FCC Chairman And Free Internet Champion Tom Wheeler To Step Down

[wildkitten]

TL; DR Get ready for more expensive internet access from entrenched monopolies and duopolies who have bought congressmen, senators, the FCC and now a President

That very last part shows how little you actually pay attention. We actually have a president, or will have on January 20th, who is NOT bought by anyone. The tech industry and Wall Street all donated to the candidate who LOST, not the one who won. In fact Trump took very few large donations, if any, and spent mostly his own money. He was also outspent by Clinton 3 to 1. So we actually have what people have been clamoring for for a long time, someone who isn't bought and paid for, who money didn't "buy" the win, yet people are still saying the same old tired things and without even thinking about it first.

Who's worse, the one being bought by special interests or the one doing the buying? Trump is already picking out rich buddies who don't give a damn about regular people to fill positions. Bernie was the only one who was truly for the people, but our corrupt system of government saw that he wouldn't get nominated.

Bernie Sanders never had a clue what was going on. Any time he was asked how he would accomplish the things he talked about, he never could answer how. All he wanted to do was give everyone everything for "free". And corrupt? Bernie himself was in on it. He never would go after Hillary for legitimate issues of concern like her emails. If pointing out that she was in violation of the law is too hard for Bernie to do then he really wasn't trying to win. And if he was so against corruption, why not point out all the conflicts Hillary had with the donations to the Clinton Foundation?

And who is Trump suppose to pick? High school drop outs? No, he has to pick successful people. And the ones he is picking are ones who realize that small business is the heart of the economy.

 

[Daekar3]

I come here for technology news, not political op-ed disguised as journalism. There is nothing unusual about Tom stepping down. This is just another smear piece written by someone grumpy their candidate lost.

Tom's, you've been warned. I've already dropped my patronage of more than one place over this nonsense. Stick to your mission or lose a reader.

 

[gggplaya]

This is all normal, Tom Wheeler is an appointee and trump has to ask him to stay or appoint someone else.

Also, toms is projecting a doom and gloom message. Fact is, no one knows what trump and the new administration wants to do.

I personally like my unlimited streaming music tablet plan on Tmobile, i hope they don't get rid of that. I have an hour commute to work, 2 hours per day and i stream spotify the whole time on Android Auto. Net Neutrality would kill it :-(

 

[Poozle]

This is obviously an opinion piece. Please add a marker for that, and read this link to why net neutrality is BAD. By forbes.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/11/13/net-neutrality-is-a-bad-idea-supported-by-poor-analogies/#631f806446a2

 

[jasonelmore]

until trump, or any other president, realizes that duo-opolies are bad, we'll continue to have crappy internet in the USA.

We need competition and free market.

 

[Poozle]

This is a thinly veiled opinion article that should either be taken down or marked as such. It is CLEARLY bias and has wrong information. The bias is towards the old fcc "leader" and is not only based on facts, nor even rumors. It is basically slander towards a new president who is not even in office yet or had a chance to do what he wants. I am horribly offended by this piece because of the lack of open mindedness, the bias, the false hope that "There's a chance that Wheeler set his resignation for Jan. 20 with the hope that the Electoral college will prevent trump from becoming president" WHAT THE F**K IS THIS GARBAGE? Who said that? You do not even have a source for that besides your own imagination. This is a tech news site, NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR POLITICAL OPINION. Keep it out of this site.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

It appears that the only source is the New York Times, which, in and of itself, is very anti-Trump.

 

[mjslakeridge]

Anything printed in the NY Times should be considered suspect as it is nothing more than the state controlled media arm of the Democrat Party. (Ditto Wash Post, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN.....)

 

[falchard]

CNN isn't really Democrat leaning anymore. They started to shift right about 4 years ago.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

CNN isn't really Democrat leaning anymore. They started to shift right about 4 years ago.

Their shift to the right has been an EPIC FAIL then. They also took to Trump Bashing and ignoring Hillary and DNC scandals. Sometimes they even made up stuff and/or ignored other facts and got caught (albeit on other subjects.) I think the only one worse than CNN in this whole mess has been MSNBC.

 

[wildkitten]

CNN isn't really Democrat leaning anymore. They started to shift right about 4 years ago.

