Posted on 04/23/2015 7:42:19 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
The Federal Communications Commission recently adopted a plan to regulate the Internet like the phone companies of the 1930s. The decision is wrong for countless reasons, including an imminent reduction in investment and innovation.
To undo these burdensome regulations, Congress should work together in the coming months to pass a law that both ensures the desired consumer protections everyone favors but forgoes the antiquated 1930s-style public-utility regulations.
Let's take a step back.
The FCC initially proposed last year to adopt a simpler set of rules guaranteeing that the Internet remains open and available to all users. This type of regulation is sometimes called "net neutrality," and it has broad support. The goal of net neutrality regulation is straightforward: to ensure that no lawful content on the Internet is blocked or slowed and to prevent Internet service providers from charging Internet content providers more for faster delivery of their content.
But the discussion shifted over time, especially once President Obama called for the same consumer protections. Except the President took it one giant step further -- advocating that Internet services and providers should be subjected to regulations that applied to telephone services more than 80 years ago. The reasoning was that the basic principles of net neutrality could somehow only be achieved through these dated, harsh and extremely complex rules.
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Our communists empire is growing. Almost to the point that America is now a communist Nation and with a dictator King Obama. He will get another term regardless of the now useless Constitution. America, once a true Republic and governed by laws instituted by the Constitution. is finished. Question of time and once the empire is controlled it will never be reversed. Think not? Better look at its people and what they have become.
It’s a ruse to get an excise tax tacked onto your internet bill, same way it is tacked onto your phone bill. With more and more people cutting the cord to the home phone, Uncle Sugar needs to make up that money.
I think the Mob has a similar scheme.
Aaagh this reads like something cut and pasted from the CTIA. The reason the FCC is considering reclassifying ISPs as common carriers because the D.C. circuit struck down those “light touch” net neutrality rules because the FCC doesn’t treat ISPs like common carriers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/14/d-c-circuit-court-strikes-down-net-neutrality-rules/
Really, congress should have changed the communication act to transcend the common carrier rubric and permit net neutrality rules without reclassification.
That is what King Obana's Administration has become. Look at all the criminal acts even the Justice Department has done. Every department or bureau is controlled and their only purpose is to control and tax we the people.
So keep building those pirate radio stations to keep them all busy.
Are you sure?
“Federal Communications Commission”
Dang it...
Once again, this shows that I have an older version of the Constitution. Mine doesn’t list raisin control as one of the specific authorities given to the federal government.
Can someone point me to where I can download a latest version of the Constitution?
One that specifically authorizes (enumerates) federal government authority over such things as:
- the amount of water in my toilet bowl
- the type of light bulbs I use
- how fast ketchup should flow out of the bottle
- and also raisin control.
must be in the penumbra
They will add a surcharge to every bill to give free high-speed internet to the “poor” Obama voters.
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