Our Progressive President is getting ready to drop another rock on the "Gold Over People" (GOP) Party in the form of an executive action that will encourage true "Free Market" competition for Internet service providers and the cable industry.
There two links will give you a vision of what the president has in mind for our Internet future the second link is a Washington post story that will give you a bit of background on how this battle had been developing.
CNN Money-Chattanooga's super-fast publicly owned Internet
WP-Cable companies want to block cities from building fiber networks. Here’s how the FCC could intervene.
Now let’s see how long it takes the big cable Company trolls to begin screaming foul. Watch them make claims that this will be blocking their "Free Market” rights to create Cable monopolies any time anywhere they wish..
Yesterday in a "exclusive leak" to Upworthy president Obama announced plans for Promoting Community Broadband
"Building on his net neutrality plan, today in Cedar Falls, Iowa President Obama announced steps he will discuss in the State of the Union to help more Americans, in more communities around the country, get access to fast and affordable broadband. Communities like Cedar Falls have banded together to commit to broadband that works by bringing in new competition, leveraging municipal investments, and forming new partnerships to bring world-class Internet to places like this small Iowa town"
"The reason why Cedar Falls has such crazy-fast Internet?
They got together as a community and built their own public network.
And they run it like a utility. So the same way that you pay the heating bill or the gas bill, you pay an Internet bill. And because the whole city pitched in, they're able to offer fiber-optic networks' blazing fast speeds."
5 Things You Need to Know About President Obama’s Broadband Announcement Today
for a more detailed FACT SHEET: Broadband That Works: Promoting Competition & Local Choice In Next-Generation Connectivity
Obama is now pitting true "Free Market" Values against the "Corporate Protectionism" of the Republican Congress. time to get your Popcorn out, this is going to be good.