Franken: FCC Net Neutrality Plan "Flawed"

U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make significant changes to its proposal on net neutrality before it takes its vote on Tuesday. Friday on the Senate floor he spoke to that issue and also asked the FCC to ensure that its vote on allowing the NBC-Comcast merger to move forward does not take place the week between Christmas and New Year's but instead during a time when Americans will have time to focus on the merger and its potential implications. "The FCC has made public its plans to act on its flawed net neutrality proposal this coming Tuesday," said Sen. Franken. "I sincerely hope that the FCC will make significant improvements before then, and that each of the Commissioners will think long and hard before they vote to approve a proposal that could actually make things worse for all Americans."

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[jbisasky]

Shortly after this, Netflix loses most of its movies available for stream, Netflix raises their prices because the internet providers hiked up their prices. And we blame Netflix for why this happened.

[LameBrainMcCain]

Our government wants Net Neutrality so that they can "NEUTRALIZE" the net.

Our government is against the ability of people to freely exchange ideas and thoughts anonymously, especially about our laws. It threatens their job security! They want to regulate the Internet!

Wake up, folks. Is the "Patriot" Act really patriotic? LOL!

[TheDukeljk]

Net Neutrality is bullshit, free markets man, government is for liberal idiots that need to be told when to take a shower.

[SanguineBullet667]

end the FCC!!!

[bart666a]

 stop the "CLOUD"!!

[billyjackphillips132]

freaking FCC

[SmelDiferenToMidget]

@studentofmises I'm not that into pokemon

[UnclePutin]

Probably the first/last time Fruity Pebbles mentioned in the US Senate.

[studentofmises]

Yes...we need more companies that run just like the DMV and the govt court houses, where we have no other choice but wait and wait and then wait some more. And the best part is that if we dont go to any govt run facility when we are told to we then have the pleasure of going to jail. Lets not forget how the govt is there to help us but can only run there facilities Mon-Fri while companies are open 24/7. Yes more govt regulations. How about removing the FCC and alow anyone to start a new station?

[MindofaJedi]

Corporations should never be able to control information outlets . Unfortunately companies without any morals like Fox and Time Warner want to control every single thing we have access to .