Posted on 05/08/2010 10:34:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
Julius Caesar of the Internet The FCC puts another industry under political control.
A federal appeals court ruled last month that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to regulate the Internet. No worries, mate. This week the Obama Administration chose to "reclassify" the Internet so it can regulate the Web anyway. This crowd is nothing if not legally creative.
For the past decade, broadband has been classified as an "information service" and thus more lightly regulated than traditional telephone services. This has led to an explosion of new investment and Web innovation, but it hasn't sat well with Democrats who want more control over the telecom business, as well as with some Web companies (Google) that want more leverage over Internet service providers like Time Warner or Verizon.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski did their dirty work this week by announcing that he plans to reclassify broadband lines so his agency can regulate them under rules that were written for Ma Bell in the 1930s. This means subjecting the Internet to new political supervision—from the federal government and 50 state public utility commissions. The goal is to put one more industry under Washington's political thumb.
Even Bill Clinton's FCC, under Chairman Bill Kennard, had refused to go this far. "Classifying Internet access as telecommunication services could have significant consequences for the global development of the Internet," said Mr. Kennard in a 1998 speech. "We recognized the unique qualities of the Internet, and do not presume that legacy regulatory frameworks are appropriately applied to it."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
When we said “Free Speech”, we didn’t mean for you!
For an administration that isn't qualified to run a copy machine, they do seem to be trying to see how far they can go before armed confrontation breaks out.
Time to slap them down hard before it becomes bloody.
No surprise here.
The Marxist can stay in power only by controlling every aspect
of one’s life.
Control of information and thought is vital to their survival.
The question is, how much can they control it on an international level?
Will we see blocking of all the talkers like Savage and Rush?
This brings my memory of the old Soviet radio jamers.
Google thinks it can control Obama like German industrialists thought they could control Hitler.
Nanny state
This industry is a bit different from all the others.
There's a reason Hillary turned towards government rather than corporations in her pursuit of absolute power - she looked at the historical bottom line, which has always been "you and what army?"
Google-type liberal sellouts can always be bought off for cash and elitism. "Peace, love, diversity, progressive..." - yeah, yeah, here's a billion and a 757, go play with yourself.
And they do - gladly.
Google probably feels that it’s got nothing to lose by cheering Obama on. If the left continues to solidify its power, Google will be their favorite lap dog. If we end up with a free country again in four years, what how can that harm Google ?
Enjoy internet 2.0. It’ll cost $500/month and all you’ll have is espn, amazon and ebay. Google will fall quickly on their own sword when they find that for their search-engine and ad-services to work, there has to be actual sites to search and pages to put ads on.
May be time to seek out the next alternative. This is too important to wait and see what happens. Communication is the life line by which we can voice our opinions, plan protests and seek redress for grievances.
Is the answer something like IM? I don’t know; but we are going to need something if theis goes inchallenged.
May be time to seek out the next alternative. This is too important to wait and see what happens. Communication is the life line by which we can voice our opinions, plan protests and seek redress for grievances.
Is the answer something like IM? I don’t know; but we are going to need something if theis goes unchallenged.
The FCC is and always was unconstitutional and must be abolished.
Now we know why Jim Clyburn’s daughter Mignon got her job with the FCC.
Part of the larger plan? Deregulate. Let private industry jump in with cash and service innovation and extend the industry capabilities. Then...REregulate to get the advantage of the investment of money and effort, but still get control.
It’s ALWAYS been about control. It will ALWAYS be about control.
It’s time to take back the country.
For this communist/Marxist regime to succeed, ALL information must be approved and controlled.
Don’t worry, it’s baby steps right now but in the future you will be pleased with the new system that parallels the world that Orwell describes. We will all become Proles and simply and blindly believe everything the government says is truth.
(They take turns doing "round-the-clock" surveillance of me, throwing out "unsuitable commentary"—which means, "Conservative commentary").
My user-name Ministry of Truth, you'd recognize from the book 1984
The warning appears here:
http://wolfeboro.forumcab.com/viewtopic.php?p=8998#8998
I don't want the above forum's administrator to close still another forum—which he's done in the past—but my hope is that you can help me "Freep" this forum into allowing free speech.
(Please register and comment to allow the free speech—which is now threatened nationally, according to the above WSJ article).
(Pings to post 17).
Translation: "We already have the schools and universities under control, but not the Internet. Just listen to your commie teachers and you'll be fine."
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