Posted on 11/07/2023 8:00:52 AM PST by george76
Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr is calling the Biden administration's "digital equity" plan for all internet services and infrastructure an "unlawful power grab."
Biden’s plan hands the Administrative State effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the country. Never before, in the roughly 40-year history of the public Internet, has the FCC (or any federal agency for that matter) claimed this degree of control over it. Indeed, Biden’s plan calls for the FCC to apply a far-reaching set of government controls that the agency has not applied to any technology in the modern era, including Title II common carriers," Carr said ..
Carr previewed an important FCC vote next week on Nov. 15 about whether to implement the plan.
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Congress never contemplated the sweeping regulatory regime that Biden asked the FCC to adopt—let alone authorized the agency to implement it," he said.
Carr explained that the Biden administration's "broadband policies are failing" and the "costs of building Internet infrastructure in this country have skyrocketed" due to his economic policies. While the FCC has been looking to expand "new, 5G services," it has "needlessly blocked and delayed new broadband infrastructure builds" because of "regulatory red tape."
The commissioner said Joe Biden has chosen to blame "the private sector and free market capitalism itself for the Administration’s own policy shortfalls" and is pushing the FCC to adopt "a one-page section of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Infrastructure Act)," which has "new rules of breathtaking scope, all in the name of 'digital equity.'"
"For the first time ever, those rules would give the federal government a roving mandate to micromanage nearly every aspect of how the Internet functions—from how [internet service providers] allocate capital and where they build, to the services that consumers can purchase; from the profits that ISPs can realize and how they market and advertise services, to the discounts and promotions that consumers can receive. Talk about central planning," Carr warned.
If passed, the FCC would be empowered, for the first time, to regulate every ISP’s service termination terms, use of customer credit, account history, credit checks, and account termination, among many other items.
"There is no path to complying with this standardless regime. It reads like a planning document drawn up in the faculty lounge of a university’s Soviet Studies Department," Carr said.
He added, "The Biden Administration’s plan empowers the FCC to regulate every aspect of the Internet sector for the first time ever. The plan is motivated by an ideology of government control that is not compatible with the fundamental precepts of free market capitalism."
Former FCC policy adviser Evan Swarztrauber said of Biden's plan, "To call it 'extreme' or 'radical' doesn't do this proposal justice,"
"Biden is turning 'digital discrimination' into a pretext for regulating everything. For equity," Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, said of the Biden plan for the FCC.
I’m certain Jo Bribden could sit down and give a lengthy talk on why he came up with this plan and how it will benefit the world. He is very articulate and smart.
The USA is being governed by something akin to the South African National Congress.
Primitive cannibal savages who can barely read and write are determining the direction of the the country. Look for necklacing parades to soon commence.
They are being used by those who want to do the "Great Reset". Once that is complete, they will go up against the wall, once their services are no longer needed.
Biden has plagiarized all his political life. I’m guessing little of this plan was his idea.
It’s how he rolls.
Wow! Is congress going to stop this?
Ugh!
The bomb that keeps exploding.
Liberal humanists cannot tolerate the free exchange of ideas for too long. Reason, nature and common sense, that is, reality, begin to re-assert themselves.
” drawn up in the faculty lounge of a university’s Soviet Studies Department,”
That’s everything that comes from the bureaucrats and democrat party. These elite commie idiots couldn’t make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich by themselves. YET, they think they can command and control trillions of individual decisions
I wonder if he was appointed during the Trump years.
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“Nominated by both President Trump and President Biden, Carr has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate three times.”
https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/brendan-carr
Well he is a government worker. I imagine there would be a lot of work involved in implementing this and that’s probably what got his panties in a twist.
Interesting — thanks
“Wow, Obama is the gift that keeps on giving”.
Yep, he’s right in the middle of, or behind, everything being done to ruin America. He’s right at the top tier of most evil bastards.
Yep, Michelle would replace Winnie.
Obama is still driving. Biden is just the bobblehead on the dash.
Anything with the word equity in it is Marxism
Lol! You might be right!
Biden is illegitimate in many ways!
Add that to the list.
Also add, “crooked, feisty, irrelevant, horrible, incompetent, incontinent, pedophile,
with diminished capacity in all requirements of his office!”
Biden does not have it. Never had it and never will GET IT.
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