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On March 28, Ed Perlmutter(D) and 182 other Democrats Voted to Seize the Internet. (vanity)
Free Republic quality editoral | March 29, 2012 | By Lazamataz

Posted on 03/29/2012 9:47:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz

For many months, Republicans have fought the Obama-directed attempt by the FCC to expand it's control over the internet. Many pundits argue that the FCC has no compelling interest in the internet, and that the FCC has a long history of chilling debate in the various media venues it has asserted control over.

In November of 2010, the FCC and their accomplices in Congress again tried to let 'the camel's nose in the tent', by allowing the FCC to regulate the internet in the guise of 'Net Neutrality'. This effort was defeated.

Obviously, the Democrats will not be allowed to squelch the alternative media, and to quash dissent, by letting the FCC decide what speech is allowable and what is not. So, on March 28, in a time-honored tradition, legislation was offered that seemingly had a benevolent intent -- to prevent employers from demanding Facebook passwords -- but inside the legislation was a poison. The enforcing agency would be the FCC.

This legislation would then be a win-win for the Democrats. If the legislation was adopted, the control over the internet by the FCC would be further advanced. If the legislation was killed, the Democrats and their complicit counterparts in the media, could cry out that 'Republicans hate privacy' and that they opposed keeping Facebook passwords out of employers hands.

And since the legislation did fail, the second option is the one that has materialized. The left and their accomplices in the leftist press, is in fact obscuring the true objection (the FCC) and claiming Republicans hate privacy.

It is nonsensical, and a bright Republican leadership will propose the exact same legislation, with a much more neutral enforcing agency.


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KEYWORDS: 112th; bhofcc; fcc; powergrab
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To: Lazamataz

Add me bro!


41 posted on 03/30/2012 9:58:07 AM PDT by Eaker (Remember, the enemy tends to wise up at the least convenient moments.)
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To: Lazamataz

Tweeted an ‘at...


42 posted on 03/30/2012 10:06:36 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Lazamataz
seemingly had a benevolent intent -- to prevent employers from demanding Facebook passwords -- but inside the legislation was a poison

Every bill has pork, small print, and extra little perk$ for someone. Yet, nobody ever reads so much as the title.

43 posted on 03/30/2012 10:09:02 AM PDT by bgill
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To: TheOldLady

I hereby give you my personal permission to abuse your ping list anytime you feel it justified.

Kind of like Obama’s Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius.

You have all the power....:>)


44 posted on 03/30/2012 10:39:25 AM PDT by OneVike ((Just a Christian waiting to go home) internet ID:: impeachobamanow)
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To: Lazamataz
You're welcome, my dear.

Give it some time for word to spread.
45 posted on 03/30/2012 10:46:03 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: MestaMachine

Thanks!!!


46 posted on 03/30/2012 11:41:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Shut up and drill.)
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To: Eaker
Add me bro!

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47 posted on 03/30/2012 11:42:46 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Shut up and drill.)
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To: shibumi
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS RESPONDING TO.

A graphic must come next.

48 posted on 03/30/2012 11:44:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Shut up and drill.)
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To: OneVike

Thanks, OV!


49 posted on 03/30/2012 11:53:25 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: TheOldLady; TEXOKIE
Thanks for the ping TOL.
TEXIOKIE: This may be of interest too you.
50 posted on 03/30/2012 12:23:52 PM PDT by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: TheOldLady; Lazamataz
TOL, thanks for the ping!!

Laz, GREAT editorial!!

As hard as you worked on it, you'll need to keep up your strength, so we made you some "Laz Cookies"

51 posted on 03/30/2012 12:36:10 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Lazamataz
These are the hypocritical bastards who scream to high heaven every time a school principal censors the "f-word" in a student newspaper.

They obviously think the Internet contains too much criticism of the government and not enough porn (the only thing they think the First Amendment protects).

52 posted on 03/30/2012 12:39:49 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: moose07

My pleasure, Moose.


53 posted on 03/30/2012 1:12:05 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: MestaMachine; Lazamataz

I did too. My Tweets have been re-tweeted, so it’ll keep gaining traction.


54 posted on 03/30/2012 1:28:26 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: musicman
Hi, MM! You're welcome.

LOL! The Laz cookies! I have a copy in my Photobucket too.
55 posted on 03/30/2012 1:34:03 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: TheOldLady

56 posted on 03/30/2012 1:35:48 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: TheOldLady; Lazamataz
Click

57 posted on 03/30/2012 5:03:18 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
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To: Lazamataz
'Thank you, dear lady, and it would not hurt matters to tumble around with me. :)

(Yes, yes: I will ALWAYS be Laz)

Photobucket

58 posted on 03/30/2012 9:31:38 PM PDT by IYellAtMyTV (Je t'aime, faire du bruit comme le cochon.)
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To: moose07

Thanks for the ping...bump for later!


59 posted on 03/31/2012 8:34:49 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
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To: Lazamataz

I am taking the free Hillsdale course on the constitution. Just started...hope to get some real knowledge and understanding.

These efforts would be an attack on free speech and means that all these dems who voted for this, are willing to deprive us of more freedoms. In particular this would be to their advantage message-wise. I would call them a group adverse to the constitution and liberty.

Czar Sustein feels that the government should allocate the right to speak in order for it to come out equal.

The people better take note.


60 posted on 04/01/2012 9:53:30 AM PDT by Dudoight
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