All Agencies belong to Obama ,don’t you know
Ted Cruz proved right again.
Dictatorship with impunity and ZERO CONGRESSIONAL ACTION to stop it. The Congress had all it needed many years back to impeach him and rid our nation of this horror story.
Emphasis on censorship and power.
Just wait until you find out what’s in that 300 + page pile of toilet paper ,hmm will half the internet go dark overnight
It is about crushing independent thought and liberty as well.
Followed by imprisonment, torture and execution.
Because: Totalitarianism (ie - Democrats)
Impeach this turd PLEASE!
Defund the FCC.
I assume that Boehner and McConnell own some stock in the companies that will be raking in the money.
President Buckwheat has taken a position to destroy our freedom of speech. Let’s see how many divisions he can raise to carry out his neo-Nazi crap.
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This is a wild overreach of the FCC’s original mandate. The FCC was originally created to manage a scarce resource: The radio frequency spectrum. They allocated chunks of spectrum for different uses (TV, radio, maritime, law enforcement, air-traffic control, etc). And since it’s a limited resource they could regulate over-the-air TV stations since they are only stewards of a scarce resource (spectrum). That is how the ‘family hour’ was mandated back in the 1970s, where all TV programming had to be kid-safe until at least 9 p.m. local time.
However, the Internet’s bandwidth is potentially infinite. Except for WiFi and cell phones (which use the radio spectrum) there is absolutely NO justification for the FCC’s power grab of wired communication.
The FCC is using the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (amendment to 47 U.S.C. sec 151) is to “make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...”
See how they slipped in the word ‘wire’ like that? It was a one-word amendment. You can thank Bill Clinton and the 1996 Democratic Congress for that one.
Few people are aware of the fact that the Internet that we know and love today almost didn’t happen. It was nearly killed in its infancy due to proposed public-utility regulations like Obama’s new FCC diktat.
You see, way back in the 1980s, when the Internet was called ARPANET and run by the DOD as a loose inter-university research network, the ITU (part of the UN), ATT, and the other national telephone monopolies were poised to steamroll TCP/IP (which uses packet-switched networking) and replace it with highly regulated X.25/OSI/TP4 over ISDN (which uses telephone-style circuit-switched networking). At one point the US DOD even mandated switching ARPANET to OSI, which would have killed the free-wheeling Internet that we know today. Fortunately it collapsed under its own regulatory weight as the more nimble Berkeley grad-school programmers ran around it with 4.xBSD. But it was a close thing.
The beauty of TCP/IP is that it can run over anything and still interoperate. If the regulatory agencies start to strangle the public Internet, expect to see VPNs popping up everywhere that connect to to ‘Outernet’ routers in countries like the Bahamas or other countries with loose regulatory regimes.
Internet, Outernet.
A split is coming. One network will be highly regulated with content controls, speech controls, etc. The other network will be free-wheeling and totally unregulated (with offshore DNS root nameservers).
And of course anyone caught with an Outernet link will be in violation of some law or regulation that will be enforced by the Powers That Be.
Or maybe I’m just a pessimist.
Our Glorious Leader is consolidating his control.
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Let me Guess , Obama didn’t become President to help the Untied States did he
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And to make matters worse, while some of the services provided by the FCC are reasonably needed imo, it remains that the states have never delegated the to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate communications. So not only is Congress delegating powers to non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the FCC, Congress is delegating powers that it doesn’t have in the first place.
As a side note, consider that that the bill that established the FCC was signed into law by Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR.
Also, it has already been mentioned on this message board that the RINO-controlled House can stop Obama from interfering with FCC by withholding funding for the FCC under Clause 1 of Section 7 of Article I, the “purse strings” clause. But regardless that House RINOs have read the Constitution out loud at the beginnings of the 2011, 2013 and 2015 legislative sessions, freepers have already lamented that the RINO-controlled House is essentially a lost cause with respect to doing its duty to protect and defend the Constitution.
Are we having fun yet? 8^P
Tyranny, pure and simple.
How long before he declares martial law?