{"id":5657,"date":"2010-06-10T17:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2010-06-10T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T22:58:16","slug":"91-of-americans-satisfied-with-broadband-speed-yet-fcc-continues-to-push-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5657\/91-of-americans-satisfied-with-broadband-speed-yet-fcc-continues-to-push-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"91% of Americans Satisfied With Broadband Speed, Yet FCC Continues to Push &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time that a scientific survey reported 91% agreement on <em>anything<\/em>, other than that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D &#8211; Nevada) is a really creepy guy?<\/p>\n<p>Yet that&#8217;s precisely the consensus contained in <a href=\"http:\/\/hraunfoss.fcc.gov\/edocs_public\/attachmatch\/DOC-298525A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a survey<\/a> released by the very Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that continues to push so-called &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; despite overwhelming public, judicial and bipartisan Congressional opposition.\u00a0 According to the FCC itself, nine out of ten respondents are happy with their broadband speed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fully 91% of broadband users say they are &#8216;very&#8217; or &#8216;somewhat&#8217; satisfied with the speed they get at home.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet the FCC continues to concoct an imaginary broadband crisis just around the corner as an alibi for proposed &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; regulation.<\/p>\n<p>With this reality staring it straight in the face, why does the FCC persist in pushing &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; upon the American public?\u00a0 Also consider that the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4633\/court-of-appeals-rejects-fcc-authority-to-impose-net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\">does not possess authority<\/a> to impose &#8220;Net Neutrality,&#8221; which merely triggered the FCC shenanigan of announcing that it would reclassify Internet service under <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5109\/rerports-obamas-fcc-will-revert-to-new-deal-era-laws-to-impose-net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\">Depression-era rules<\/a> created to govern 1930s landline telephones.\u00a0 Also consider that the public opposes &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; by a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4716\/poll-americans-oppose-net-neutrality-by-2-to-1-margin-53-to-27\/\" target=\"_blank\">two-to-one margin<\/a> (a dramatic turnaround since 2008), and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress sent <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5437\/congress-to-fcc-abandon-plans-to-take-over-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\">separate letters<\/a> to the FCC opposing this atrocious proposal.<\/p>\n<p>None of this seems to interrupt Chairman Julius Genachowski and his slim FCC majority.\u00a0 &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; will be defeated, whether via judicial, Congressional or administrative avenues.\u00a0 But how long will it take for Genachowski to wake up and smell that coffee?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time that a scientific survey reported 91% agreement on anything, other than that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D &#8211; Nevada) is a really creepy guy? 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