GOP leader John Boehner vows to eliminate ‘net neutrality’

How about eliminating Boehner instead?

What sucks the most is that he'll get it done. At least our generations got to see the golden days of the internet. The kids being born these days won't know the difference between a computer and a TV. Write that prophecy down so you remember where you heard it. :)

Jesus Christ, these rich fucks are really clamping-down more than usual these past few months.

Take heed, Internet citizens. Without net neutrality... everything changes...

You realize they are coming after us.They know that the Internet is the way we communicate they saw what happed in Egypt, Wisconsin & The Internet they saw how powerful social networks are so they are coming after Net Neutrality to slow us down.

Boehner doesn't have a hardon for net neutrality to ensure that mom 'n pop bookstores don't get swamped out by the bandwidth demands of marginal technology such as touchpads and 4G. Boehner has a hardon for net neutrality for the usual Neocon Republican reasons: corporations will control what websites and information streams are available either by blocking them or making them crawl so that they are available to the evil empire in much the same way the print media marched in lockstep with Duh-byuh in his runup to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Net neutrality does not exist. It is code word for govt control of content.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!! The time is now, to rise up and STOP these devilish, manipulating, scumbags!!! Email your leaders, everyday, tell them to protect the internet. Will we wait until we are on the streets like Libya? Tell your friends, co-workers, family and your state and federal leadership! I know I am, and I have and I shall continue!

GOP values = greed.

What's interesting is what Boner says Vs. what's actually going on.
He talks like he's protecting our budget, and our freedom, but in actuality, it's about letting companies install controls to give some sites more bandwidth, and less to anyone else.

It's like being an Advertising company which gives low cost advertising to big companies, and then charges the hell out of small businesses.

Republicans: Protecting big businesses at the expense of the tax pay since 1854.

This is exactly what they want. They don't want average citizens having access to the internet because it's the last place on earth to get real news and the truth. They know progressives and liberals get their info off the net. Look at all the great stories that are contributed here at Current that I don't find or see anywhere else.
People like Boner just want people to listen to FOX news only. Can't have none of that truth telling. The Reps don't like it when anyone speaks truth to power.

I wish Boner would bake inside a tanning bed and never come out!

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061115/15boehnerfacts.htm

I believe he was adopted! No Kennedy Democrat could ever tuen out as he has done! We're brain washed by our parents to believe in God, Country, Democratic thinking, and all unions! Therefore, I suspect that the man might have been "switched" at birth!

“We’re also going to do what we can to see that no taxpayer dollars are used to fund these net neutrality rules,"

This should be heeded with the utmost preoccupation as one in a series of real shots recently fired on the people by one of the many and varied parasites encroaching -slowly but surely- on the rights of the population, and should be the 3-fire alarm that break out of their spell those still lost in a maze of smoke and mirrors, and who think that things will get better without them raising a finger, a voice and a fist.

Once control of the Internet is sold to monopolies (or once the sell is completed for it is underway as we speak) kiss goodbye your capacity to communicate ideas, organize actions and fight for rights and ideals.

Since the Wikileaks socio-political eruption took place, many established institutions (governmental and private alike ) have taken note and are hard at work dreaming up ways to limit, no, to vanquish the raising clamor of freedom from our generation by dismantling and transforming the best weapon ever handed to the people to fight the abuses of power from governments and corporations apparatuses into a useless gadget merely good enough to read online the latest Donald Rumsfeld’s piece of shit “book” or watch the latest episode of American Idol.

Our choices, should we decide to remain "comfortably numb" in the face of this threat, will be limited to

Reluctantly Obey and Follow

or

Cheerfully Obey and Follow.

It’s our call, it’s our time, it is our fight.

[current background noise: Sheep, from Pink Floyd’s Animals]

I can see it coming 1st the Invasion to Irak, 2nd Citizen's United ,3rd Union Busting coming soon Internet Neutrality this is the next battle and oh boy will it be big I need to stat warning my kids

he's ridiculous...completely and utterly ridiculous

Mark my words if they get the House,the Senate and White House if people did not wake up with Citizen's United they will with this.And don't think that BONER wants to pass anything yet he knows is not going anywhere as long as the Senate and the WH is under Democratic control what he is doing is starting to sell the idea to the american people and to the hindotka's and warren merril's of the world so they can start singing OH GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER

First SCOTUS gives us "Citizen's United" ruling and now this effort to kill 'Net neutrality. Anybody see a trend? Big money rules.

