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Why Biden’s Broadband Plan Is Constitutionally Suspect
The Federalist ^ | May 19, 2021 | Randolph May and Seth Cooper

Posted on 05/19/2021 5:53:12 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/19/2021 5:53:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
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A healthy internet is a threat to Deep State.


2 posted on 05/19/2021 5:53:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Kaslin

Pfffft! They don’t need to worry about no stinkin’ Constitution. They’re Commies!


3 posted on 05/19/2021 5:55:53 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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I wonder if Musk’s starlink will be the gov’t internet?


4 posted on 05/19/2021 5:56:12 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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My thinking exactly, Starlink is a US corporation now. Perhaps Musk should think about incorporating it in Granada or the Cayman islands or other offshore shelter and keep it out of the hands of Biden flunkies.


5 posted on 05/19/2021 5:59:22 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Kaslin

“The Congress shall have power...To establish post-offices and post-roads.”

Article I, Section 8

Broadband is used to access e-mail almost everyday by most broadband users.


6 posted on 05/19/2021 5:59:54 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“the Biden administration is proposing an ambitious $100 billion broadband plan. The plan overreaches, misdirecting subsidies in ways that are wasteful, such as shoveling funds to areas already served instead of those lacking service.”

A poorly run government program. What a surprise...NOT!


7 posted on 05/19/2021 6:00:24 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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As part of its massive $2 billion infrastructure proposal, the Biden administration is proposing an ambitious $100 billion broadband plan.

Editors?

8 posted on 05/19/2021 6:01:48 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Afterguard

Yeah, but the courts will stop it if it’s unconstitutional (falls down laughing).


9 posted on 05/19/2021 6:02:10 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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How does the Florida Department of Transportation get the money to maintain this highway?

From the federal government.

How is that constitutional?

This road is a “post-road” used to transport mail as fully authorized by Article I, Section 8.


10 posted on 05/19/2021 6:03:59 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“Pfffft! They don’t need to worry about no stinkin’ Constitution. They’re Commies!”

Fact.


11 posted on 05/19/2021 6:04:47 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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Jao is not connected


12 posted on 05/19/2021 6:06:02 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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It’s a poorly disguised way of making Whitey pay for “free” internet service for non-Whitey.


13 posted on 05/19/2021 6:25:32 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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What this thing called Amazon?

It sells stuff over the Internet.

Does it do a good business?

Very good indeed.

Is Amazon part of interstate commerce?

Very much so.

That Internet thingy, is that part of interstate commerce?

Very much so, that Internet thingy is the very backbone of modern American interstate commerce.

That Internet thingy, does that come under the Article I, Section 8 power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states...”

You can bet the law that prohibits hotels from refusing service to businessmen who happen to be black that it does.


14 posted on 05/19/2021 6:31:54 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Biden paying off unions and local government instead of investing in satellite broadband systems that avoid wasting tons of money on wiring and bureaucrats.


15 posted on 05/19/2021 6:52:16 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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Hello, they want to control the informational flow and be able to control your speech. It’s that simple! You like your job? You want to eat this week? Look at what China does to control its people!


16 posted on 05/19/2021 6:55:51 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: dynachrome

I’ll let you know how Starlink works. I’m signed up to be a beta tester where I live. Made my deposit, am waiting on equipment.


17 posted on 05/19/2021 7:37:03 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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“I’ll let you know how Starlink works. I’m signed up to be a beta tester where I live. Made my deposit, am waiting on equipment.”

I was looking at that till a Freeper posted about T Mobile Home Internet. It’s $65 a month, no cap, and it’s running 190 down and 25 up. If that’s available to you it might be worth a look.


18 posted on 05/19/2021 8:30:51 AM PDT by suthener
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To: Texas Fossil

I’d try it out some day.


19 posted on 05/19/2021 9:19:55 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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Who doesn’t have internet that doesn’t want it. I live way out in the boonies and tether to a 5 g phone and have faster internet then my hard line in the office. But we know what it is all about. Buying votes and keeping people voting democrat.


20 posted on 05/19/2021 9:23:49 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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