandwidth - with Netflix being the poster boy of the month for this whole issue.  We've all gotten away with it on the Internet so far because we've made all the pipes amazingly bigger BUT there are new video standards coming along with higher frame rate, higher color density, and more pixels, and if anyone tries to stream that to every household in America it will jam every router in America and nobody will get it at all.

So yes of course Obama is on completely the wrong side of things per the facts, Jax.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:35 | 5433107 L Bean
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Obama, or if we're honest anyone in recent power, doesn't care about the functionality of the smokescreen, or if it will even function at all.

He/they just need a damn smokescreen.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:19 | 5432510 SheepDog-One
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Um, hey dipshit prezdunt.....the Internet has already been designed, keep your cock grabbers off of it!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:19 | 5432512 Wahooo
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The Internet of Things under gov monopoly? Just damn.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:19 | 5432514 Quinvarius
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Your internet bill is about to double.  Believe it.  Everything this jackass does turns to shit.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:23 | 5432529 screw face
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Oguano.......

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:24 | 5432530 LFMayor
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4Chan! I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good PRONsites or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. That's what's important! Hacking and Mahem  pleases you, 4Chan; so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:25 | 5432534 DonGenaro
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come on, baby - just the tip ?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:26 | 5432537 Son of Loki
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"It's for the children."

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:28 | 5432545 kchrisc
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First and foremost, all totalitarian states regulate speech and thought.

This is because all governments ascend from a lie, are a lie, and must protect that lie at all costs.

An American, not US subject.

 

"Government is lies  backed by violence that then becomes violence backed by lies."

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:30 | 5432554 p00k1e
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Is this the reason for the Bitcoin spike? 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:42 | 5433130 L Bean
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Ukraine gov banned bitcoin today I think, under an extremely weak currency...or something. Could be a Russia/Ukraine thingy.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:41 | 5433132 L Bean
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Ukraine gov banned bitcoin today I think, under an extremely weak currency...or something. Could be a Russia/Ukraine thingy.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:32 | 5432563 moneybots
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President Obama: "The FCC is an independent agency, and ultimately this decision is theirs alone."

 

ZH: " Oh, and to make matters worse, the current FCC is filled to the brim with revolving door industry lobbyists.

Independent agency, sure it is.



Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:33 | 5432566 Fix It Again Timmy
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With the stunning and brilliant success of the Bammy-Care website, why, it makes perfect sense that they should control the internet...

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:33 | 5432567 dexter_morgan
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Isn't it 'open' now? Wouldn't 'regulating' it make it by definition less open? What, did he determine people get information off the internet that isn't gubmit propaganda? That would be dangerous....

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:34 | 5432573 BillyTheBlade
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We all must question his intent! Not even a week after he got stomped at the polls he is asking to regulate the only thing that keeps the population informed. Who would have seen this coming!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:37 | 5432584 p00k1e
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We don’t have to question intent.

This was all addressed in the midterms. 

You have to understand, the Republicans will save us from over regulation. 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:35 | 5432577 alangreedspank
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Open!....To NSA monitoring, ALL OF IT!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:37 | 5432582 Seize Mars
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Want the internet free? Then stop trying to regulate it.
Fuck communism.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:37 | 5432586 studfinder
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I hope they use the method they used to fix healthcare in this country (obamacare) to fix the internet :)

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:38 | 5432590 moneybots
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"When I was a candidate for this office, I made clear my commitment to a free and open Internet, and my commitment remains as strong as ever."

 

There is that phrase, I made it clear, again. 

Why would a free and open internet need a kill switch?  to benefit someone who doesn't believe in a free and open internet.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:40 | 5432610 swass
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I wouldn't be surprised to see some stuff like this try to get rammed through before the end of the year.  

Most people seem to think "net neutrality" is some great thing, but what it means is that you put government in charge of something it wasn't in charge of before.  As a consequence, they could regulate that you use government approved encryption (that they can break), that government approve of domain name purchases, regulate speech, etc.  With government agencies doing such a great job for us, why not have them regulate the internet too?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:44 | 5432625 dexter_morgan
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more Orwellian double speak

net 'neutrality' - who can be against neutrality

patriot act - who isn't patriotic

etc......