Looks like Boehner is going for is corporate internet bonus........

Just for the record....

Net neutrality essentially levels the playing field for commercial websites, ensuring that a small online bookstore can still receive visitors, even if sites such as Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com are statistically more popular. Under the philosophy of net neutrality, individual Internet service providers (ISPs), search engines and major online services like Yahoo, America Online (AOL) or Google cannot restrict or filter a user's access to rival companies. AOL, for example, cannot prevent one of its subscribers from receiving email from Yahoo accounts.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-net-neutrality.htm

I get it! Boehner is a corporate porn star. I mean look at him with that fake tan and that ridiculous name. They pay good money to watch him on cspan telling it like they want to hear. They also like that he cries, gives them a sense of power.

Although I applaud the effort, net neutrality is a pipe dream.

Expecting the 'core' (service providers) to be able to perpetually scale in response to the demands of the 'edge' (smart phones, tablets, Twitter, streaming video) is simply insane.

The capital expenditure required to meet the growing bandwidth demand is simply unsustainable.

Bitch all you want. Available bandwidth is limited and some type of tiered delivery is needed to insure that streaming video requirements and 911 calls are not interrupted by email and texts.

This will not be free.

So Boehner is trying again to sell his (_o_) to the highest corporate bidder for half-off.

Just look at his face- it's obvious what sort of person the man is: nothing more, nor less than a brainless bimbo. He's a pretty face with an empty head, picked especially by his corporate backers so that idiots will vote for him and his carefully crafted message.

You'll notice that a lot of these pretty faces on the right share the same story. Brainless corporate mannequins pretending to be politicians.

Its lovely this continued tactic of the GOP to call things by the opposite names of what they really mean. For example...naming the bill "Clean Water Act" when it really means "Pay to Pollute" or even better "Water Becomes the Property of Powerful Corporations".

Net neutrality...is what it is....freedom. And yet the GOP and Mr Boner tries to convince everyone that neutrality means that we are getting a dictator.

Are they being intentionally obtuse or what?

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I find all of this quite hysterical!!! No matter how much we screamed at the radical and totally corporate whorish the tea bagging GOP had become - the clueless American voter elected them anyway!!! I can only stand by and laugh and scream at the top of my lungs: WE TOLD YOU SO... ENJOY THE IMPLOSION!!!!

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TIme to start a RECALL effort in OH for Boehner and his gavel.

The man is dangerous! He's choosing his words carefully but what he wants is for NO FCC control so the biggest providers can tamper with our current and fair to all system.

I've about had it with the GOP and their ugly step-sister ...the tea party caucus.
They campaigned on Jobs but all they want to do is DESTROY or DE-FUND everything worthwhile that has been passed into law for the last two years.

Boehner's reasoning ludicrous! I thought Boehner was in the House of Representatives, not the Ministry of Truth where they come up with slogans such as "War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery" and "Orange is a Tan". Okay, I MAY have made the last one up. But, as they say on ESPN, "C'mon man!"

i can hear the hacktavists typing already.

And next week we will be reading John Boehner vows to eliminate the Emancipation Proclamation due to his belief that it impedes on freedom and free expression!

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little thinking about Crybaby Boner. He really is an unimaginable prick.

what is it? opposite day?

Maybe it's time for a "not named or identified" group to visit Mr. Boehner?

Naw, that'd be too easy.

"GOP leader John Boehner vows to cash in on net"

"GOP leader John Boehner vows to attack freedom and free expression"

-anon

Of course he does . The free net is the greatest threat to corporate powers that now exists . We have this one chance and one only . To unify and take our destiny back from the super rich 1% .

So providers such as Comcast and Qwest can throttle whomever they want, according to Boehner. He's got it wrong. Net neutrality equals free speech, and the absence of net neutrality allows the Corporate underworld to suppress the free speech of anyone they wish - an Olbermann, perhaps, speaking of Comcast in particular? Our government wishes to limit our evil Corporate overlords' abilities to suppress free speech by blocking any content they wish and, of course, the lie Boehner must tell implies that private parties must be allowed to suppress free speech. Can you imagine if phone companies could regulate who you could telephone?

This should be a fight that puts all us in street NOW, and in the halls of Congress NOW.