What concerns me the way it sounds like what pushed in that direction was comments and the millions of often autogenerated, very short and not particularly or in anyway, rigorous comments from many, many commenters who said you know this is terrible, you need to go to title 2. He points to what changed, what he learned in the interim, its that four million, he says, commenters said we want title 2 and so did the president. But i think, at least from my per spektsive as a prak tigs to space, the key issue for chairman wheeler would be whether he explains it well enough in the dock et when hes faced with an apel lat court thats reviewing that. It kind of gets me to my earlier point that this rulemaking itself is not in a vacuum. Its actually a remanned essentially, from the verizon case, which itself was a reaction to the comcast case before that. Ed. So its not without a fwraet deal of prior work that hes operating. I think thats an interpretation. Not everyone is in agreement that the
Same area. They too are concerned. Any sense, that may be a good thing. Their strength is going to be if they can act collectively. What the chinese are doing here, in one case, building airfields so that they can launch aircraft to do patrols and surveillance. Further exerted what they consider their sovereignty over the south china sea. It has been impressive in the last year or year and a half since they have been doing this. As they pursued drilling. Which has caused conflict with the vietnamese. This is a worrisome trend of the chinese because of the tensions it is going to create in the south china sea. They have been very aggressive about it. You have not only the kit bodhi be to build an airfield but weapon systems capability to build an airfield but also weapon systems. It will be interesting to see what they do. Our attention is on other parts of the world. This is really quite a major step on their part. I thank you for helping us out on it. One question and react in reactio
Preemption of state laws by an agency is going to survive a Court Challenge and were there other routes you considered . Were there other what . Other routes to reaching the goal . Routes. So as we laid out in the discussion, what were dealing with is a situation where the states said to the localities, you have the authority to do this. And then put in place barriers to keep them from exercising that. Section 706 explicitly says to us, take away barriers to broadband deployment. And so we did take away those barriers, but did not go to the overall state authority that in fact said to those folks you have the ability to do this. Jim with the l. A. Times. There have been a number of allegations both on capitol hill and by commissioner pai that president obama influenced improperly influenced this proposal. Did the president or anyone at the white house either dictate to or influence your proposal . Thanks for asking that question, jim. The president has been well known, on record, for a
Work led to the president announcement in november of the plan for internet regulation, a plan which the report said blindsided them right chairman wheeler for the compromise. And of course a few insiders were quizzed him about what was transpiring. Heres what a leader for the governmentfunded group fight for the feature had to say. We have been hearing for weeks from our allies that the only thing that can stop tom wheeler from moving ahead with this sham proposal to get Net Neutrality is if we could get the president to step in. So we did everything in our power to make that happen. And now we get to celebrate. Congratulations. And what the press has caught called opened the door to a plethora of special interest activates. Fight for the future free press and Public Knowledge just to name a few. And indeed even before activists were blocking determine straggly late last year, some of them had met with executive branch officials. What about the rest of the American People . They certa
Thank you for the opportunity to address you at what is a critical moment for the future of internet. More than anything else, the action that you take today will preserve the permissionless invasion invasion. Let me explain. The web was invented 25 years ago. To people and let them run on computers which were connected to the internet. All that was necessary for those computers were plugged in to internet. They were then communicating. Didnt have to ask anybodys permission. Frome1 this, the worldwide web spread to reach all the corners of the global and connected world, enabling hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Growth and enhanced free speech and democracy around the world. Didnt have to get permission from anybody to introduce a thing. I didnt have to pay isp and special fees. I didnt have to convince c should be let through. If it would be good for their business. I didnt have to worry they would block it because it was compete competing with the businesses they have. So,