Posted on 02/27/2015 11:59:42 AM PST by Kaslin
You said ... I really don’t see this as a threat to free speech. There’s conservative shows on TV, radio and they’re not shut down because of the FCC. I don’t see how they could differentiate things on the Internet.
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Quite true. There have been very recent US Supreme Court cases reaffirming Freedom of Speech ... even VERY OFFENSIVE SPEECH! So, no, that’s not going to be a problem!
Yet. But the bottom line is they hold that Sword of Damocles over our heads.
More likely they will require the merger of Free Republic and Democratic Underground.
Within weeks, lots of bloggers will find themselves suddenly “turned off” with no explanation given.
That’s baloney ... LOL ...
streaming video is both time sensitive and massive in data stream size... it flying the marching band first class on demand bump everyone else off the plane...so what happens.. everyone else paying the same price ticket get bumped...
funny remember when dsl and cable was first coming out.. people understood the internet was shared media... people were aware of people that would hog all the bandwidth.. so they had pay for being a hog... net-flicks is a major bandwidth hog... any streaming video is...... now the hogs don't don have to pay any more then you and for being a hog..... in an all you can eat model... The hogs are going to clean out the all you can eat buffet and you're going to be left with the scraps...... nice going you just screwed yourself to the ground idiots
Is radio regulated as a utility?
It’s worse than a utility ... :-) ...
This is Operation Choke Point applied to the First Amendment.
Internet is a medium by which every one may publish to every one. Regulating that medium is no different than regulating which newspapers receive paper and ink, when, and how much.
The FCC now demands that ISPs operate “in the public interest”. They will be able to claim that the “critical information needs” of this or that “community” is not being served “properly”, that this or that website is “biased”, that an ISP must provide “balance” in the websites made available over their network. etc.
If you doubt this you need only look at the Critical Information Needs study that the FCC conducted in 2014. They wanted to embed government “researchers” in media organizations to question television and radio broadcasters about “the process by which stories are selected” and how often stations cover “critical information needs” of various “communities” along with “perceived station bias” and “perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”
The FCC has demonstrated their mindset and intention and it is tyrannical. Internet is “the tyrant’s foe, and the people’s friend”
“How much longer before the Obama regime removes FR and other conservative websites?”
They won’t ban them but they will figure out some scheme to take away their bullets.
Obama probably couldn’t. He’s still a relative piker.
But if America continues to rot, whatever follows Obama will run wild.
Best case. ISPs will be required to subsidize wildly lefty “news sources.”
Congress should immediately zero out funding for the FCC. And every other unaccountable bureaucracy under the Administration’s control.
Probably.
All paper and ink suppliers should be required to supply discounted or free goods to newspapers for underserved communities.
We’ll see, won’t we?
You think soros funded this and the FCC, Obama and the media have kept all this a secret and they are not going to ruin the Internet and take over then you must be living in fairytale land. This is marxism and tyranny to ruin the internet.
tv and radio don't have any where near the information the Internet has. for you to show tv and radio as somehow working to give us info is ridiculous. I never get any info that i could use from tv nor radio nor cable , ever only the internet. ridiculous beyond belief is your defense and rationalization of this utter tyranny. tv and radio suck and are mostly socialist propaganda. sure a few tidbits of info here and there from Rush but these radio morons don't care about anything just making millions and will kowtow to the FCC and government and give us tidbits of lip service to keep us hooked
With the Internet as it was anyone, the little guy, busineses, could finally get real information cheaply and that's freedom and independence. and obama wanted to ruin that and they have. before the Internet anyone would have to pay an "expert" large sums of money to get anything done or any real knowledge .now all the knowledge is at our fingertips and searches really work so all that info is molded to find solutions very quickly . this was never possible in history. of course Obama and the democrats want to ruin the Internet and this is why they are passing these fcc laws/rules
Check back with me a few weeks after it goes into effect and report the bloggers who have been shut off by the FCC ... :-) ...
Yes.
They do — at the very best you are livestock to be farmed (for your money and your vote), but dare to rock the boat by so much as questioning the status quo and you're an enemy of the state that's got to go!
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