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Obama pressed to use State of the Union for Internet push
The Hill ^ | 1/11/15 | Mario Trujillo

Posted on 01/11/2015 12:06:17 PM PST by Libloather

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” free and open Internet”

that’s what I thought it already was


21 posted on 01/11/2015 12:42:36 PM PST by willywill
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To: Travis McGee; C. Edmund Wright
TM, I caught the italicized paragraph below in a Wall Street Journal article just a couple days ago.

What an astonishing assertion is contained therein:

A Republican House staffer told the Wall Street Journal that nothing is off the table, including preemptive counter-legislation to block reclassification and cut the FCC’s budget, or invoking the Congressional Review Act, which grants Congress the power to overturn major rules created by federal agencies.

The version I saw in the paper WSJ used the words "or invoking the little-used Congressional Review Act..."

I pass this along because I am stunned that such legislation, little-used or not, HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN USED THAT I'VE SEEN.

Do you or any of the other more learned Freepers know what is meant by this? So we can throw out EPA regs as we choose? Can we not throw out Amnesty regs that we know are illegal?

How many other nuclear warheads do we have in our aresenal that the cowards in D.C. pretend were lost in the wash?

22 posted on 01/11/2015 12:50:05 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Libloather

Tyrants. They hate the internet. And Obama is chief among them.


23 posted on 01/11/2015 1:05:31 PM PST by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwel)
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To: cpdiii

Its always about control and using computers and with internet (tower of Babel) communications and global connectivity that will eventually empower the beast system that is coming,

In the book of Daniel, “beasts” = tyrannical government/empires/nations opposed to God. He outlines the four main ones with the fourth being the final one at the end,

The Internet is a powerful tool and needed to be free only long enough to draw the world into it, this is one more step in that direction of requiring a global number to buy and sell and to be monitored for ‘hate speech’ the infrastructure is mostly in place, so now comes the demonic overlay,

Stories like this one, where the government wants to control and censor internet activity makes me think of this verse, and I’ve always been intrigued at why different translations have John as the one standing on ‘the sand of the sea’ while others have the dragon (Satan)

I have to wonder if its because its both, both efforts have benefited up until the very end, when its then completely controlled by the final beast of Revelation,

Computer chips are made from sand,

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.” Revelation 13:1 KJV

“And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.” Revelation 13:1 NASB

(crazy? maybe or maybe not)


24 posted on 01/11/2015 1:16:04 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: Libloather

How is “net neutrality” going to protect us from a Charlie Hebdo-type attack from anti-free-speech Muslims?


25 posted on 01/11/2015 1:16:40 PM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

A vote to override a regulation has to be signed by the President or his veto overridden. Thus it’s probably never been used since those making regulations are doing the President’s bidding.


26 posted on 01/11/2015 1:34:45 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Thanks for the info.

No way they’ll get that kind of vote, as you say.

Unless of course they tie it to legislation enough craven Dems want too.

Astonishing to me that on top of everything else this filthy little scamster will leave his sticky fingerprints on the internet too.


27 posted on 01/11/2015 1:43:18 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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Who realizes that every telephone bill for the last 20 years has had a dollar or two tax taken out of it to
Supposedly pay for this thing that 0bama proposes now?

And of course his proposals, if passed, will just add another tax on top of what is supposed to be paying for it already


28 posted on 01/11/2015 1:46:41 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Libloather

Insanity

He only wants to do that so he can add surcharges to give free high-speed internet to welfare recipients.


29 posted on 01/11/2015 2:05:48 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Travis McGee

Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) said, noting its economic importance. “We cannot afford to have Internet fast lanes or a two-tiered Internet system in this country.”

Does this bimbo really think that Bill Gates, Barak
Obama and the political elite will have the same service
I get?

Don’t be dtupid lady.


30 posted on 01/11/2015 2:11:01 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Travis McGee

31 posted on 01/11/2015 2:27:57 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Libloather

they will push to make the internet a utility, forcing govt control and monitoring.

then come the fines for ‘illegal speech’ ... and loss of internet access for ‘repeated violations’


32 posted on 01/11/2015 3:03:16 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Libloather
I have a couple of related questions:

#1 What is it going to take to wipe the slate clean of ALL these regulations - information flow (Internet), healthcare, environment; and

#2 Can that be accomplished peacefully?

Also a corollary: If #2's answer is "no" then do we have the resolve to do what it takes to restore freedom in America and what's the best path forward? Texas secession?

33 posted on 01/11/2015 3:14:21 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: sten

I’m at my breaking point and not about to allow that. This is my country and my ancestors have been here since Colonial times. I don’t know who these Johnny-come-lately interlopers are, but I believe it’s time to take a real stand, consequences be damned. Cowardice is our biggest enemy...


34 posted on 01/11/2015 3:16:48 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Libloather

Anyone can get an Obama phone if: 1)You are on the dole, 2) you are a Democrat, 3) you are in the business of being a pimp, a whore or a drug dealer or 4) all of the above.


35 posted on 01/11/2015 3:24:45 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: willywill

This will kill Amazon and EBay...and small businesses that is on the net. This will shut down sites like FR and DU...


36 posted on 01/11/2015 3:31:41 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Libloather

Public Knowledge...Ministry of Truth...


37 posted on 01/11/2015 3:40:01 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Lexinom

our biggest enemy ... is a lack of goals and planning


38 posted on 01/11/2015 3:44:02 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: BenLurkin

That pic reminds me....I was on the treadmill at our gym a couple of weeks ago....there are 7 big screen TVs.....EVERYONE of them was on Obama yapping about something...guy next to me was as pissed as I was...


39 posted on 01/11/2015 4:08:07 PM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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To: Travis McGee

Trust us?

Absolutely not.


40 posted on 01/11/2015 4:09:38 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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