"Consider"

Editor,

Tom Wheeler is one man. Before becoming chairman of the FCC he was a lobbyist for the cable industry -- the very industry he is supposed to regulate.

In true Orwellian doublespeak Tom Wheeler says he supports an "open and free" Internet. But "open and free" means the exact opposite to a corporate lobbyist than it does to anyone else.

To a corporate lobbyist it means open and free for advancing the interests of the biggest, richest, most powerful enterprises on this planet, not open and free for every human being who uses the Internet.

If Tom Wheeler represented the interests of human beings, we would not even be having this conversation. There would be no "debate." The idea would be patently ridiculous to the chairman of the FCC (!) that the open and free flow of information could be throttled for financial and political gain by corporate entities that despise democracy and whose stated aim is to put as much money in their own pockets as they possibly can.

Something is very wrong with our political system when the president of the USA has to beg a corporate lobbyist with his hands on the levers of democratic access to information to "consider" his opinion.

Re: "Obama Urges F.C.C. to Adopt Strict Rules on Net Neutrality" (11/11/2014)