Posted on 08/04/2010 11:47:02 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
While attending RightOnLine in Las Vegas last week we had the opportunity to attend several discussions of the ill advised plans that the Obama administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has for regulating and controlling the Internet.
I listened to a panel discussion and a stand alone speech on Net Neutrality and the plans the Obama administration has for the Internet will surely stifle the creativity and new business opportunities that are opening up all in the overused name of “fairness.”
Worse, these regulations are all being pushed through without act of Congress and under the guise of the FCC’s assumed powers to affect the Internet. These powers that the FCC imagines itself to have are not codified anywhere in law, but the FCC is moving ahead despite the gray areas. Like most of what Obama does, nothing as silly as “the law” will stop them from surging forward with yet another power grab.
In fact, the FCC is shoehorning onto the Internet laws that were written in the 1930s, laws meant to affect the monopoly businesses known as Ma Bell and its subsidiaries in the telephone business. And that fact right there is enough to warn us all that the FCCs plans are a disaster waiting to happen. If you think regulations meant to affect 1930s technology are suitable to today’s Internet technology, you have another think coming.
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Regulating communication is not an enumerated power listed in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution! Therefore the mere existence of the FCC is unconstitutional and must be abolished!
Sorry, NOT buying it.
90% of Americans have a choice between (1) a cable provider which is a government-granted monopoly or (2) a telco which is a government-granted monopoly (or worse, only one of the two).
Instead of expanding their bandwidth capacity to meet demand, these government-sanctioned monopolies are just squatting on the infrastructure and raising prices.
No more "private", no more competitive, than your electric company or trash pickup.
They know the party ends in November (or really Jan. 2011) so they will try to impose as much socialism as they can before then.
Are you okay if your internet provider and every other internet provider in your area charges you extra to access sites like say FreeRepublic.com or FoxNews.com or DrudgeReport.com?
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