Posted on 09/27/2011 2:20:13 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Today, the Obama administration officially published the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) so-called net neutrality rules in the Federal Register. These rules would undo a decade of free-market, hands-off Internet policy that has made the Internet the greatest engine of economic growth, creativity, and innovation the world has ever seen. They would set us down a path to reducing the Internet into a government-regulated, government-controlled public utility. The effective date is November 20, 2011. The House has already voted to overturn the rules. The Senate now has two months to do the same – and they must.
A recent Tarrance Group poll found that 74 percent of Americans believe the regulatory burden is too high in this country. Moreover, 65 percent of voters – and 67 percent of Democrats – oppose agencies regulating without the approval of Congress. And that is precisely what’s going on.
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Free from regulation, the Internet has been a bright spot in our weak economy, with tech sector unemployment at just 3.3 percent. The net neutrality order will start us down the path to crippling it with regulations. A study from NYU found the rule will destroy between 100,000 and 200,000 jobs.
And the end goal is even more extreme. Robert McChesney, founder of Free Press, a group with deep ties to the Obama administration, the FCC, and the FTC has let slip where the plan leads:
"At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
And just exactly WHY would the Senate do that? The Feds have been working toward this for 15 years .
Thanks for pointing out that the video no longer worked. Breitbart has it. It’s a Blaze/Naked Emperor News video, so it’ll always be easy to find somewhere.
Redstate has a partial transcript:
========================Sites of one point of view agree to provide links to other sites, so that if you’re reading a conservative magazine, they would provide a link to a liberal site and vice versa, just to make it easy for people to get access to competing views. Or maybe a pop-up on your screen that would show an advertisement or maybe even a quick argument for a competing view. [break] The best would be for this to be done voluntarily, but the word “voluntary” is a little complicated, and sometimes people don’t do what’s best for our society unless Congress holds hearings or unless the public demands it. And the idea would be to have a legal mandate as the last resort, and to make sure it’s as neutral as possible if we have to get there, but to have that as, you know, an ultimate weapon designed to encourage people to do better.=========================
It makes me shudder when he says “voluntary is a little complicated”. This is how totalitarians speak.
Mr. Peabody wrote: -———————Didn’t Chelsea Clinton just take a job with IAC?——————
Thank you sir, that’s a good catch!
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-sec-watch-chelsea-clinton-joins-iac-board/
The nepotism of these people is maddening.
Bttt
In their [the FCC's] opinion, they aren't changing it -- they're merely putting the weight of law behind it to make sure it stays the way it is. Only thing, no one gave them the specific authority to do this.
They claim it's necessary to keep large corporations from controlling access to content that they don't like or approve of.
Their argument: Think of the big media companies and who owns what -- now imagine them controlling not just the content on their own outlets but controlling your access to alternate outlets. Put that way, it sounds perfectly reasonable to have some rules in place.
Which is true. The rules themselves aren't unreasonable...but a government entity can't just step up and CLAIM the authority to enforce whatever rules they want to just because most people find them reasonable. There are procedures to follow that could GRANT them that authority but allowing them to just grab it for themselves isn't the way government is supposed to work.
She’s on the board!?
Tell me this is wrong.
She’s on the board at IAC!
Is she out of school yet?
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