Posted on 07/05/2011 8:10:36 AM PDT by 92nina
...The proposed Net Neutrality rules look to limit how Internet Service Providers manage data flowing on their networks. Yet, under the FCC’s new interpretation of its statutory authority, if the rules are legitimized they open the door to regulating virtually any aspect of the Internet. What the FCC fails to recognize is that the Internet did not come to be the powerful entity that it is today by acting under burdensome government regulations. The Internet grew in a relatively free marketplace, unfettered by harmful governmental policies.
While the FCC has stated that they have regulatory authority to enact Net Neutrality under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act, this section does not grant them such authority. Section 706 moves to “encourage the deployment on a reasonable and timely basis of advanced telecommunications capability” through “regulatory forbearance” and measures to “remove barriers to infrastructure investment.” Essentially, it calls for an expansion of broadband by deregulating the industry, rather than the FCC’s plan of onerous regulation. Even the Court of Appeals for D.C. ruled in a prior Net Neutrality challenge that Section 706 did not grant the FCC legal authority to regulate the Net.
As Net Neutrality moves toward being codified into law, Digital Liberty will keep you updated as the rules (and the impending lawsuits) unfold.
(Excerpt) Read more at digitalliberty.net ...
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Talk about a lawless bunch.
Can we dare say treasonous?
We can say corrupt for sure!
This is the most corrupt Administration in U.S. history! That bunch of Chicago mobsters have their hands on everything.
The problem with the FCC could be fixed by defunding this dinosaur. The Internet through a private organization ICANN has pretty well regulated itself and the same could be done with the radio frequency spectrum.
“The Internet through a private organization ICANN has pretty well regulated itself and the same could be done with the radio frequency spectrum.”
Major major difference between RF and the Internet. Any joe can buy the equipment and start transmitting on any frequency they want. The same cannot be said of the internet.
I know extreme liberals who are backing this idea - that means it’s gonna be bad for most Americans.
Private? Well, sort of. ICANN is working under a contract with, and under oversight from, the US Department of Commerce to oversee certain Internment management functions. If ICANN displeases the government, then its authority could possibly not be renewed. The Department of Commerce still retains direct approval authority over changes to the DNS root zone.
Even then, ICANN had some problems, especially in maintaining the open and democratic nature it was told to by the US government. I remember they had a problem with Karl Auerbach. At first ICANN allowed popular vote of some at-large board members, and Auerbach was voted in for North America. He immediately wanted to see their financial and other records and publish them in order to retain that transparency ICANN was supposed to have. He eventually had to sue to get them, and ICANN wanted to put a bunch of limitations on this public data (it is a public non-profit). He won. ICANN learned its lesson. After those terms were up, ICANN abolished the publicly elected at-large board positions.
That bunch of Chicago mobsters have their hands on everything.
But, but I thought Pelosi drained that swamp/s
I also want to see some jail time. I want an example for all other greedy, unethical, self serving, pseudo intellectual, elitist, socialist, marxist, communist progressive to think twice about taking over our country. It is way overdue (since the 1920s) that we stomp on the head of the serpent once and for all. They can take it to a third world country where it will be in line with what they are used to.
The folks in government are power freaks who simply cannot resist the temptation to f*ck around with everything under the sun.
Nine times out of ten (and probaby more frequently than that) they simply screw up everything and anything they touch.
THAT, in a nutshell, is the socialism of which Premier Hussein and his supporters and acolytes are so enamored.
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