Posted on 12/21/2010 10:40:28 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved a plan to regulate the Internet despite warnings that it could strangle industry investment and damage an economy that is still struggling to recover.
The 3-2 vote fell along partisan lines with Democrats capitalizing on their numerical advantage.
The rules would prohibit phone and cable companies from abusing their control over broadband connections to discriminate against rival content or services, such as Internet phone calls or online video, or play favorites with Web traffic.
Lawmakers in both parties have been arguing for months that Congress, not the Obama administration, should take the lead role in deciding whether and how much to police the web. But despite a brief backing-off earlier in the year, the FCC has pushed ahead with its new regulatory plan.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski secured the three votes needed for approval, despite firm opposition from the two Republicans on the five-member commission.
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Nose. Camel. Tent.
Can this be undone?
I’m unclear as to why they can’t extend their control over cable and satillite as well as Internet? It seems they would if they could or are the leaving that to “Big Sis”?
Like Jackson, Barry will tell the Court to enforce their ruling if they can. Unless the Court is willing to direct Federal Marshals to arrest those at the FCC who try and regulate the Internet, the FCC will just go about the business of shutting down whatever it doesn’t like, raising rates, and granting preferences to those who support the regime.
The Republicans are being challenged on every front by Barry and his merry band of czars sticking it to the public in a hundred different places all at the same time. They figure that no matter how many fingers Congress manages to come up with they won’t be able to plug all the holes in the dike. Republicans better man up and take this gang of thugs down or there won’t be a way to recover from them.
Regards
This must be stopped. Brutally,,, controlling the internet is even more critical to these communists than controlling guns.
Given the choice between the internet and guns, they would seize the internet. Guns are meaningless if they control the information we can spread, and our ability to quickly organize.
And how will it do that if the Courts rule against them? The FCC doesn't man the controls at Comcast nor does it print the bills. If the Court rules against these new regulations I don't the FCC will send in storm troopers in SWAT vehicles to take over the independent internet service providers.
TIME FOR PITCHFORKS!! that’s what Sen. Clare said!!
A disgusting socialist would say, “we need to pass the regulation of free speech so you can find out what it used to be like to have free speech”. Another, even more disgusting, socialist would say, “when you control spreading free speech around, everyone benefits”. A real American once said,”The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” I hope the thug in our White House isn’t going to step forward as a tyrant to an even greater extent than already.
Broadband internet rates will either rise or we will be charged per byte for uploads and downloads or something like cell phones with so much per month flat rated and a pay per byte after exceeding some limit.
As with any other war, taking out the enemy’s ability to communicate is critical.
The same way firearms were regulated for the past seventy-five years in spite of the regulations being unconstitutional. They'll threaten their targets with taking them to court and put regulations in place that nominally don't have anything to do with content but that will only be enforced against those who don't "play the game". That's exactly how Fannie and Freddie were used to undermine the entire mortgage industry and unless Congress steps in the same sort of thing will work with service providers.
Rush has said this is being pushed by Soros and Google.
Screw that! Time to feed the pigs.
The same Courts that would have just ruled they have no jurisdiction to issue the regs in the first place? I don't think Comcast would be too worried in that event.
“I hope the thug in our White House isn’t going to step forward as a tyrant to an even greater extent than already.”
So so true. This is my fear. The chances of miscalculation are extremely high here. We are backed into a hard corner.
And yet, the Kenyan and his forces are bolder than ever. They are attacking into areas that have long been understood as forbidden. They fully show the attitide of a clear victor, going in for the final kill.
I do not think they will stop because they think they have won. Soon they will go much too far and provoke a defensive response. This is only a prediction. I will include the obligatory police state language that “i do not advocate this”.
We live in place where you routinely see people afraid to say what they sincerely believe the future holds because the statist forces will swing into action.
But it is clearly time to firmly put our boot on Obama’s neck, and the other on the throat of whoever we elect on his place. Way past time.
That sums it up nicely. The government has declared war on the people, and are now in the process of disrupting the ability for people to communicate with one another. The lack of communication will reduce the liklihood of a coordinated defense against the fascist's next action.
We're past that "awkward time", folks.
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