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:42 | 5432617 gcjohns1971
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This is what happens when a totalitarian is losing the political debate.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:56 | 5432641 Kprime
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get ready to have your IP droned by the Cock Sucker In Chief

 

"Hiel Obama"

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:52 | 5432652 Ditch
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Invent/cause problem.

Regulate to solve.

Control stolen by Government.

Tax to follow.

Freedom takes another bayonet to the intestines.

 

DITCH THE FED

 

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:56 | 5432658 NuYawkFrankie
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If Obozo could do for the Internet what he's done for Healthcare, the Economy, the Middle East, Ukraine, Secure Borders <Disaster-du-Jour goes here> ....

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:00 | 5432694 Emergency Ward
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This is the kind of "unpatriotic" reporting that Obama's regulations would suppress in the name of "open internet, but not too open" --

Obama murders more children in Syria.  Jen Psaki does not even bother to deny it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/07/us-mideast-crisis-syria-strike...

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:15 | 5432710 NuYawkFrankie
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That's right.

 

And that "Jen" Psaki is a real piece of work -  can't stand  looking at her insufferably dumb, smarmy, smug mug.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:52 | 5432668 Jstanley011
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The government can't even construct a website that works for half a billion dollars and counting. So of course its aparatchicks are competent to regulate the Internet.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:58 | 5432695 Uncle Remus
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The website, like Obamacare, or for that matter Obama, was never intended to actually work in a sense recognized by the hoi polloi.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:54 | 5432674 Uncle Remus
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The Internet isn't dead, it just smells funny.

(to borrow a line from FZ)

 

EDIT: So should I not order that Nexus 6 or what?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:54 | 5432678 dexter_morgan
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Increased transparency.

Well, there you have it, from the leader of the most transparent administration in US history.


Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:21 | 5432828 Village-idiot
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I think (at least, I hope) you forgot to turn on your "sarcasm-indicator".

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:56 | 5432691 numapepi
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To keep the internet free our government has to regulate it... Sounds like newspeak to me. INGSOC lives!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:08 | 5432759 NuYawkFrankie
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"We have to destroy the Internet to save it" - USSA-SOC

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:58 | 5432697 JR
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“companies who connect you to the world have special obligations not to exploit the monopoly they enjoy over access in and out of your home or business,” –Barack Obama, president of the United States

It’s about control. Power.

Obama’s former Information Czar Cass Sunstein who subsequently was appointed to NSA’s oversight panel to review the surveillance practices of the National Security Agency argues in his 2001 book, “Republic.com,” that…

 the Internet may weaken democracy because it allows citizens to isolate themselves within groups that share their own views and experiences, and thus cut themselves off from any information that might challenge their beliefs, a phenomenon known as cyber balkanization.” – (Wikipedia)

In short, freedom of speech is undermining the dictatorship of the financial oligarchy.

Sunstein, a noted propagandist, further advocates that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-"independent"  to "cognitively infiltrate" online groups and websites

As Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Sunstein was responsible for "overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs."

Communism is a conspiracy in which hate- or power-driven men (such as Cass Sunstein and Obama and Netanyahu) conspire to control man.

The international bankers’ hand-selected one-party political system in DC with is “strict secrecy, strict selection of members and the training of professional revolutionaries (Lenin’s words)” is a kind of clandestine Federal Reserve operation that follows Lenin’s advice on the Bolshevik takeover of the sovereignty of nations via financial terrorism - to be replaced with a new world order.

Arriving in Beijing today, Obama offered to make China a partner in underwriting the international bankers’ socialist “international order.”

