American voters believe free market competition will protect Internet users more than government regulation and fear that regulation will be used to push a political agenda.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 21% of Likely U.S. Voters want the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet as it does radio and television. Fifty-four percent (54%) are opposed to such regulation, and 25% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey was conducted shortly after the FCC decided on a party line vote to impose so-called “net neutrality” regulations on the Internet world. Republicans and unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly oppose FCC regulation of the Internet, while Democrats are more evenly divided. Those who use the Internet most are most opposed to FCC regulations.
By a 52% to 27% margin, voters believe that more free market competition is better than more regulation for protecting Internet users. Republicans and unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly share this view, but a plurality of Democrats (46%) think more regulation is the better approach.
Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters believe that the FCC would use its regulatory authority to promote a political agenda. Half that number (28%) disagree and believe the commission would regulate in an unbiased manner. The partisan divide is the same on this question as the others. A plurality of Democrats sees an unbiased regulatory approach, while most Republicans and unaffiliated voters fear a political agenda.
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I think this regulation is illegal and the company is being hostage to another criminal element from our
nation's WH. Freedom of speech is only one thing that makes America great. Our usurper POTUS is
the one thing that makes America weak.
It's impossible to imagine where they get their statistics…to say we approve of the FCC running the internet…I know of not one person, who wants FCC involved in any way…where do they find these people to agree with them…Liberals? who want the destruction of this country? It is totally incomprehensible!!!!
Well its obvious that the 21% who think the FCC should control the internet must be drinking from the bottle of Utterly STUPID.
I can't fathom how stupid one must be to think that Hitler like behavior would be good in any way shape or form.
Oh DUH, ~ I forgot our schools are pumping out educated IDIOTS yearly. Fully bound to the mindless droid like behavior or the UNIFORM little minds that all think alike, dress alike, and share the same mindless banter. Ok now its all clear…………… We are DOOMED,
"the 21% who think the FCC should control the internet must be drinking from the bottle of Utterly STUPID"
I guess that would explain why the Christian Coalition and Parents Television Council both support net neutrality.
Somebody pitched them a good line http://www.cc.org/olcampaign/defend_net_neutralit…
Perhaps. But thanks for finding the link to back up my statement. As I've mentioned before, I have mixed emotions about the issue because I have no more faith in major telecom corporations than I do in government.
"back up"?
"Essentially, "net neutrality" means keeping the Internet the way it is now"
With over 500 pages of regs to start?
Why would an organization that would want to ban pornography and anything
else they consider vulgar and offensive (really?) want to keep things as they are now?
Like I said in my first comment "Somebody pitched them a good line"
If the are not the pitcher.
Remember the story of Eve? Watch for the coming resultts of the promised "'fundamental transformation of our government" into Marxism(Anti-Messiah, like Islam by the way) that our women voted for in the last election! You do know that women are verbal and men are motor and intellectualizing was the first sin, right? Watch!
The INTERNET stands for INTERnational NETwork. So now we are going to regulate the world or just block content that someone in the FCC doesn't like. Good luck with that, China tries that and fails since 1 billion Chinese are a lot craftier than their government for getting data past the Chinese firewalls. This is just the foot in the door.
Of course the liberal democrats want this. THEY will be 100% exempt, while 'they' continue to tell 'us' what to do … how t do it … and 'when' (or 'if') 'we' will be allowed to do it at all. Don't forget Obama is a heavy smoker, and has yet to kick the habit.
Reminds me of the old saying ….
"DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO."
The comment posted (weird) before I was finished posting this. I was also including the govt, still having the internet while they try to deny it to us.
Don't forget that some of the sites that the FCC closed, weren't violating any copyright laws. They were only search engines.
So if they can close 'them' down, don't think they won't close down your little internet shop if 'they so chose'.
It's not about 'protection', 'copy right laws', or even about 'health care'.
IT IS and always has been ……….ABOUT CONTROL!
"if they can close 'them' down, don't think they won't close down your little internet shop if 'they so chose'"
The same is true, of course, about the major telecom corporations that now control your access to it.
"So if they can close 'them' down, don't think they won't close down your little internet shop if 'they so chose'."
Of course the same is as true of the telecommunication corporations that control your Internet access at your home and/or office, debrarae.
Gibbs recently said that he hasn't smoked for nine months.
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