Senate confirms Biden FCC pick as 5 Republicans join Democrats in 55-43 vote
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Anna Gomez confirmation means "FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality."

Senate confirms Biden FCC pick as 5 Republicans join Democrats in 55-43 vote. Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”::Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    16•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Biden tried again in May with the nomination of Gomez, a State Department digital policy official who was previously deputy assistant secretary at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from 2009 to 2023.

    “If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet,” Cruz said.

    The Republican yes votes came from Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, and Todd Young of Indiana.

    Annoyed at how many vote no on a candidate as qualified and non-controversial as this," commented Harold Feld, senior VP and consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge.

    Media advocacy group Free Press said the “unprecedented 32-month delay” that deadlocked the FCC "was the result of concerted efforts by the phone, cable, and broadcast lobbies to hamstring the agency that oversees their businesses.

    Gomez’s confirmation restores the agency’s full complement of commissioners and provides a tie-breaking vote on issues related to diversifying media ownership, promoting broadband affordability and protecting the rights of Internet users."

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    • qazEnglish
      24•1 year ago

      “If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet,” Cruz said.

      This is complete nonsense and I fail to believe he isn’t aware of that.

      • @[email protected]English
        14•1 year ago

        It doesn’t need to make sense. Just vaguely associate the good thing with the bad trigger words and you’ve done all you need to do to convince the kind of people who think he’s on their team.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 year ago

        Yet if he called it the affordable care act but for the internet he’d probably see an opposite reaction. People like their ACA. Years ago they found, people liked the ACA but not Obamacare. It’s just that they didn’t know they were one in the same. But they bought into the bogeyman scare tactics. Cruz knows what he’s doing and it’s definitely evil, again.