[Graneros]

I believe the internet as we know it will disappear within 5 years, maybe sooner, when the FCC gets control. The FCC is one of the absolute worst Government agencies in existence.

Freepers howling for Julian Assange's head and the dismantling of Wikileaks had better think again. If the FCC or any other agency brings down Wikileaks for printing the truth they'll have no problem getting rid of Rush, Fox News, or any website they deem subversive and yes that will include Free Republic.

Herr Goebbels' spirit is alive and well in the USA.

[boomop1]

The House should bring this dick head Genachowski in for waterboarding first chance.

[bareford101]

the fcc is another puppet...

[HiTech RedNeck]

None of FR, Fox, Rush have gone and spied out classified or secret diplomatic documents, nor have they ever shown signs of caring to do so. If repercussions cannot be brought upon an out and out spy who uses the internet as his bulletin board, whom can they be brought upon?

[ExTexasRedhead]

Start calling members of the new Congress 24/7 demanding they do something about the current police state!

[Red Dog #1]

Administrative law will be the (well one of many) ruin of us. How did we come to Political appointees making law?

[SERKIT]

If this were the 1800's, this administration would have a "Leaflet Fairness Act" which would have banned all leaflets thus limiting free speech and descent. Isn't is neat that this same crowd, growing up in the 60's-70's, would have been the first ones to support free speech and descent, and now that they are in charge, want it suppressed?

Hillary: We have a right to debate and disagree with ANY administration!

[SouthDixie]

I believe the internet as we know it will disappear within 5 years

We knew this was coming, or at least I did, hellooooo "unfairness" doctrine.

[Kackikat]

Wickileaks is already down, and Assauge has an arrest warrant issued by Interpol.

[The Great RJ]

A federal court already has ruled that the FCC does not have authority to do this. The new Congress should reverse this ASAP and start budget cuts with the FCC.

[MWS]

Does anyone know of any planned protests of this for the day it will be done?

It’d be a shame if they get away with this without a scene of some sort being made.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yes, it seems Assange is becoming more of an ally than an enemy.

After all, the government thinks that you can't have average American citizens seeing their masters' plans before they're implemented.

To paraphrase Nancy Peloozer, let's just pass the thing so that people can see what's in it.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

The FCC is poised to unilaterally claim privately-run networks into
its regulatory and monitoring purview.

Of particular interest will be the enforcement angle of all this.
ISPs will be prohibited from throttling bandwidth hogging applications
and streams, even in times of high demand. Now how will that rule be
enforced? By monitoring, of course. ISPs already must surrender to
governmental demands for wiretaps, Magic Lantern snoop installations,
email and browsing history records, etc. This is just another layer.

Don’t think this will be limited to ISPs. Private networks, VPNs,
VOIP services, mobile-phone data links and home WiFi networks will
soon need monitoring and policing too. After all, terrorists and drug
dealers could be using them! What, you don’t agree? You must be
racist.

[MichiganConservative]

I’m sure they’re doing it for the children. The useful idiot common “liberals” won’t mind if it is for the children.

Just tell “conservatives” that they’re doing it to catch terrorists or “Bad people” and they’ll get behind it.

Sheep.

[bd476]

Graneros wrote: "I believe the internet as we know it will disappear within 5 years, maybe sooner, when the FCC gets control. The FCC is one of the absolute worst Government agencies in existence.

Freepers howling for Julian Assange's head and the dismantling of Wikileaks had better think again. If the FCC or any other agency brings down Wikileaks for printing the truth they'll have no problem getting rid of Rush, Fox News, or any website they deem subversive and yes that will include Free Republic.

Herr Goebbels' spirit is alive and well in the USA."

Supporters of sabotage against the United States are no different than the American Communists who were quietly enacting the Communist Manifesto until Senator Joe McCarthy stood up to stop it.

If Senator Joe McCarthy were alive today, he would be right in including you as an ally of George Soros and his puppet Assange.

[FourPeas]

The FCC was going to take this step even without Assange. He’s just a convenient poster boy for this administration.

The internet is a big, big thing, and techies are alive and well throughout this great country. The government can’t keep kiddie porn, spam or conservative view points off the web (not, by the way, that the first two are something for which I’m advocating). Once the government plugs one hole, another opens up. It’s the nature of technology. The government can’t come up with anything that some ingenious (or “lucky”) geek can’t work his way around. The government may like to think of itself as all powerful, but in the realm of technology they’re wildly outclassed. Geeks the world around are an independent bunch who like a challenge, AND don’t much like being told what they can or can’t read/hear.

As for Rush, I’d guess he already has a contingency plan in place. There are several routes he could go, and I expect that he has more than one back-up in the event that plying his craft in the USA becomes too cumbersome.

[wildbill]

Arbeit macht frei!

Government Slogans and government statements can be duplicitous as the Jews found out when they went docilely into the extermination camps.

Control of the internet is absolutely necessary to stop the worldwide spread of individual thought and exchange of information.

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5

[Publius6961]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the executive department responsible for the administration of the FCC?
How would they respond to a million individual letters from the ultimate authority, the people, us?

Emails can be erased en masse at the speed of light. Ditto with "petitions." Petitions just make the arrogant bastards yuck it up, and consists of a lot less to shred.

I plan to write my letter. Anyone else?