Man seems like I’m posting a lot about politics these days. Anyway yesterday President Obama came out in full support of net neutrality and of course the right wing backlash started almost immediately.

Republicans also are ready to go to war over the issue.
“Net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted shortly after the president’s announcement, while Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) dubbed the president’s proposal “a Trojan horse for a government takeover of the Internet.”

Obama’s vision would reclassify broadband as a public utility under Title II of the Communications Act, broadening the agency’s authority over Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon. He called for a ban on “paid prioritization,” the idea of ISPs charging content companies like Netflix for Internet fast lanes to consumers.

“This is a basic acknowledgment of the services ISPs provide to American homes and businesses and the straightforward obligations necessary to ensure the network works for everyone — not just one or two companies,” the president said in the statement.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pledged that “Republicans will continue our efforts to stop this misguided scheme to regulate the Internet” in the next Congress. “Federal bureaucrats should not be in the business of regulating the Internet — not now, not ever,” he said in a statement.
Source: Politico

I LOL’ed at Senator Cruz’s comment, what does that even mean… Funny you’d think the party of the free market would be for a level playing field for everyone but no, rather it’d prefer ISPs be able to pick and choose what you can see like we have with TV channels. Industry regulation is important, look at what happened to the unregulated financial markets, it was a huge bust.

I swear if President Obama said the sky was blue, Republicans would say otherwise.