'STRONGEST OPEN INTERNET PROTECTIONS EVER'

[telemann]

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[hardblue]

How did this happen? Wasn't he a cable guy, so that it looked like the fix was in for the industry?

[telemann]

A miracle ! A miracle!

[yes_justice]

Awesome!

[fizzyland]

Thank you for the awesome flashback.

[madscience]

Let's hope this isn't another empty "we tried, but it just wasn't politically feasible" gesture.

[madscience]

Also, I wonder if there's a rider in there to get the media companies to go along with it... like some draconian new anti-piracy provisions.

[telemann]

I don't follow what you're suggesting here.

[jom_art]

another form of Internet control?

[telemann]

It's not that, at least to me.

[peristaltor]

Until recently, a Title II plan was a pipe dream for net neutrality advocates. But President Barack Obama came out in support of Title II reclassification and bright-line rules in November, and Wheeler, who had reportedly been considering alternative approaches, appears to now be on board.

Aha! The President Who Need Not Worry About Another Fucking Election has seen the light!

[telemann]

[dexeron]

Repeating again the statement that I've heard elsewhere, and I wish I'd thought up myself:

"I wish the Barack Obama we've gotten over the past six weeks had been the Obama we'd gotten over the past six years."

[telemann]

Amen.