Poll: Majority Oppose Net Neutrality Adoption
by Capitol ConfidentialA new survey released Thursday revealed a majority of Americans oppose the Federal Communications Commissions proposed overhaul of the nation’s broadband regulatory regime.
The poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates, found that a full 75% of Americans nationwide believe the internet is “working well.” The survey also found that 55% of respondents believe that the government should have no hand in regulating the internet.
But for senior FCC brass, the heartburn does not end there: The poll of 800 likely voters found that a plurality of respondents conceded having voted for President Barack Obama in 2008, signaling to Mr. Obama’s White House that it may yet be losing Independent voters on another regulatory issue.
That the FCC’s proposed Net neutrality rules rates even lower than many incumbent Democrats — in an election cycle where political handicappers maintain that GOP’ers stand a good chance of retaking the House and an outside chance of wresting control of the Senate — should give pause to anyone Administration official still pushing for the measure’s adoption.
“We believe broadband access should be available and affordable for every household in the nation,” the group Broadband for American, who commissioned the poll, said Thursday in a release. “These findings support our belief that the Internet should be open and secure.”
“As the old adage goes: If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it,” one FCC watcher told Capitol Confidential.
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Dear Liberal Hack Journalists:
If you think a story about a politician fornicating with anything up to and including a dead farm animal is going to change our vote come November 2, 2010 – your delusional. This time it's personal, its not business anymore, we want a political liberal bloodbath, we want you liberals run out of Washington on a high speed rail that the taxpayers paid for at light speed. Thus, print your lies, repeat your falsehoods, it doesn't matter anymore – you've made this personal and we're pissed, and you will politically pay a dear price for your crimes against the citizens of this country. I
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Respectfully,
JD
Since most people are against this, the liberals will push this as their highest priority while buying off votes and then vote using a reconciliation process at 2 am next Friday. Bastards, every last one of them.
The majority of Americans oppose Obama and the Democrat Congress…… thank God.
Key word you used was Americans. Ya think we have enough with all the illegals flocking in? ; )
Oh Great! Since most of America oppose Net Neutrality that means this administration will go full bore to get it through the congress and signed into law. I bet they try to push it through a lame duck session of congress.
Daily Kos and MoveOn are both MOBILIZING their memberships to take action and demand Net Neutrality. Given the huge memberships of both these sites….we better git our azzzzes in gear. They are beating the war drums over this one and with Soros backing them with unlimited funding…it's gonna be hard to stop this bill.
And they have kicked it into high gear immediately. They were going to tackle it next year, but seeing the election writing on the wall they have moved it up to be one of the "year end" ATROCITIES DEMS PASS BEFORE GETTING SQUASHED LIKE BUGS.
They can do it if we don't raise hell right now with every organization we belong to and spread the word fast. Check out the Daily Kos website to see their plan to push this bill through.
It's getting ugly out there folks…..and from Nov to Jan we are likely to see the passage of so much crap legislation it will take us YEARS to undo the damage. Dems are like a political rock band hell bent on trashin the hotel room before they check out!
Americans aren't just saying no, we're saying….
HELL F***ING NO!
That's my thinking, as well………
Net neutrality. The complete control of the new age of information.
I used to use Google. I had read they received all kinds of contracts with this Administration and they are storing all your information/surfing activity in HUGE databases. It got so bad, I couldn't even go to the Fox website without manually shutting down my computer because of loop errors.
I switched to Mozilla and Bing as the search engine. Now I have "Hal" the supercomputer. Imagine that?
This is a fight we must win. Imagine you only have "one" news source, and it is Chris Mathews.
I'll be waiting in the lobby…….
This is why O'Donnells election is SOOOOO IMPORTANT. It is a special election and she will be sworn in immediately to fill Biden's old seat she will be able to block this in the senate along with the final nail in the coffin of our republic in the form of cap n trade. I pray that she wins and I hope Rove and Krauthammer shut their mouths and get behind her castle would vote for cap n trade anyway.
FREE, but crappy I-NET for all,………….. brought to you by the US Gubmit.
GEEEE fellow BIG'ers,,,, I jest cain't wait for YOU to experience the same level of service
I get here in the sticks.