 "Our message is that we want to see China successful," Obama told a news conference. "But, as they grow, we want them to be a partner in underwriting the international order, not undermining it."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/10/us-china-usa-idUSKCN0IU16C20141110

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:58 | 5432698 numapepi
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To keep the Internet free we have to regulate it eh? Sounds like newspeak to me. INGSOC lives!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:59 | 5432704 freedogger
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If those four restrictions are the crux of what get's enforced, that is actually pretty good for the country. Devil is in the details though.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:17 | 5432799 Kprime
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Like a pedophile offering candy to a 6 yr old boy, if he will just step into the van and pick out which candy he likes best.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:22 | 5432831 JR
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It’s called strategy – by the oligarchs –it’s the way they sell snake oil to the public.  It’s the way the international bankers won over support for the Federal Reserve Act from the Populists, such as William Jennings Bryan, the last hold-out against the bill. Bryan was concerned that the Federal Reserve would be an instrument for ruining the nation's money supply.

G. Edward Griffin explains how International Banker Paul Warburg, who was forever the master strategist, insisted that the money trust “added several very sound provisions to the Federal Reserve Bill.”

Writes Griffin: “By that I mean they added some provisions which seriously restricted the ability of the Federal Reserve to create money out of nothing. Warburg's associates said, ‘Paul, what are you doing? We don't want those in there this is our bill.’ And his response was this, he said, ‘Relax fellas, don't you get it? Our object is to get the bill passed. We can fix it up later.’ Those were his exact words. ‘We can fix it up later.’

“He was so right… When people go to sleep things can get changed.”

“When you look at it you realize that what they created there was not federal, there are no reserves, it's not a system at all in the sense of diffusion of power and these Federal Reserve banks aren't even banks. On all four words we're dealing with appearances of the fourth kind. It was brilliant strategy.”

“The next thing was to sell this creature to the public…”

http://www.bigeye.com/griffin.htm

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 12:59 | 5432706 Jano
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Did he close the NSA?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:00 | 5432718 viator
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I'm from the government, I'm here to help you.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:32 | 5432866 Uncle Remus
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Not bloody likely.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:00 | 5432719 vegas
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Anytime President Goebbels opens his pie hole to speak, you can rest assured 2 things are in play; 1) he is lying, and 2) somebody else has programmed the teleprompter. The only thing he forgot in this headline is that "it's for the children".

 

www.traderzoo.mobi

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:00 | 5432723 Graph
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It's all WB7 fault!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:02 | 5432730 gwar5
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That Fucker. He's pissed off nobody likes him anymore. He's going to burn down YT's house before he leaves.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:05 | 5432732 XitSam
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Watch the new GOP 'rebuke of Obama and his policies' Senate, and the rest of Congress, leap onto this bill in a show of "bipartisanship" and "how government is supposed to work" while piling on tons of exceptions, subsidies and handouts for the privileged class to "keep the Internet free" while actually undermining the freedom they, in reality, can't tollerate.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:31 | 5432862 Uncle Remus
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That sounds cynical.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 11:13 | 5436378 XitSam
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Hardly a spec of how cynical I am about politics.

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 11:33 | 5436450 Uncle Remus
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I hear you.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:05 | 5432743 TVP
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Something huge may be on the horizon.

This is the biggest move by these parasites since the attempts at gun confiscation. 

Wake up and smell the tyranny, bitchez.  

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:17 | 5433025 CharlieMike
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+1 for proper use of term bitchez.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:08 | 5432761 dexter_morgan
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OBAMA VOWS EXECUTIVE ACTION ON IMMIGRATION

Kind of off topic, but I have a question. He is vowing to act on immigration before the new congress is sworn it. Can congress overturn executive actions somehow? Seems they should be able to pass legislation that would in effect overturn it if they can't do it directly?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:13 | 5432774 homiegot
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Regulation always turns out crushing everything.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:15 | 5432792 Village-idiot
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Not quite everything; those who are willing to kiss boots, or otherwise play the game, will be OK. 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:29 | 5433082 PoliticalRefuge...
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."The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience"..  Albert Camus

