i believe you're right...
Posted on 10/12/2010 3:04:44 PM PDT by La Lydia
Two thoughts about your comments. This kind of regulatory authority isn’t granted to Congress in the Constitution. What we have currently was invented as a response to technology. Surely the reason the FCC should butt out would fall under both the First and 10th amendments. Parts of the Internet might pertain to interstate commerce, but a great deal of it deals with private exchanges of information between private citizens, and the kind of communication that, in earlier times, fell under the First Amendment freedom of the press provision written to guarantee that citizens can criticize their government. Congress cannot legislate away free speech and a free press, nor can they delegate such authority (that they don’t have). On the other hand, there might be small satisfaction to be had were the FCC to close down the Democratic Underground; Free Republic, not so much.
i believe you're right...
What difference will in make? after the oeth keapers child confiscation incident obviously anyone who has uttered an honest opinion on the net is already under some sort of scrutiny ...
Words and ideas have more power than weapons...
The mood may be benign on the surface but it simmers with rage the likes these turds have never seen. This FCC garbage will only crack the veneer open and this population will explode like Mt. Vesuvius. >:o/
Uh-oh...
PING!
the stalinists are on the march..
I think a few million Americans could EASILY persuade 6 people of their desire NOT to become intimately acquainted with tar and feathers,...short ropes, tall trees....etc.
Huh?
They’ll wait that long?
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