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You don't necessarily see every policy initiative a President tries to undertake. Often, policy initiatives begin in private consultation between executive staf
by jarrett 12y ago
You don't necessarily see every policy initiative a President tries to undertake. Often, policy initiatives begin in private consultation between executive staff, legislators, lawyers, and lobbyists. Sometimes, it becomes clear from those private consultations that the policy initiative cannot succeed. When that happens, it typically doesn't serve the President to publicly proclaim that failure.
So it's quite possible (and I believe probable) that the Obama administration tried to do net neutrality, but ran into some kind of wall before the policy went very far.
- microcolonel 12y agoIf that's possible, it's equally possible that it's because they accepted campaign contributions from Comcast, one of the larger violators of net neutrality. Furthermore, is it not possible that they made it all up so that Comcast would give them a large contribution? While I don't like to go for conspiracy theories, I would like to point out that these are about as likely as the Obama administration actually intending to improve network neutrality.