Posted on 05/16/2014 8:19:47 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler went ahead with his proposal on Thursday to give his agency the power to decide whether the terms and prices of broadband Internet services are "reasonable." That's bad enough as political discretion, but according to dissenting Commissioner Ajit Pai, regulators from every state will also be able to get into the act.
For two decades Congress has wisely refused to give the FCC the same power over the Internet that it holds over the telephone system. And for two decades the Internet has enabled a gusher of creativity that was unimaginable over a century of regulated telephony. Mr. Wheeler's brainstorm to change all this is simply to pretend the Internet is a phone network.
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Whether named Rand Paul or Ted Cruz, an aggressive candidate can pick up this issue and with it a host of typically a-conservative voters in an age group which Democrats have long regarded to be proprietary. He could put this grotesque regulatory overreach in its proper context, along with the overreach of the IRS against The Tea Party, and the bureaucrats against Nevada ranchers, against oyster farmers, against children selling lemonade, against the homeowners with a puddle in their backyard, against the intrusions of the Obamacare regulators into our very body cavities as well as our wallets. The list is endless and growing every day.
If conservatism stands for liberty, an articulate candidate can stand for liberty and make a case against tyranny better than Sam Adams could make in his time and turn a bunch of sunshine computer nerds and the rest of the nation as well into winter soldiers.
Save for later.
Solution? ROPE, and lots of it. May there be many tree’s adorned with hanging ornament’s
Tall Tree / Short Rope
Amen!
Indeed it twas!
After God’s Regulation .....self Regulation ...
Bust the Authoritarians
The Wanted Posters..I can help provide,,
there was talk of an “international” “regulatory” body taking control of the net..yes.
it appears that the US may have been named Head of that body !
ICANN debate: Team Obama must reverse decision on Internet control
From April... 2014
evidently Obama and company are developing an ever greater reactionary sensitivty towards being told what to to...
Regulation means tax.
at its root!!
the wonderful new OBAMANET!!
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