But NO complaining now,…………… remember it'll be FREE!
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The internet usually works where I live.
I think we need some government intervention to change that.
Americans want no part of Net Neutrality FCC Commissioners, Chairman Genachowski, Commissioner Copps, and Commissioner Clyburn are Marxists who are just foxes in the first amendment hen house……
One little good thing about a progs short sightedness: They can’t see how far it is to the ground. I figure BO’s got enough altitude to never even hit, probably burn up n’ vaporize during re-entry. When he deploys his drag chute, I’ll be interested in seeing whom he jettisons and where he throws ‘em, in his effort to control the skidding.
P.S. Did anyone hear the Steven Cobear testimony this morning before a Congressional Committee? It is absolutely crazy folks. What a basket case the whole bunch.
We all opposed Obamacare too but they did it anyway and they will shove this nonsense down our throats the same way. The real question is what can we do to stop it?
How many more would change their opinions if they knew net neutrality was proposed by a Soros front group Free Speech, was designed to control the network and stymie free, unfettered access.
Seems like it is working fine, and I sure don't want free speech censored, just to string a few lines to people who don't want it anyway.
I found the email from Daily Kos that was sent out yesterday and again today. Im passin it along for you to read.
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Net neutrality is one of the bedrock principles of the Internet. It means that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must treat all websites equally. They cannot make it easier load some websites, and more difficult to load others. It's what ensures your ISP can't privilege Fox News over Daily Kos.
But net neutrality is not the law of the land, so ISPs can abandon it at any time. In fact, Google and Verizon have proposed that net neutrality be abandoned for the mobile web. And they have proposed other violations of net neutrality which would end the Internet as we know it. We cannot allow this to happen.
Nothing good is likely to make its way through Congress anytime soon, so Daily Kos is joining with CREDO to urge Julius Genachowski, the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to take action.
Tell FCC Chairman Genachowski to act–don't let corporations write their own rules.
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Chairman Genachowski's first major speech as head of the FCC, in which he committed to protecting net neutrality. However, despite having the votes on the FCC to pass strong net neutrality rules, Genachowski has avoided taking the necessary action to do so. There's no good excuse for his dithering.
The regulatory vacuum his inaction has created set the stage for the Google and Verizon proposal, in which they are attempting to write the rules that would govern their behavior. To see what happens when large corporations write their own rules, we just need look at Wall Street, or the Gulf of Mexico. We can't let that to happen to the Internet, too. We must push Chairman Genachowski to act before it's too late.
Sign the petition–tell Chairman Genachowski to protect net neutrality..
The Daily Kos community is only possible because of net neutrality. It created the free and open Internet, which allowed netroots activism to flourish. Without net neutrality, it would be impossible for smaller websites, such as ours, to compete.
FCC chair Genachowski needs to step up. Join with thousands of others to remind Genachowski to fulfill his promise before it's too late.
Make the FCC stop dithering–sign the letter to protect net neutrality now!
Save the Intertubes,
Joan McCarter, Daily Kos
November 2 … We need to stay the course, restore the Constitution.
Although I see this as serious affront on free speech …
We are, after all, just stupid Americans. Obama just needs to talk more in order to educate us about the wonders of net neutrality so we can understand and love big govt as much as he does. We just don't get it yet, but with his help I'm sure we will all fall into line for our blissful socialist existence compliments of his administration. And of course our tax dollars.
Internet censorship … pure and simple.
You is what scares me about my child approaching middle school.
Pignose Waxman is already working on legislation to get this thing done before Jan 2011. He doesn't need no stinkin Congress to pass this. He is the law.
Wouldn't that be GREAT! Then we would actually get the news and not Obama's talking points.
How much does Media Matters pay you anyway?
Majority? Damn the dumb majority! We know best!
Going Beck.
Looks more like a rat to me.
Going Beck.
what in the fucking world is everybody talking about? do you not understand what net neutrality is? net neutrality is the way that the internet has been functioning since it's inception. it IS the status quo, so if youre saying 'if it aint broke, dont fix it', you are taking a pro-net-neutrality stance!
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