Hey Guys. I recently emailed Tom Wheeler to his public email expressing my concern for the recent events happening with Net-Neutrality. By no means is it a professional email but his reply was interesting.
I'm not 100% sure if this is a 100% automated response but he says "I'm a strong supporter of the Open Internet, and I will fight to keep the internet open." I'm wondering how much he actually is a supporter of the open internet. I honestly think he is but he's doing a cruddy job at defending Net-Neutrality from the Major ISP's. Any Thoughts? (btw. yes i do have the same last name as Tom Wheeler......) Someone Enlighten and educate me!
He's historically been against regulation throughout his career in Washington, DC. In the event he stopped receiving benefits from the ISP he'd turn on them though.
If he was for an open internet he wouldnt be advocating extortion from the ISPS towards content providers.
Talk is cheap, his actions speak very very clearly that he is against an open internet.
Whether it is malice or incompetence is meaningless.
Here is the case. He says he is for open internet. He does the opposite. They even voted 3 to 2 in support of his fast lane internet. He is a ISP lobbyist, so his plans are meant to benefit them. If he actually cared about the openness of the internet. He would do what multiple federal judges and large tech companies have suggested to reclassify the internet to title 2 from title 1. In 2002 it was changed from title 2 to 1, which made it so the FCC cant enforce any internet based law. Prior to that they were able to enforce net neutrality. There have been two large trials between the FCC and ISPs. In both cases the residing judges stated all you have to do is reclassify it. One was Comcast and the more resent one was Verizon. The two trials were separated by almost half a decade. Tom Wheeler is not for open internet, if he was, he would propagate the reclassification of it. He has said the FCC wont allow for fast lanes, then he says it creates competition. I actuality it destroys competition. Kick starters are going to have a harder time competing with multi million/billion dollar industries. Apple started in a garage, with the way it is, Apple wouldnt have been able to start in a garage in today's age. It wouldnt even take that long to do the paperwork, there would be very little infact. If it is true, it was stated that it only took something like 15 minutes to reclassify it from title 2 to 1 back in 2002. If Wheeler says he support the open internet, he is bullshitting it, because he cant enforce the free and open internet. Why? Two court cases have said why. He is a liar, like Obama and most other lobbyists in the government. Not all lobbying is bad, but his kind is the worst. You know who should be held accountable for this? Obama should 100%. He appointed Wheeler to his position. He is doing anything about it now is he? It is like the whole Chris Chrisite fiasco. His underling was bullying a city councilman, because the person didn't like Christie's plans or what not. Christie needs to be held accountable for his underlings when in office. Why, because he appointed them and more than likely had them do it for him.
Btw, ISPs claim bandwidth is an issue due to the infrastructure. They claim it is too costly to upgrade. They have been given billions to upgrade it and never have. This whole fast lane shit is the love child of ISPs not upgrading and their claims of limited bandwidth. We aren't running out, it is essentially a lie being fed to the public. It is a lie that is being accepted by the public.
by keep the "internet open" he means keep the status quo. the way they define open internet is the status quo, i.e. not the same way you define "open internet".
the regulators look at this in the similar manner. their definition of "open internet" is the situation as it is, hence why they haven't reclassified these corporations despite the courts telling them they could do so.
just because they use the same words you do, doesn't mean they mean the same thing (refer to Orwell). there's a youtube guy/channel called eli the computer guy and the first 15 mins of his episode on net neutrality goes into this.
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