Tom Wheeler who's the head of the FCC has been in front of congress a long time now
they've had him up there for eight days of hearings on net neutrality it's fifth and
final congressional hearing he's having to explain I'm trying to keep the internet as
it is well knuckleheads like Louie Gohmert just can't understand it so he's going to
go on the war path here he's going to ask a question first and then he's not going to
like the answer and then he's going to get all worked up let's watch what from congress
asked the FCC to look at rules regarding the internet the 1996 telecommunications act oh
so it was recent that was 19 years ago you ceased on that to say congress was asking
you to look at the internet 19 years later well I would submit to you that something
in 1996 had nothing to do with wanting you to take charge of the internet and I would
also thank you for your willingness to leave some room for exploratory business models
and new business models that's really so gracious of you because before the FCC stepped in everybody
was able to explore new business models the only difference is now you're playing god
with the internet saying I want this we'll leave some room for you to come up with new
business models that's not your job the court said that in January 2014 and you can change
the wording around but it doesn't change the facts and congress is not asking you was not
asking you to take over the internet so of us most of us in the House and most of us
in the Senate do not want you to decide who gets to develop a new business model and who
cannot god he gets so worked up trying to defend his corporate overlords of course that
was monumentally wrong the government is not taking over the internet they're protecting
the internet as it is today the whole point of the regulation is to keep it as it is today
keep it neutral so that corporations can't come in and slow down certain websites in
fact here let me give you a quote about how this works in reality from The National Journal
the rules bar Internet providers from blocking websites selectively slowing down traffic
or creating any special fast lanes for sites that pay more OK so that they're preventing
a take over the internet by Comcast and the other guys who are cable providers the AT&T's
the Verizon's etc. so they can't slow down all the internet now all the people who are
incredibly wealthy who are investors in these internet projects it's not like they're going
to get it wrong they have a vested interest they have come out and said no no no the Louie
Gohmert's of the world are dead wrong the what the FCC's doing is protecting the internet
as it is not taking it over OK and we know cause we've got millions and billions of dollars
tied up on this and the FCC is right net neutrality keeps the internet as it is Louie Gohmert
and the rest of the Republicans are dead wrong and they're misleading you on purpose the
one part that he was right about is well you know you're preventing new exploratory business
models what does he mean by that he means well the cable providers and internet providers
would get to explore with a new business model where they slow down all the other websites
and they slow and they speed up theirs and they speed up the people who pay them the
ransom that's a new business model they'd like to explore why won't you let them explore
that they're paying me a lot of money they give me all these campaign donations to let
them explore that model where they get to have a monopoly and they get to control our
internet completely why won't you let my beloved corporations take over the internet and crush
it it's an exploratory new business model yes we are supposed to prevent that and yes
that is his job he said that's not your job as the head of the FCC that's exactly his
job but my favorite part was this you're playing god with the internet what does that mean
exactly you're playin' god wit the internet that doesn't make any sense he's saying OK
I'm going to keep the internet as it is as it's regulated that's exactly my job and I'm
going to make that nobody else messes with the internet but since he this religious fundamentalist
goofball you know Cruz called it Obamacare for the internet like trying to find a way
to demonize it I'm surprised they haven't called it the Benghazi of the internet yet
and this guy's got to bring god into playing god with the internet give it to me one more
time you're playing god with the internet you goofball crony capitalist