Contact Your Financial Adviser Money Making MC
29
November 2017
 |
Twitter(The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions)
Following
a letter in which Twitter along with others had asked US Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) to reconsider its plan to end net neutrality, the agency's
Indian-origin Chairman Ajit Pai has dubbed the micro-blogging site as a
"part of the problem".
During
an event hosted by the "free market think tank" R Street Institute
and the "liberty"-focused Lincoln Network, Pai threw Twitter and
other online services under the bus to show that it is not just broadband
providers that can exert control over Internet content, Tech Crunch reported
late on Tuesday.
"When
it comes to an open Internet, Twitter is part of the problem. The company has a
viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate," he was quoted as
saying.
"Twitter
blocked Representative Marsha Blackburn from advertising her Senate campaign
launch video because it featured a pro-life message. Before that, during the
so-called Day of Action, Twitter warned users that a link to a statement by one
company on the topic of Internet regulation 'may be unsafe'," he added.
"And
to say the least, the company appears to have a double standard when it comes
to suspending or de-verifying conservative users' accounts as opposed to those
of liberal users. This conduct is many things, but it isn't fighting for an
open Internet," he noted.
On
Monday, over 200 businesses asked FCC to reconsider its plan to end net
neutrality after the agency announced voting to rollback rules adopted in 2015
that require internet service providers to treat all online traffic equally.
As
per current net neutrality rules, all businesses are allowed to compete
equally. But without those rules, online businesses may be stymied by internet
providers that prioritise their own interests, the companies said.
The
FCC will vote on the proposal, known as Restoring Internet Freedom Order, at
its December 14 open meeting.
Pai
highlighted two downsides to the present rules -- decrease in investment and
stifle innovation.
Pai
last week had said that the so-called net neutrality rules "imposed
heavy-handed, utility-style regulations" upon the internet that have
"depressed investment in building and expanding broadband networks".
On
content, he said that recent experience shows that so-called edge providers are
deciding what content consumers see. These providers routinely block or
discriminate against content they do not like.
"In
this way, edge providers are a much bigger actual threat to an open Internet
than broadband providers, especially when it comes to discrimination on the basis
of viewpoint… So let'ss be clear," he said.
"They
might cloak their advocacy in the public interest, but the real interest of
these Internet giants is in using the regulatory process to cement their
dominance in the Internet economy," he added.The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
No comments:
Post a Comment