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 15:40 | 5433406 L Bean
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"Regulation" is an essential feature of oligarchal fascism, the oligarchs are inherently protected from any such bother because they're literally too big to fail/jail. Regulation is for the little people; and There Will Be Scapegoats/Emmanuel Goldsteins.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:17 | 5432797 dsty
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well, wouldn't mind cleaning out the perverts and jew haters

i mean, there has to be some benefit

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:23 | 5432835 Comte d'herblay
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How can you NOT hate Lord Blankfein, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, Peter Orszag, Ace Greenberg, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, J Yell, Jack Lew, Dominic Strauss-Kahn, LArry Fink, Gary Gensler, Robert Rubin, Dick Fuld, Jimmy Cayne, Bernie Madoff (even other jews hate him, and worse) Jonathan Greenblatt, Dan Shapiro, Mary Shapiro, Gener Sperling, Rahm Emmanuel, Elena Kagan, Shoshana Kardin, and on and on and on...

 

 

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:35 | 5432879 pherron2
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Goy is just a wonderful term of endearment toward us? That being the case I do wonder where this hate stems from.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:19 | 5432802 dsty
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well, wouldn't mind cleaning out the perverts and jew haters

i mean, there has to be some benefit

but then there wouldn't be many people left here

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:19 | 5433030 shovelhead
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There ought to be a law...

How about a trigger warning?

"This website contains content that will make 'liberals' lose their shit because liberals are everything but liberal."

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:17 | 5432808 A82EBA
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Greenspan's segment on gold was more than they could tolerate so time to get a handle on the situation

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:17 | 5432809 Kprime
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We have to regulate it to know what's in it!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:28 | 5432846 Platypus
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Oh gosh!! When they start to talk about freedom it means they are conspiring to do exactly the contrary. Say bye to a free internet.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:27 | 5432847 fishwharf
fishwharf's picture

If you like your internet you can keep your internet.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:27 | 5432849 Billy Shears
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Like a fox calling for a more open chicken coop.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:26 | 5432850 TheABaum
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Oh go the f away already. I am so sick of this twisted POS already. I hope he goes apesh** on cigarettes and cheeseburgers when Mooch leaves him.

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:30 | 5432863 CaptainMoonlight
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Obama's STILL walking around under his own power? Amazing tolerance the American people have. Wow.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:21 | 5433045 BeerMe
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Some Canandian was sticking up for him...  Maybe they will take him?

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:34 | 5432871 steveo77
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On topic

Do you ever just want to SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:33 | 5432872 orangegeek
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barry, you have a mandate to make muffins for the next two years and nothing else - fuck off you communist prick

 

someone fucking shoot this asshole

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:23 | 5433055 BeerMe
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No.  Then his trainwreck presidency would be saved by a bullet.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:34 | 5433099 PoliticalRefuge...
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That clean up operation wouldn't surprise me at all, his best used date is over, he is a pariah so the natural thing to do before next election is for the Dems to elevate him to martyr status in the eyes of the perpetual fool.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:41 | 5433131 shovelhead
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Hey,

I was just going to make some giant blueberry muffins with that cinnamon crumb topping.

Giant muffins are everything that stands for wholesome goodness in this world.

Let Barry make liver and onions or cauliflower or some other rank shit that nobody with sense would eat.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 14:46 | 5433152 pupdog1
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Great.

He'll find a way to make mufins cost $57 each, he will require minimum muffin purchases (with Louis Lerner as Muffin Czar), he will make us pay for free muffins for the Free Stuff Army,and he will end up with a lifetime appointment to the board of directors of the nation's leading GMO muffin mix company after 2016.

And the Wookenstein will make muffins the centerpiece of every Fed-approved school lunch.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:37 | 5432886 Lostinfortwalton
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Basically the Dems had it shoved up their a-- by the citizenry working through the Internet and they can't stand it. Gotta make the Internet safe for Hillary the Gatekeeper.

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:38 | 5432887 theyjustcantstop
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in plain speak, we're about to be, class-ideoligically--net-nueter-ized.

 

Mon, 11/10/2014 - 13:55 | 5432909 Tachyon5321
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TeamOBama always lies.... So the real reason to take control of the internet is so democrats can tax it and NSA has an easier time spying on us.

 

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