idodishez Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Have they released the actual rules yet?I mean so we the general public can see whats inside it?"We must pass it first, so we can find out what's in it!"Oh wait, they already passed it. "I miss America" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idodishez Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 [Chuckle] the irony is that the Internet would not exist in its current form without initial government research and funding, .......He's RIGHT. Al Gore INVENTED the Internet after all. "I miss America" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 And the lawyers are up and running! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/24/fcc_net_neutrality_lawsuit/ AT&T, Verizon and telco pals file lawsuit to KILL net neutrality FOREVER So the big dogs' backlash begins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 And so it begins... http://personalliberty.com/first-the-obamaphones-now-the-obama-net/ It's for the children or something... In any case the taxes are coming.This is just the prep work of establishing a dialog or narrative to explain why we _need_ the new taxes.Once the camel gets it's nose in the tent...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whaler Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 If anyone thought this was about anything but money (taxes), you are developmentally challenged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/07/15/google-will-offer-free-internet-to-public-housing-residents-in-its-fiber-markets/Really? Free for the democrat voting block? Sure. I thought so.Who is paying for this? Chuckle, you are! It's for the children of course, what are you a luddite? Shut up! Your taxed dollars at work.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 It looks like Google is paying for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smccrory Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/07/15/google-will-offer-free-internet-to-public-housing-residents-in-its-fiber-markets/Really? Free for the democrat voting block? Sure. I thought so.Who is paying for this? Chuckle, you are!It's for the children of course, what are you a luddite? Shut up!Your taxed dollars at work.... I suppose one could see Acorn/Obama/New World Order conspiracy behind that corner but I don't think this is what you think it is. Companies regularly provide discounted or free services to selected customers for a variety of reasons. I work for an employer, for example, that manages some small business loans provided to low-credit small businesses. We don't make ANY money on them, and in fact we lose money on the booking and reporting of those loans, but we do it for positive community service publicity that you can't otherwise pay a marking firm for. Who ultimately pays for that community benefit? I suppose you could say a penny comes from each employee, another penny from each shareholder and a penny from management, which adds a penny to the cost of other financial good and services, but we do it because we think there's greater financial value on the back side. More-so with the Google deal, imagine that they'll not only gain positive local community service publicity, but they'll also get potential customers for their many other (for-fee) products and services, as well as secondary ad revenue and market insight. It's not taxation any more than a CEO's bonus or a new data center or brighter product labeling is a tax on you as a customer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 I'd bet tax monies flow their way. Infrastructure etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smccrory Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 I'd bet tax monies flow their way. Infrastructure etc. Maybe in the form of tax abatements or faster issuance of building permits, but less taxation and regulation is better, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motocat12 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Does this include "residents" with Obama's increased vouchers from public housing who've moved into the middle- upper class homes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Does this include "residents" with Obama's increased vouchers from public housing who've moved into the middle- upper class homes. Following some of the news feeds I'd have to say, no, it does not. Internet is being seen, and or promoted as a basic "Human Right".At least that seems to be the vector that is being used.Whether it is or not isn't my point at all. Rather that as soon as it becomes taxable, which it is now due to the ruling, it will be used as a political tool.Much like, or come to think of it, exactly like the tax on your phone bill funds the so called free Obama phones.Which, if you were paying attention was a factor in the last election. Once a tax is vector is found by the government, based upon some "human rights" or "social justice" justification it will increase.Furthermore once it is taxed, it must be regulated and policed. Bad people must be punished as well.Then you get into that whole thing. Yep, the "thought police". Or what some call "Political Correctness".Which as Charlton Heston said is tyranny with manners but tyranny none the less. Time to put on the tin foil hat to protect me from the flame war that is inevitable when pointing out the world is going to hell in a hand basket inch by inch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiomike Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 More like yard by yard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motocat12 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 (edited) Apparently there were subsidized landlines long before Bamophones, and probably subsidized telegraphs before that. Subsidized smoke signals... did they have politicians then? Also the Ophone distributors spam craigslist to give out and charge back phones just like the relative home health care scams. Edited July 17, 2015 by motocat12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motocat12 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 And of course the democrats will have to provide computers, Macbook Pro/Ipads all around? Since the folks can't afford the $15 a mo internet service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted July 18, 2015 Report Share Posted July 18, 2015 Predictably in a couple of years the success of the program, which by then will have many faces to it, will run low on funding. It will be a crisis. Oh The humanity! And the tax will increase. The same story as any number of taxes and the always predictable results. Once it starts, it never stops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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