You're joking right? That may could have been said when they had the likes of Glen Beck, but now with Van Jones being given his own show, they have gone extremely far left.

 

[ravewulf]

TL; DR Get ready for more expensive internet access from entrenched monopolies and duopolies who have bought congressmen, senators, the FCC and now a President

That very last part shows how little you actually pay attention. We actually have a president, or will have on January 20th, who is NOT bought by anyone. The tech industry and Wall Street all donated to the candidate who LOST, not the one who won. In fact Trump took very few large donations, if any, and spent mostly his own money. He was also outspent by Clinton 3 to 1. So we actually have what people have been clamoring for for a long time, someone who isn't bought and paid for, who money didn't "buy" the win, yet people are still saying the same old tired things and without even thinking about it first.

Who's worse, the one being bought by special interests or the one doing the buying? Trump is already picking out rich buddies who don't give a damn about regular people to fill positions. Bernie was the only one who was truly for the people, but our corrupt system of government saw that he wouldn't get nominated.

Bernie Sanders never had a clue what was going on. Any time he was asked how he would accomplish the things he talked about, he never could answer how. All he wanted to do was give everyone everything for "free". And corrupt? Bernie himself was in on it. He never would go after Hillary for legitimate issues of concern like her emails. If pointing out that she was in violation of the law is too hard for Bernie to do then he really wasn't trying to win. And if he was so against corruption, why not point out all the conflicts Hillary had with the donations to the Clinton Foundation?

And who is Trump suppose to pick? High school drop outs? No, he has to pick successful people. And the ones he is picking are ones who realize that small business is the heart of the economy.

"Now that Donald Trump is reportedly going to name Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as his choice for secretary of state any minute now, we can count on a predictable line of media chatter. All these CEOs! CKE Restaurants chief Andrew Puzder for labor secretary; Wilbur Ross, head of his own investment firm, for commerce secretary; former WWE CEO Linda McMahon to run the Small Business Administration; hedge fund and film company boss Steven Mnuchin for treasury secretary; and now Tillerson. It’s the most CEO-intensive cabinet ever. Can this be good for the country? Do these mega-bosses even understand ordinary people? What about conflicts of interest?" - Fortune.com

"Donald Trump paid nearly $12.5 million to his own businesses and family members during his 18-month campaign for president, a CNN review of federal reports shows." - money.CNN.com

By all means, continue sticking your head in the sand thinking Trump cares about you or small businesses.

 

[wildkitten]

TL; DR Get ready for more expensive internet access from entrenched monopolies and duopolies who have bought congressmen, senators, the FCC and now a President

That very last part shows how little you actually pay attention. We actually have a president, or will have on January 20th, who is NOT bought by anyone. The tech industry and Wall Street all donated to the candidate who LOST, not the one who won. In fact Trump took very few large donations, if any, and spent mostly his own money. He was also outspent by Clinton 3 to 1. So we actually have what people have been clamoring for for a long time, someone who isn't bought and paid for, who money didn't "buy" the win, yet people are still saying the same old tired things and without even thinking about it first.

Who's worse, the one being bought by special interests or the one doing the buying? Trump is already picking out rich buddies who don't give a damn about regular people to fill positions. Bernie was the only one who was truly for the people, but our corrupt system of government saw that he wouldn't get nominated.

Bernie Sanders never had a clue what was going on. Any time he was asked how he would accomplish the things he talked about, he never could answer how. All he wanted to do was give everyone everything for "free". And corrupt? Bernie himself was in on it. He never would go after Hillary for legitimate issues of concern like her emails. If pointing out that she was in violation of the law is too hard for Bernie to do then he really wasn't trying to win. And if he was so against corruption, why not point out all the conflicts Hillary had with the donations to the Clinton Foundation?

And who is Trump suppose to pick? High school drop outs? No, he has to pick successful people. And the ones he is picking are ones who realize that small business is the heart of the economy.

"Now that Donald Trump is reportedly going to name Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as his choice for secretary of state any minute now, we can count on a predictable line of media chatter. All these CEOs! CKE Restaurants chief Andrew Puzder for labor secretary; Wilbur Ross, head of his own investment firm, for commerce secretary; former WWE CEO Linda McMahon to run the Small Business Administration; hedge fund and film company boss Steven Mnuchin for treasury secretary; and now Tillerson. It’s the most CEO-intensive cabinet ever. Can this be good for the country? Do these mega-bosses even understand ordinary people? What about conflicts of interest?" - Fortune.com

"Donald Trump paid nearly $12.5 million to his own businesses and family members during his 18-month campaign for president, a CNN review of federal reports shows." - money.CNN.com

By all means, continue sticking your head in the sand thinking Trump cares about you or small businesses.

