WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM) – As the Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to end its net neutrality rules, the debate apparently won’t stop.
Supporters of net neutrality say ending the rules will give Internet service providers too much control over web traffic, and an online petition drive by Democratic Congressional challenger Dr. Rob Davidson asking Republican incumbent Bill Huizenga of Zeeland and his Capital Hill colleagues to intervene is going to fall on deaf ears.”What the Obama Administration did is (that) they literally went back to (a) 1930’s utility law that was set up to regulate Ma Bell, and then layer that onto the Internet,” Huizenga said in his weekly “WHTC Morning News” interview. “That is not how we got a dynamic Internet, that is not how we got a free and open Internet, so this is completely the wrong direction to go.”
“A free and open Internet is vital to American competition in a global economy,” the Spring Lake-based emergency room physician Davidson said in a statement. “Folks across West Michigan count on an open, free and uncensored Internet, and these are the folks Congressman Bill Huizenga should be working for.”
In remarks before the straight-line 3-2 party vote, Democratic FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel warned that the ruling will be aggressively challenged in court before it can be enacted.
