When the federal government ended net neutrality, statists declared this was the end of the world. Moving forward, nobody was going to have access to the Internet anymore, it was going to cost you to access every website, and somehow civilization as we know it was coming to an end.
Has this been the case without net neutrality? Hardly.
In fact, according to the latest Federal Communications Commission (FCC) data, more Americans have high-speed Internet than ever before.
Here is what the report shows:
– The number of Americans lacking access to broadband Internet fell from 26.1 million to 19.4 million.
– Rural Americans are benefiting the most as majority of the gains were made in these areas.
– Broadband providers have increased their capital expenditures, after two consecutive years of declines.
Overall, the number of Americans with access to 250 Mbps/50 Mbps surged by 45 percent to 205.2 million.
“For the past two years, closing the digital divide has been the FCC’s top priority…We’ve been tackling this problem by removing barriers to infrastructure investment, promoting competition, and providing efficient, effective support for rural broadband expansion through our Connect America Fund,” said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in the press release.
NN was never meant to support you.
From Liberty Nation:
Unfortunately for Schumer and his allies, net neutrality does not help those everyday consumers, but rather enables greater monopolistic powers and less competition. Net neutrality is a gift to Silicon Valley and tech lobbyists, not the typical household. Thankfully, FCC head Ajit Pai sees through the pleas and myths, and this is one of the best domestic maneuvers of the Trump administration – for several reasons.
First, many of the doom and gloom scenarios proposed by advocates of net neutrality are unfounded. There may be concerns that Comcast would block Netflix to encourage subscribers to purchase paid-TV packages, but there are two federal agencies that would prevent that from occurring since it violates competition laws.
Second, there is very little incentive for ISPs to adopt that type of policy because most consumers want an Internet without any hurdles, walls, and blockades. (Religious ISPs are exempted.) This has been the case for 20-plus years.
Third, the government can never know the so-called correct prices for Internet service.
And finally, if President Trump is a tyrannical dictator as many on the left suggest, why would you want him to be in charge of the Internet?
Yeesh. In the age of President Donald Trump, how many times has the world supposed to explode? We have supposed to die at least a dozen times now.
The USA is collapsing.
The US is in debt, is conducting multiple wars, is a police state, is flooded by illegal immigrants, and has become immoral.
Americans are either ignoring the decay or think that nothing can be done to stop the decline. Almost no one thinks the US can be saved.
No one appears to be worried about tyranny because liberals think the police state only applies to conservatives and conservatives think the police state only affects liberals.
The truth seems to be that the elites want to wipe out the strong white men and plan to send the weak liberals to the gulags where they will be starved and killed. The 1% will then divide the wealth and land of the US among themselves.
How else can you explain the destruction of the USA? Economics isn’t rocket science. If you want a strong economy, don’t punish hard work with taxes and regulations while rewarding laziness with welfare and allowing millions of 3rd world immigrants to flood the country.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/psychopathy_and_politics.html
Those fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Sadly Americans won’t realize what is happening until it is too late.
Never underestimate the inhumanity of man towards man. Greed has no bounds.
Wake up.
Think.
Pass the word.