clemahieu’s Comments

• Apr 24th, 2019 @ 9:55am

  Or

  on Why The Hell Are States Still Passing ISP-Written Laws Banning Community Broadband?

  Why, through the last 3 years of trumpeting the FCC, did you think the government would preserve internet freedom vs. co-opt it?

  They’re not looking out for individual freedom of speech, and historically they never have been.

• Apr 18th, 2019 @ 2:07pm

  No more federal

  on Don't Force Web Platforms To Silence Innocent People
• Apr 2nd, 2019 @ 9:33am

  Confusing

  on The FTC Says It's Totally Cool With Anti-Competitive Internet Fast Lanes

  It’s utterly confusing how these articles supporting government control of the internet keep getting written.

  Based on the evidence, every single time they’ve intervened they undermine and ruin the internet’s functionality. DMCA, SOPA, PIPA, cookie notifications, GDPR, right to be forgotten, article 13.

  For all the hypothetical damage companies could do, that’s never happened since the internet was created, it’s dwarfed the actual, very large amount of damage governments have done the very few times they’ve actually intervened.

  You will never control the regulators that write laws about the internet. They will always, and have always used it as a means to control information. I urge you to change your mind on government intervention on the internet.

• Sep 23rd, 2017 @ 10:14pm

  (untitled comment)

  on California Sides With Comcast, Votes To Kill Broadband Privacy Law Favored By EFF
  I'll stick with free markets where I get 85% of what I want with 0 effort instead of running myself ragged trying to get the government to do it.
• Aug 24th, 2017 @ 8:56am

  Customer service

  on EFF, Others Think It Would Be Cool If The FCC Stopped Hiding 47,000 Net Neutrality Complaints
  Telecoms: still better customer service than the FCC.
• Jul 20th, 2017 @ 6:14pm

  .

  on Supposed Stickler For Transparency, FCC Boss Won't Release Net Neutrality Complaints
  This seems like a datapoint under "why the FCC wouldn't be able to manage an open internet"
• Jul 12th, 2017 @ 9:54pm

  .

  on The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality
  From my perspective: complaining about trolls really shows how little experience you have with the internet.
• May 24th, 2017 @ 10:22am

  Improvement incentives

  on The FCC Doesn't Care That Somebody's Spamming Its Net Neutrality Proceeding With Fraudulent Comments
  How ever bad we think customer service is from ISPs, government customer service is far worse.
  
  How ever little control we feel we have over ISPs, we have even less control over the FCC.
  
  Government net neutrality is utter foolishness.
• Mar 23rd, 2017 @ 12:10pm

  Where to from here?

  on Congress Just Voted To Kill Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections
  Are we done deluding ourselves in to thinking a government agency will protect the internet or roughly how long do we need to keep wasting our time?
• Feb 24th, 2017 @ 12:40pm

  Unconstitutional

  on Federal Election Commission Member Quits, Says Agency Refuses To Address Campaign Finance Violations
  It's illegal for the federal government to regulate elections, they've been given no authority to do so.
• Jan 20th, 2017 @ 12:24pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Report: President Trump Picks Former Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai To Head FCC
  Remember how people said the FCC would succumb to regulatory capture? This is regulatory capture.
  
  It's be nice if people didn't have goldfish political memories.
• Jan 13th, 2017 @ 7:08pm

  Doing nothing is easy

  on FCC Report Clearly Says AT&T & Verizon Are Violating Net Neutrality -- And Nobody Is Going To Do A Damn Thing About It
  It's easy to not enforce a law. For instance the constitution says the FCC can't exist but here we are.
• Jan 10th, 2017 @ 11:05am

  (untitled comment)

  on Verizon Cracks Down On Unlimited Data Users, Claims Nobody Wants Unlimited Data Anyway
  From what I've seen Verizon has done a ton to allow grandfathered plans, years after no longer offering them.
  
  Products get phased out everywhere, all the time.
• Dec 15th, 2016 @ 2:21pm

  Very predictable

  on FCC Boss Tom Wheeler Resigns, Signaling The Beginning Of The End For Net Neutrality
  I've wrote multiple times about how Net Neutrality efforts would ultimately be in vain due to voter overload and regulatory capture.
  
  Having a top-down organization creating all the rules **will** **not** **work**.
  
  All this effort pushing FCC net neutrality was wasted when we should have been focusing on state and municipal level support for eliminating monopolies. Had we been doing this from the start we'd be a lot farther along now but this FCC failed detour has cost us a considerable amount of time.
• Dec 1st, 2016 @ 12:18pm

  Regulatory capture always happens

  on Trump Appoints Third Anti-Net Neutrality Advisor To Telecom Transition Team
  It seems all the effort spent giving one organization power to control communication, which predictively succame to regulatory capture, could have been spent making sure no one has control over communication, like state-advocacy to dismantle state and municipal barriers to providing communications services.
• Nov 14th, 2016 @ 12:38pm

  Voter exhaustion

  on Too Little Too Late: FCC Finally Realizes AT&T's Zero Rating Is Anti-Competitive
  Given the number of political things people need to focus on now, how can we expect anyone except a handful of people to understand nuanced legislation like this?
  
  Considering who's in charge of the FCC now, giving the government control over any part of the internet has been, and continues to be a huge mistake.
  
  Whatever damage companies can do to the internet, the government can do worse.
• Oct 12th, 2016 @ 12:19pm

  So, taxes?

  on FCC: Comcast Routinely Charges Customers For Hardware, Services Never Ordered
  That's funny, this happens to me all the time it's called taxes.
  
  Why would I want the FCC to have more control?
• Sep 29th, 2016 @ 12:36pm

  Wambulance?

  on The FCC Wants To Know Why Journalists Had To Pay $200 For WiFi At Presidential Debate
  It's super easy for me to not pay for something I don't think is worth the price.
  
  Put your big boy pants on Karl, the world doesn't center around your every whim.
• Sep 15th, 2016 @ 1:31pm

  Lack of authority

  on This Bill Could Stop Protectionist State Broadband Laws, But ISP Control Over Congress Means It Won't Pass
  The US congress also has no authority to make limit state laws for things not written in to the constitution so even if it was passed, it would be challenged and likely struck down.
  
  Again, focusing on broadband laws at the state level will be a much better use of time because they're easier to pass and won't be struck down.
• Sep 8th, 2016 @ 10:19am

  Trust in central planning is always a letdown.

  on AT&T's Already Happily Tap Dancing Around Its DirecTV Merger Obligations
  Billions of products in free markets are delivered and improved each day since there's a profit incentive for being better than your competitors.
  
  This central planning debacle is failing even the most rudimentary promise not even a year from its inception.
  
  Again, focusing at the state level at removing monopolistic laws (a problem created by government) will open up the industry to free market benefits.

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