Posted on 02/27/2015 6:41:11 AM PST by NYer
WASHINGTON – For years, top Catholic bishops have argued for stronger federal oversight of the Internet superhighway. The alternative is intolerable, they said; big cable companies will force noncommercial religious speakers to pay more or assign them to slower lanes.
On Thursday, the bishops saw their dream move one step closer to reality after the Federal Communications Commission voted for strict network neutrality or “open Internet” rules.
Bishop John C. Wester, chairman of the communications committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), endorsed the FCC’s approval in a statement. “From the inception of the Internet until the mid-2000s, Internet service providers were not permitted to discriminate or tamper with what was said over those Internet connections. Today, the FCC restores this protection for speakers, protection particularly important to noncommercial religious speakers,” Bishop Wester, the bishop of Salt Lake City, said in a statement.
Top Catholic bishops feared that without strong federal safeguards, religious speakers would lose their voices on the web. Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, a formerchairman of the USCCB communications committee, in 2006 warned that speakers would have to pay and as a result “will be effectively barred from the Internet.”
Despite the bishops’ praise, the National Religious Broadcasters Association blasted the FCC’s ruling. Dr. Jerry A. Johnson, president and CEO of the organization, called the decision a “power grab … Bigger government is not fertile ground for the flourishing of free speech and innovation.”
The FCC vote was split along party lines. The three Democrats on the commission voted for the proposal, while the two Republicans opposed it.
Ping!
The Great Harlot agreeing with the Beast? Not surprising at all.
Get ready for the reaming to begin suckers!
Top Catholic bishops feared that without strong federal safeguards, religious speakers would lose their voices on the web. Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, a formerchairman of the USCCB communications committee, in 2006 warned that speakers would have to pay and as a result “will be effectively barred from the Internet.”
Despite the bishops’ praise, the National Religious Broadcasters Association blasted the FCC’s ruling. Dr. Jerry A. Johnson, president and CEO of the organization, called the decision a “power grab … Bigger government is not fertile ground for the flourishing of free speech and innovation
And the Catholic Church continues to be the religious arm of the Democrat Socialist Party.
How does slightly slower download times “effectively bar people from the internet”? We allow people to spend more for faster cars and this doesn’t “effective bar people” from the highway system.
This is one group I hope gets their ass handed to them.
I guess they think if they kiss up hard enough, the feds will go easy on all the underage porn their people are downloading?
Go dance with the devil! Dress light, cause it will get real hot.
How can they be sure they are for it when we haven’t seen what is in it?
The bishops do not speak for me!
What part do liberal Protestants play in your so called Harlotry and their support of the Beast?
And now the government will decide if they want religious speakers to be heard at all.
I think we all know the answer to that question, given the current government.
Are any Protestant Churches supporting Obama and his godless agenda?
Are any Catholic Bishops not supporting Obama and his godless agenda?
One only need to watch as the Feds attach the “terrorist” label to those “far right zealots” to understand who it is that will be targeted. The move to “bring all faiths together” as happened at the Vatican not too long ago wasn’t a coincidence. They also see the “far right” as opposition. Didn’t the pope just make a comment to the affect that proselytism is nonsense?
There are about 450 active and retired bishops in the US. This article references the opinions of 2 of them. Most have no idea what net neutrality is.
Since WWII, the road the world is on first changed into a slippery slope and now into a double black diamond ski run.
So...this is what the late 1930s felt like?
Or, are we on the base leg and turning final approach for the Book of Revelation/Apocalypse.
Not sure. All I know is, I got a bad feeling about this...let US pray.
“...Great harlot agreeing with the Beast?...”
The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA are also supporting this. Are they part of the Harlot?
This is a terrible idea, whoever is supporting it, by the way.
(also the City of Jerusalem after 70 A.D. is the actual harlot referred to in Scripture, not Rome)
Amen, you got it.
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