To those concerned with the present & future of a free and competitive America,
       
There is no tell so obvious as to what the Chairman of the US FCC Ajit Pai are ramrodding down the throats of US citizen than the medium he used to roll out and explain his stake in the so-called Restoring Internet Freedom proposal, "How the FCC Can Save the Open Internet."[1] Whatever this piece contains, whatever his thoughts are, most people will not know, because they will not have the ability to access or read his thoughts: this piece is behind a paywall. Which is what ISPs will be able to do to consumers, and what ISPs will be able to do to competitors like Netflix when they arrive on the scene, if given the Freedom Ajit prescribes.

This posting to paywalled site is the most perfect & total reflection of what Restoring Internet Freedom is about- a set of rules that permit gatekeepers to charge money for access to specific pieces of content as they so desire. But unlike the Wallstreet Journal, which is obviously an information service, one that stores and makes available information upon request, Ajit is proposing we give this power to discriminate and charge to the Internet Service Providers between my computer and, for example, the Wallstreet Journal. This power is grounded in pure fantasy that the ISP is also an information service, just like the Wallstreet Journal, and not- as in fact they are- a telecommunication provider.  The conception that ISPs are more than telecommunications providers, that they process or store information, is absurd. No effort have been made to assert this far fetched claim. If we tabulated the amount of web page renders than ISP generates, or the terabytes of content they own versus the rest of the internet, we could see the clear, absurd, vulgarness of this unbelievable lie. That Ajit doesn't see the value in Open Internet is clear, because he didn't even bother putting his thoughts on the matter on the Open Internet itself- he left it locked away, and his proposal, through this gross misconstruing of ISPs as Information Services, is a deliberate and obviously false misconstrual that bears no resemblance to fact.
        
The FCC could not be more wrong about this matter. Let's look specifically at the FCC's paragraph 27 of Restoring Internet Freedom Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, where we find the core issue explaining the FCC's position:
       
We believe that Internet service providers offer the “capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications.” Whether posting on social media or drafting a blog, a broadband Internet user is able to generate and make available information online. Whether reading a newspaper’s website or browsing the results from a search engine, a broadband Internet user is able to acquire and retrieve information online. Whether it’s an address book or a grocery list, a broadband Internet user is able to store and utilize information online. Whether uploading filtered photographs or translating text into a foreign language, a broadband Internet user is able to transform and process information online. In short, broadband Internet access service appears to offer its users the “capability” to perform each and every one of the functions listed in the definition—and accordingly appears to be an information service by definition.
       
The FCC conflates access to the Open Internet, the ability to commune over distance with the various and ranging elements of the internet, with the telecommunication provider itself that provides the link to these actual services. Your ISP doesn't store or access or retrieve a newspaper, or a blog post, or browse search engines, or address book or grocery lists. It doesn't store a user's uploaded photos. These are all indeed the activities of Information Services, but not a one of these activities it lists are done by the ISP in question, the entity regulated presently under in Title II. The ISP merely provides telecommunication services to allow us to communicate and commune with other information services.
        
That the FCC knows less about the Internet than a 5th grader is insulting. No one backing the Restoring Internet Freedom proposal should ever be allowed to work anywhere near technology ever again. That the American people have to be subject to this ridiculous circus, which a cursory analysis of their work reveals, is a travesty, and a damage to the civic structure of our nation. Everyone involved should be fired for such wrong-headed and meanspiritedly bad work against the American people. God save America.
        
[1] wsj.com/articles/how-the-fcc-can-save-the-open-internet-1511281099