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Posted on 03/01/2015 8:11:25 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized the Federal Communications Commission's rules on net neutrality as an overreach of unchecked bureaucratic power on Thursday.
“Today, the FCC decided to take over the Internet,” Cruz said. “You should feel real excited because at Barack Obama's instructions, 5 unelected bureaucrats have now declared the Internet is a public utility.”
The FCC voted yesterday to adopt the “Open Internet Order,” designed to ensure equal treatment of legal content on the Internet. The rules were neither publicly released, nor openly debated before adopted by the Commission.
“Net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet,” Cruz said, sparking boos from the crowd. “The FCC's new rules for the Internet are 332 pages that you and I are not allowed to read – I think their strategy is that you have to pass it to find out what's in it.”
The new regulations are a violation of First Amendment rights, the 2016 hopeful explained at an event sponsored by Breitbart News at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“The Internet has been a haven for free speech,” he said. “Today with the Internet, you can start a blog right now that a million people read... Dan Rather was a master of the universe until some bloggers in pajamas said wait a second, what this guy's saying ain't true! Talk about power for the citizen.”
Cruz remarked that true freedom on the Internet isn't government intervention, but leaving citizens to use the web without regulations controlling content.
“What has made it work is we have kept politicians and government the heck away from it. Here's what we need to do with the Internet: don't tax it, don't regulate it, don't do nothin' – leave it to the people!”
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CRUZ or LOSE!Time to change my Tagline
Defund these assholes. Including the IRS, EPA, FEC, DHS, etc,etc,etc.
damn straight!
I second the motion.
So Don't Let THIS Happen to F.R.
Actually three. Vote was along party lines.
These are the consequences of a faceless bureaucracy. The bureaucracy runs the country through regulations with the force of law.
No congressional action needed.
Ted THIS is a subject you can run very well on.
I am completely with you on this.
America needs to leave the internet free and open.
It seems like i have heard something about “the people” before. Now where was that?
And by People, he means historically greedy ISP’s with their fat donation dollars.
The people have spoken Ted. We support neutrally rules, not pay to win schemes like you congress turds. The FCC has been hands off for over a decade and look where it’s actually going. It’s the worst ranked industry in America. The people are pissed.... 85% of the public agrees.
This is a massive losing issue the republicans are spilling the spaghetti over. Acting like a demagogue before the rules are even out make you look like a douche and a hack, especially with those dirty ISP dollars stinking up your ethical stance on this issue. You’re making conservatives look like pro business corruption and anti consumer.
Every bill that’s come before congress related to the Internet has been pro corruption anti consumer. Remember SOPA. We can’t trust congress because they only speak for who pays them. So screw you aged. If you and your cashcuck greedlords did your job we wouldn’t be at this point, would we?
Yeah, I remember those public hearings, and reading all those neutrally regulations, and everybody supported them! Oh wait. That didn't actually happen. I must have been staggeringly, stupidly, blind drunk.
Know what I did next? I slept it off.
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