Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically veering from a proposal unveiled earlier in the month, telecommunications policy analysts said on Wednesday.
The Federal Communications Commission will vote on Dec. 21 on whether to adopt regulations that ban the blocking of lawful traffic but allow Internet service providers to ration Web traffic on their networks.
The proposal laid out two weeks ago by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was met with concern from the other members of the FCC, putting in question the likelihood of winning over a majority of the five-member FCC.
The two Republican commissioners have objected to FCC action on Internet rules, saying the Internet is best able to thrive in the absence of regulation. And Genachowski’s two fellow Democrats on the panel could withhold support from any measure they view as too weak.
But analysts said commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Michael Copps, the Democrats on the panel, are more likely to consider it in the majority’s interest to move ahead with so-called net neutrality rules.
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More BO administration BS, we can't wait to get all these " S 0 B's out of office. They are just bad news, plain and simple.
Look at all of Obozo's FCC monkeys .. all lined up in a row. If this BS is allowed, the little dictator will have the ability to cut anyone who does not agree with him from internet access.
Three of the five are Dems, just as under Bush three of the five were Republicans. Elections have consequences, you know.
Same story, different page. The Democrats will more then likely go along with it, because they don't know any better.
Working with Mignon Clyburn has been Senator John Kerry who is for communism anywhere. He did not like the guy that won in Brazil to take over the government and took that fight up at one time. John Kerry has no business in the Senate at all especially since he is more of a Communist then an American.
Why his wife, after being married to a Republican all those years, puts up with his communism ideas I do not know but her son's should not. He is the exact opposite of what their Dad was.
This is a first amendment right and the FCC has no business trying to take it over for Obama. Don't let it happen.