Red Tape Under the Tree: FCC Plans Internet Regulation for Christmas

Right Side News ^ | December 19, 2010 | James Gattuso

[IbJensen]

How long should we wait?

Until it's all over?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So what's to prevent the incoming GOP congress from abolishing the FCC?

[DownInFlames]

Nothing. Congress granted the charter for the FCC and can yank it. The issue is, WILL THEY?

[SengirV]

Well, you could just wait until your very few choices of internet providers(why isn’t THAT being fought by the GOP?), blocks sites like freerepublic because they can. You’ll have little to no options in getting access.

I hope all you folks who are against net neutrality open up your eyes and see how the internet will be destroyed by monetizing every bit of data.

You want to stream netflix movies? You’ll have to buy the highest tier package. You want access to Fox News, FreeRepublic, Drudge, etc...? Sorry, we don’t have those sites, go find another provider.

You people are clueless.

[circlecity]

"So what's to prevent the incoming GOP congress from abolishing the FCC?"

A democrat senate and a presidential veto.

[tiki]

It would help if we knew what they were going to try to force on us, the tyrants should be lined up and shot.

[ElayneJ]

Congress could pull the charter, but would it matter? If the FCC wants to monitor/regulate the Internet they will. obama, this congress, and all their allies have shown us they don’t need to listen to us or honor existing regulations. What happens now?

[Mr. Wright]

STOP FUNDING THE FCC ALONG WITH THE U.N., DOE, AND TELL
HOLDER THE RACIST, THEY WILL WITHHOLD FUNDS FOR JUSTICE UNTIL HE PUBLICLY STATES THAT WHITES WILL ALSO BE PROTECTED AND DEFENDED BY THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FOR VOTING IRREGULARITIES ETC.

[Dallas59]

Equality in internet speeds basically. You can’t have faster internet that anyone else.

[Spitzensparkin1]

Chairman Julius Genachowski Julius Genachowski was nominated by President Barack Obama to a seat on the Federal Communications Commission on March 23, 2009. He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 25, 2009, and sworn in as FCC Commissioner on June 29, 2009.

Commissioner Michael J. Copps Joined the FCC on May 31, 2001 and was sworn in for his second term in December 2005. Copps served until January 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Basic Industries. Copps came to Washington in 1970, joining the staff of Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and serving for over a dozen years as Chief of Staff. He has also held positions at a Fortune 500 company and at a major trade association. Before coming to Washington, Copps was a professor of U.S. History at Loyola University of the South. Copps received a B.A. from Wofford College and earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Commissioner Robert M. McDowell Robert M. McDowell was first appointed to a seat on the Federal Communications Commission by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2006. When he was reappointed to the Commission on June 2, 2009, Commissioner McDowell became the first Republican to be appointed to an independent agency by President Barack Obama. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 2009.

Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Mignon Clyburn was nominated for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission by President Barack Obama on June 25, 2009. She was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on July 24, 2009, and sworn-in as Commissioner on August 3, 2009.

Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker Meredith Attwell Baker was nominated for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission by President Barack Obama on June 25, 2009. She was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on July 24, 2009, and sworn in as Commissioner on July 31, 2009.

Too late, the deck has been stacked by the Dems. 4 to 1!

[Spitzensparkin1]

The fate of our online freedom and 1st Amendment Rights now rest in these hands. The FCC is now officially a JOKE!

DEFUND, DEFUND, and DEFUND!

[BuffaloJack]

Seizing control of a public service like the internet for the purpose of denying free speech to Americans ought to be a capital crime with the punishment prescribed for any capital crime (and I don’t mean incarceration for a long time).

[wewereright]

And where are the republicans on this? MIA - I hate republicans more then democrats!

[IbJensen]

Is it time yet?

[IbJensen]

Noted. All ‘unanimously’ confirmed.

[MHGinTN]

Almost ... for the time being, BLOAT.

[LiteKeeper]

Yet it appears that Genachowski intends to ignore Congress, ignore the law, and ignore the potential damage to the economy and the Internet itself in order to impose regulation.

this is the crux of the argument!!!

[sauropod]

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