As he is Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, I’d like to know WHAT is it his JOB to be bothering with things like government censorship? Or ‘regulating’ the internet, or the fairness doctrine???
Seems to me his job is ENERGY and COMMERCE, is it not???
"CHANGE"
Is what he is for as a good little follower, no matter what the change is.
He's a Democrat!
See following parts of the US Constitution:
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 (interstate commerce clause)
Article 1, section 8, clause 18 (necessary and proper clause)
Together, these constitute primary standing for nine-tenths of current federal activity and spending. If you have ever seen the government do something and then wonder, “is that even constitutional?”, chances are, the sole bases for the questionable government powers are the above Clauses 3 and 18.
I’m not saying I agree with it, just stating the way it is. IMO, these should both be scratched from the US Constitution, and all rulings and laws therein predicated should be culled from the books. Creative destruction and grievous hilarity would ensue.
Anyway. The history of the link between the FCC and the commerce clause goes back to 1887, under the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), and later (1930’s) the creation of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) - BOTH under the purview of the US department of commerce, and justified by the above two clauses.
Nosferatu’s bolshevization of the internet is the natural progression of the last 120 years of constitutional thought.
True. It's to ELIMINATE energy and commerce in order to speed their transition to communism. That leaves plenty of time to meddle in other parts of the expansive federal nanny.
Commerce = internet sales taxes.
The interstate commerce clause.