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Comrades for Net Neutrality
National Reivew Online ^ | Feb 26, 2015 | John Fund

Posted on 02/28/2015 6:46:47 AM PST by GreyFriar

The powers behind the FCC’s muscling of the Internet Today’s vote by a bitterly divided Federal Communications Commission that the Internet should be regulated as a public utility is the culmination of a decade-long battle by the Left. Using money from George Soros and liberal foundations that totaled at least $196 million, radical activists finally succeeded in ramming through “net neutrality,” or the idea that all data should be transmitted equally over the Internet. The final push involved unprecedented political pressure exerted by the Obama White House on FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, head of an ostensibly independent regulatory body.

“Net neutrality’s goal is to empower the federal government to ration and apportion Internet bandwidth as it sees fit, and to thereby control the Internet’s content,”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414483/comrades-net-neutrality-john-fund

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fcc; georgesoros; internetneutrality; socialism; stasi; tomwheeler
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To: P-Marlowe

“a 15 year Freeper who insisted that Net Neutrality was a good idea because it meant his ISP would be required to give him better Netflix speeds “

Doesn’t surprise me. I found Freepers who actually support fag marriage.


41 posted on 02/28/2015 11:30:53 AM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: GreyFriar

42 posted on 02/28/2015 11:42:02 AM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: houeto

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261902/posts


43 posted on 02/28/2015 12:04:21 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Yep. biases can distort the truth. Freepers are not immune to this. One has to check out everything themselves.


44 posted on 02/28/2015 12:08:01 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Enlightened1

Apparently that doesn’t matter any more.


45 posted on 02/28/2015 12:08:13 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Mark17

Can this be reversed with a new president, Say a Ted Cruz type of president?


I’d love to see Allen West and/or Ted Cruz but I don’t see that happening. Scott Walker isn’t my first choice but I’d support him. You saw how he won every battle against the Wisconsin collectivists.

Before he can take office he needs a tour of the border from Ted Cruz.


46 posted on 02/28/2015 12:10:59 PM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Libloather
"So, the same administration that can't even build a website, just took over the Internet?" - Brad Thor

Brilliant observation.

47 posted on 02/28/2015 12:59:29 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Yes, but can this stupid FCC decision be reversed in the future, with a different president? I would assume it could be. I heard someone say it was a solution in search of a problem. I think we are in for a rough ride until 2016. I guess we have survived bad presidents before, but the Obungler has got to be the worst.


48 posted on 02/28/2015 1:30:59 PM PST by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered, all it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage)
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49 posted on 02/28/2015 5:54:08 PM PST by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: GreyFriar

A classic example of the government using its heavy hand to fix something that was not broken.


50 posted on 02/28/2015 8:26:03 PM PST by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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To: GreyFriar

Jeepers ... thanks for the ping!


51 posted on 02/28/2015 8:45:47 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: GOPJ

Speaking of communists, there’s an international aspect to this that isn’t being talked about much. Namely that reclassifying the internet as a utility makes certain parts of international law incoherent where it applies to the internet. The effect is that it’s going to be easier for countries to take control of certain parts of the infrastructure that are currently controlled by the U.S. — China and Russia being the first that come to mind. I can’t remember the technicalities offhand but somehow we currently control the establishment of domain names and somehow we could lose that, which would make it easier for bad governments to wall off parts of the internet from their people. Essentially we are ceding some of our control to other international “stakeholders”.


52 posted on 02/28/2015 8:57:35 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: P-Marlowe
For those of you Freepers who think this is a good idea, I just noticed that a 15 year Freeper who insisted that Net Neutrality was a good idea because it meant his ISP would be required to give him better Netflix speeds was zotted yesterday into outer darkness.

The FCC will be filing charges against Jim for not providing equal access in 3... 2... 1...

53 posted on 02/28/2015 8:59:51 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Yardstick
You could be right.

I wish I had asked a few questions rather than dismissing him and what he had to say as Marxist claptrap... I got the feeling ‘net neutrality’ would help Communists. Not much more than that...

54 posted on 03/01/2015 3:03:58 AM PST by GOPJ (Comrade Thug - pleae don't hurt me for disagreeing... I lived in a free country once..)
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To: Yardstick
The effect is that it’s going to be easier for countries to take control of certain parts of the infrastructure that are currently controlled by the U.S. — China and Russia being the first that come to mind.

Could that control make it easier for them to undermine the internet within the United States?

55 posted on 03/01/2015 7:29:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Comrade Thug - pleae don't hurt me for disagreeing... I lived in a free country once..)
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To: GOPJ

I’m not an expert but I don’t think so.

Here’s the article I saw that mentioned the international aspect:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/arnold-ahlert/government-takeover-of-the-internet-begins/

The interesting part is about halfway down.


56 posted on 03/01/2015 7:42:12 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: upchuck
A classic example of the government using its heavy hand to fix something that was not broken.

It's not about "fixing" anything. It's all about grabbing power and control over people they disagree with.

Oh, and then there is the money grab to go along with it. I'm sure the IRS will be involved somehow.

F U B O!

57 posted on 03/01/2015 8:21:59 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Yardstick
Democrats and their leftist media allies might say, the Internet has been a triumph of innovation and expansion for decades without the kind of limitations the FCC is now imposing. And that, in and of itself, is the genuine reality that grates against progressive instincts: there must be no such brilliance and innovation that remains beyond the yoke of government, lest the “greater good,” as it is defined by those very same statists, be so transparently threatened.

Nice link .... reminds me of why I can't stand 'progressives' ...

58 posted on 03/01/2015 1:07:20 PM PST by GOPJ (Comrade Thug - pleae don't hurt me for disagreeing... I lived in a free country once..)
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To: P-Marlowe

“zotted into our outer darkness”

what does that mean?


59 posted on 03/01/2015 7:13:51 PM PST by willywill
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To: willywill

http://www.freerepublic.com/~sengirv/


60 posted on 03/01/2015 8:03:08 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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