Posted on 02/27/2015 6:08:33 AM PST by HomerBohn
And why are liberals endorsing this huge threat to online freedom?
If the FCC’s plan to “protect” net neutrality and reign in the power of greedy corporations is so fantastic, then why haven’t its 332 pages been released for public consumption?
In a vote tomorrow, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to reclassify the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.
Despite this mammoth change in the function of the web, no Congressional debate took place, no bills were introduced and no legislation was signed. The vast majority of Americans are unaware that this is even taking place since the news networks are offering scant coverage.
The change is being made under a form of “administrative law” in accordance with the Obama administration’s guidance, which claims it has the backing of millions of Americans.
If that’s the case then why can’t we see this amazing plan for Internet utopia? Why has Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler refused to testify before Congress on the issue?
Why has Wheeler failed to properly address concerns voiced by critics, including FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, one of the few Americans to have seen the 332 page document, that the new rules will hand the feds the power to micromanage, license and censor the Internet and that the plan is a “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist?
Why is Wheeler channeling Nancy Pelosi’s infamous, “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it,” rhetoric in refusing to make the rules public?
Why are the vast majority of liberals and tech enthusiasts, who expended enormous amounts of energy fighting against efforts to chill Internet freedoms via SOPA and PIPA, actually endorsing the implementation of the FCC’s regulatory framework without question?
Do they think that an administration which has proven itself to be the most antagonistic in White House history when it comes to whistleblowing and the free flow of information has suddenly had a change of heart?
Do they trust a President who told the nation, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan,” not to abuse these powers?
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Under Obama, policy action always comes before law and just after executive threats.
Same answer as would be for any leftist policy that you’d object to:
You’re not smart enough to understand how superior it is.
We are watching liberalism in its last stages.
IE, “end times”, since liberalism is simply “you will be as gods” implemented.
I believe we are indeed entering those times spoken of in the Gospel of Our Lord. Those who donot recognize this fact are in for evil times and confusion on a level that they will not understand.
Five unelected people in black robes, three unelected members of the FCC, and countless unelected government drones determining the fate of this republic and its citizens.
Taken down by jackals.
I emailed the FCC asking for a copy of it.
Not holding my breath though.
> And why are liberals endorsing this huge threat to online freedom?
The lefties haven’t figured out they’re being played by the president who has a a team onboard devoted to social media manipulation. They think theses are regular people “just like them” making these comments when the messages are crafted for bandwagon response. You set up a cool profile with someone who follow fashion, celebrities, and bleeding heart causes online. That someone will be trndy and look the part and make a comment like “we need net neutrality to ensure that Internet speeds for all ISPs are equal” or “net neutrality won’t increase your taxes. That’s just racist bigots who don’t like the president saying it will increase taxes. It won’t” (which is a lie of course). And yeah you guess it, they really don’t what the f$&k they’re talking aout but it doesn’t matter because to a liberal if you say it on the Internet and it agrees with your agenda IT’S TRUE. Everyone reading it thats a liberal then joins in and they all have a big clusterf$&k conversation agreeing with the original Obama sponsored poster not realizing theynhave been played.
That’s what we’re up against in that realm...
> I believe we are indeed entering those times spoken of in the Gospel of Our Lord. Those who donot recognize this fact are in for evil times and confusion on a level that they will not understand.
Well God is really doing a great job of sending the great deception upon them because they’ve bought hook, line, and sinker.
We’ll see it over the next year as the internet gets priced out of reach of many of us and content gets “homogenized” to comport better with a great tolerant nation. I don’t expect conservative sites to survive unless we can get up an alternate net of some sort that doesn’t rely on onshore “providers” or landlines of any sort. Think Red China.
Unfortunately the last stage of liberalism is the Communist State and the total bureaucracy.
They are blind and cannot be reasoned with, only when destruction comes upon them will their eyes be opened. It will be too late. Right is wrong and wrong is right.
Net Neutrality means political “neutrality.” we are going to get a Fairness Doctrine. At best that means for FR that we have to admit leftist commenters and leftist posters on an equal footing with conservatives. Democratic Underground will have different rules.
Washington. A more corrupt institution cannot be found anywhere else in this country. Whiny, wimpy people hiding under their desks so afraid of everything. Swapping votes under the guise of compromise, squirreling away money by selling votes to the highest bidder and telling the American people that they can’t this or can’t that is just more beltway BS. Fed up with the whole group of users out there.
The liberal version of stage 4 cancer.
ATT has been doing alot of strange things in rural areas.
I have asked them what they are doing and the response is always “making things better”.
I press on and they will never answer. Lots of laying underground fiber optics and above ground weirdness in the form of very tall metal poles with huge stainless steel boxes attached, it is going at a frenzied rate and has been for the past 6 months.
Cameras being installed all along I 75 and lots of strange law enforcement vehicles everywhere. SUVS and unmarked grey and white Dodge Chargers.
I am very confident they (the conservative sites) will still survived.
If anyone thinks Comcast (NBC parent company...BIG Obama cult), Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile or other providers have any problem with this Orwellian named “net neutrality”… I got this cool bridge in Brooklyn I’ll sell ya cheap. Cause I bet ya a dollar and a doughnut they wrote most of the 322 pages our ruling fascist junta has NOT allowed us to see (they had to pass it before we can know what’s in it). So much for the “most transparent administration in history”. I’m sure all these big providers have purchased their internet exemptions along with their Obamacare exemptions. Just speculatin’.
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