May 6, 2010 8:02 AM
FCC power grab threatens Internet freedom
Another Obama power grab - bypassing our constitutional checks and balances (see Democracy Denied).
Keep in mind that - a la 1984 - the Obama Regime titles its programs to convey the opposite of what they are doing.
The FCC grabs power unlawfully to appease a fringe movementToday brought some huge news for anyone who conducts business or pleasure on the Internet: The FCC has announced its plans to deem and pass Net Neutrality. Specifically, The FCC will defy a court order to stop regulating the Internet by nonsensically deeming the Internet not to be an information service, and regulate it under Title II of the Communications Act.
That sounds mild but it has disastrous consequences.
Title II of the Communications Act gives the FCC strong and broad powers. If the FCC is allowed to put the Internet in the US under those powers, then the Obama administration will have total power to tax Internet users, regulate content on Internet servers, and even institute price controls on Internet services. Does this sound like it has anything to do with "restoring" anything? I don't think so.
The fact is, the idea that this "Net Neutrality" plan is anything but a power grab was always a lie being pushed by a couple of sources. The first is Google, which has had ties with the administration from Eric Schmidt himself advising Barack Obama, to Andrew McLaughlin who's been lobbying for Google from his job as Deputy White House CTO. Google stands to benefit when the FCC passes regulations which favor Internet firms like Google over ISPs.
Part of Google's drive has been in funding Free Press, a radical fringe group dedicated to the nationalization of all mass media in America. Their neo-Marxist vision is to have people's state commissars dictating all the news you read in the newspaper, watch on television, and see on the Internet. Obviously, they've been pushing hard for deem-and-pass "reclassification" of the Internet under FCC total control
However they're gradually letting slip how much of a fringe group they really are, despite their "Save the Internet" front group having a long list of names. . . .
Read it all at Red State.
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Comments
I've heard from the other side that if Net Neutrality isn't guaranteed, then ISPs can discriminate between content providers and potentially be used to censor what people are allowed to read. So we're probably going to end up with a restricted internet either way. I can well believe that the nationalization and control of all media is one of Obama's goals.
Posted by: Peggy | May 6, 2010 11:13 AM
I think the main difference is that if what you see of can access is determined by the ISPs, there's always another place to go... Part of this was sparked by Comcast, which blocks certain types of programs which take up a lot of bandwidth and are used for a lot of illegal tv/movie transmissions. My husband chose not to have comcast because he uses one of these programs to get access to certain Japanese television programs that he likes. That's the free market. However, if the government is in charge, you can guarantee a huge mess.
Posted by: Katja | May 6, 2010 10:40 PM