Yes and Hillary really cared about anyone but herself huh? I mean she goes around claiming how all women should be believed when claiming sexual harassment but led the charge against the "bimbo squad" who were accusing her husband when he was president. She was also taking money left and right from nations like Saudi Arabia who not only kill people for being homosexual but kill them by stoning. Not to mention she was the one taking money from Wall Street and the tech billionaires.

Yes, most of these are CEO's who have worked hard, who had normal starts in life, not insulated in the Hollywood bubble or from political dynasties such as the Kennedy's and not only have zero clue about middle America but openly mock it as the Podesta emails proved. For all your bashing of these CEO's, tell us who he should appoint? High school dropouts? Failures?

It's amazing your side bashes Trump for inexperience, yet supported people in Obama and Hillary, neither of whom has any clue or experience with any experience middle America has.

 

[ravewulf]

Who's worse, the one being bought by special interests or the one doing the buying? Trump is already picking out rich buddies who don't give a damn about regular people to fill positions. Bernie was the only one who was truly for the people, but our corrupt system of government saw that he wouldn't get nominated.

Bernie Sanders never had a clue what was going on. Any time he was asked how he would accomplish the things he talked about, he never could answer how. All he wanted to do was give everyone everything for "free". And corrupt? Bernie himself was in on it. He never would go after Hillary for legitimate issues of concern like her emails. If pointing out that she was in violation of the law is too hard for Bernie to do then he really wasn't trying to win. And if he was so against corruption, why not point out all the conflicts Hillary had with the donations to the Clinton Foundation?

And who is Trump suppose to pick? High school drop outs? No, he has to pick successful people. And the ones he is picking are ones who realize that small business is the heart of the economy.

"Now that Donald Trump is reportedly going to name Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as his choice for secretary of state any minute now, we can count on a predictable line of media chatter. All these CEOs! CKE Restaurants chief Andrew Puzder for labor secretary; Wilbur Ross, head of his own investment firm, for commerce secretary; former WWE CEO Linda McMahon to run the Small Business Administration; hedge fund and film company boss Steven Mnuchin for treasury secretary; and now Tillerson. It’s the most CEO-intensive cabinet ever. Can this be good for the country? Do these mega-bosses even understand ordinary people? What about conflicts of interest?" - Fortune.com

"Donald Trump paid nearly $12.5 million to his own businesses and family members during his 18-month campaign for president, a CNN review of federal reports shows." - money.CNN.com

By all means, continue sticking your head in the sand thinking Trump cares about you or small businesses.

Yes and Hillary really cared about anyone but herself huh? I mean she goes around claiming how all women should be believed when claiming sexual harassment but led the charge against the "bimbo squad" who were accusing her husband when he was president. She was also taking money left and right from nations like Saudi Arabia who not only kill people for being homosexual but kill them by stoning. Not to mention she was the one taking money from Wall Street and the tech billionaires.

Yes, most of these are CEO's who have worked hard, who had normal starts in life, not insulated in the Hollywood bubble or from political dynasties such as the Kennedy's and not only have zero clue about middle America but openly mock it as the Podesta emails proved. For all your bashing of these CEO's, tell us who he should appoint? High school dropouts? Failures?

It's amazing your side bashes Trump for inexperience, yet supported people in Obama and Hillary, neither of whom has any clue or experience with any experience middle America has.

If you'll notice, I never defended Hillary. Yeah, she's bought. As is maybe 90% or more of the Democrats and 100% of the Republicans. The people who bought her are the same people Trump wants in his administration. Also it's hilarious that you think CEOs have any idea what middle America is going through. They've kept our wages stagnant for decades even as worker productivity has been consistently rising over the same period.

 

[Poozle]

"middle America" isn't going through a rough time in comparison to anywhere else in the world.

 

[therealduckofdeath]

Trickle Down Economy 101: "How you like us pissing on you"