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Tech at Night: Obama’s tax avoiding corporate buddies. Global Internet regulations are just following the Obama model.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  December 11th, 2012 at 12:47 AM  | 

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They told me that if I voted for Mitt Romney, that corporations with ties to the President would offshore billions of dollars to avoid paying taxes! Did Obama and Schmidt even feel guilty as Obama said one thing, while working with Google who was doing the opposite?

Because remember: as I’ve been saying all along, The global Internet regulations the ITU is threatening are in the spirit of the Obama- and Schmidt-backed Internet regulations we’ve seen the last four years!

And let’s be clear: the Obama administration isn’t done regulating now that the second term is coming.

CLECS, aka competitive local phone companies, want more regulation of the Internet and are using a nifty code word for it: “packet mode.” They want you to think Internet communications are just like voice communications, just sending data packets instead of voice signals. Cool story, bros, but that’s contradicting the bipartisan Telecommunications Act 1996 that deregulated, and helped foster the Internet boom creating jobs and prosperity.

So let’s just hope that FCC gets pulled back in the Net Neutrality case, because the Open Internet order really should be ruled as outside the body’s statutory scope.

I like to see that House Republicans like Greg Walden are supporting FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who understands the need for regulations to lay off and let innovation happen, including the IP revolution of bringing phone service up to Internet-era standards.

Government is dictating black boxes in cars by regulatory fiat. Let’s call it Car Neutrality.

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  • http://www.bigcontrarian.com Jack

    Google isn’t doing anything wrong, legally, as far as I can tell. Anyone who gets mad at them for the shelters is being ridiculous. I can understand people being mad at the tax laws which allow this, but not at the companies which exploit them. Of course they’re going to exploit them.

    I also fail to see the conflation between the ITU proposal and Net Neutrality. One sought to ensure that corporations could not impose undue restrictions on what type of applications were allowed on the internet, or how they were treated, thus preserving entrepreneurship, innovation and the continued disruption of stale industries.

    The ITU proposal seeks to take control of the internet from the United States, the country which invented the goddamn thing, and which has shown immense good stewarship of it, and give it an international organization whose members include nations which regularly censor the net.

    They’re not even remotely in the same spirit.

  • http://www.bigcontrarian.com Jack

    Based on a re-reading, I’m not entirely sure you had one?

  • PowerToThePeople

    Poor jack, life must be tough for you. I could not stand to be so challenged on the comprehension side of life.

    When dogs have been licked, they tuck tail and run. You could learn much from that practice, it would save you further embarrassment.

  • http://www.bigcontrarian.com Jack

    I’m not sure a non-rebuttal and a bad canine analogy amount to much of a “licking”.