Quote:It's important that they get classified as utilities. The ability of for profit companies to be able to control the free and independent flow of the world's information in this current age is as dangerous as if they could control the flow of power or water. Hence the reason those are regulated in this manner. 

 

They have already said they wont implement "price fixing" type regulations, so they will continue to be able to charge obscene rates (compared to the rest of the world) while providing no new value to the costumer. It is also likely they will maintain their strangle hold on competition. I actually don't understand why republicans are so up in arms over this, other than Obama said it so we MUST condemn it. As far as I understand it, all this does is keep them from being able to charge Netflix more or they slow down the speeds. 

 

The more I'm reading up on this the more it makes sense to qualify it as a utility. I haven't seen a good reason not to, other then like you said Obama said to do it so the natural reaction is to oppose it from Republicans.

 

Like I was saying my only concern was if putting the internet under the FCC would put content under the FCC control but that doesn't seem to be the case.

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