*UPDATE* - Vote on Net Neutrality/Open Internet Rules - The Ayes Have It!

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Last edited Thu Feb 26, 2015, 02:22 PM - Edit history (2)

http://www.fcc.gov/live

or

http://www.c-span.org/video/?324473-1/fcc-meeting-open-internet-rules

UPDATE: The Ayes HAVE IT! Net Neutrality!

[Egnever]

1. Guy speaking now is a gem!

[blogslut]

3. Yeah

And the dude speaking now, Michael O'Rielly is just as icky.

[dmr]

5. Yes, isn't he?

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Can we charge him by the minute? I wish he'd just STFU already. -nt

[blogslut]

2. So far

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2889632/fcc-votes-to-overturn-state-laws-limiting-municipal-broadband.html

FCC overturns state laws limiting municipal broadband

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to overturn large parts of two state laws that limit local governments from funding and building broadband networks.

Commissioners, in a 3-2 vote Thursday, moved to preempt laws in North Carolina and Tennessee that limit the expansion of existing municipal broadband networks in the two states.

The FCC order, coming in response to petitions from a city in each state, does not apply to laws that limit municipal broadband networks in about 20 other states. But the vote signals how the agency may act if it gets similar petitions from cities in other states, FCC officials have said.

The FCC action will help bring broadband competition to new areas, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said. “You can’t say you’re for broadband, and then turn around and endorse limits on it,” he said. ‘You can’t say you’re for competition, then deny local officials the right to offer competing choices.”...

[dmr]

4. Ajit Pai (R) giving his bullshit statement now.

Making Net Neutrality a Title II is a such terrible Obama overreach. Will ruin the net as we know it. Small Internet companies will not be able to prosper under Title II. Oh my! The sky is falling!

[dmr]

6. The Guardian is live reporting & streaming, too.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2015/feb/26/net-neutrality-fcc-votes-internet

[blogslut]

7. sweet

thanks!

[blogslut]

9. kicksies

Chairman Wheeler speaking now. Vote on whether or not to classify the Internet as a common carrier coming up soon.

[Egnever]

10. Hmm chairman just said it will ban throtling

Like to see hear more about that.

[blogslut]

11. Dyamn

This ruling is going to cover wireless and moble networks too. Noice.

Voitng now!

The Ayes Have It! YEEEEEAAAHHHH!

[Liberal Veteran]

12. Yay!!!!!

[Egnever]

13. Woooohooo! It passed!

I want to do cartwheeels! This is a big fucking deal...

[blogslut]

14. Yes indeed!

Today is a good day

[dmr]

15. YAY!

[blogslut]

16. I know, right?

Whoohoo!

[dmr]

18. I am so happy and relived.

We've waited a long time for this moment.

We've been inundated with anti-Title II commercials Up here in northern Michigan.

[frazzled]

17. And another DU prediction bites the dust

Much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments has taken place here over the past few years. Much vilification of the chairman, Wheeler, as a pawn of the industry, and hissing at "he" who appointed him. Wheeler fully supported this move to regulate the Internet as a utility, with the end result a free and open Internet:

"This proposal has been described by one opponent as 'A secret plan to regulate the internet.' Nonsense!," FCC chairman Tom Wheeler said right before the agency voted on the new rules. "This is no more a plan to regulate the internet than the first amendment is a plan to regulate free speech. They both stand for the same concept: Openness, expression, and an absence of gatekeepers telling people what they can do, where they can go, and what they can think."

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/26/fcc-net-neutrality/

On to the next teeth-gnashing, garment-rending pre-judgment.