Biden’s FTC Pick Will Boost China!, 3554

3 years ago
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Good morning, I’m still reporting on the coup.
The great thing about reporting on diverse fields is that when you do go down the wrong road, faithful viewers will soon let you know about it so that a course correction can be applied.
Such is the case with our last report number 3553, “Biden May Be Doing Something Good???” with 3 question marks.
The three question marks should have told you everything you needed to know about how sure I was that Biden WAS up to something good. But what it also should have told you is that I was unsure of exactly what was going on here.

But it didn't take long for my old friend, Mr wizard from Southern California , to chime in, and now I am reasonably well informed on the topic of “net neutrality “.
Net neutrality was a pet project of Barack Obama, and a dream project of Democrat Party politicians. Therefore, pretty much by definition, it would be an absolute disaster for free Internet access and innovation.
Net neutrality would drive up Internet access costs, limit innovation and tech advances, reduce access to high speed Internet , and force extensive government regulation. according to Mr wizard :
“Net Neutrality makes it so that the only technology available in the U.S. becomes 20 years obsolete in less than 2 years. It is no different than HR1 and HR5, trying to force ‘equality’ for the sake of the ‘common people’ (namely the Democrat Party), while making it too expensive for the middle class, and companies in need of the faster speeds unable to get them due to over regulation.”
For example, broadband speeds are nice to have, but not economically viable for cable providers to immediately make available to everyone, everywhere. If you really need the speed – like folks who upload videos regularly – there are ways you can get it, but you have to pay for it. That’s always been the cost of being on the leading edge of technology and everyone knows it.
For example, on our first weekly live podcast last Friday at 7pm eastern, veteran reporter John Hammer, didn’t realize that his internet speed in his office would not support a live video stream until we tested it live. His video fell apart and we had to resort to turning it off because there was only enough bandwidth to support his audio.
So, the fix was not to cite new Net Neutrality rules and therefore demand that the cable provider make higher-speed internet available in every corner of his property for no increase in price; which is probably what Net Neutrality rules would demand – the quick fix was to buy a reel of CAT 7 ethernet cable to run it from his existing modem out directly into his laptop in his office. Problem solved through good ole’ American ingenuity, not overbearing government regulation. So that’s point #1.

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