Posted on 02/26/2015 4:32:42 PM PST by Starman417
The FCC voted today to regulate the internet . It's absolutely frightening. It will be the end of the internet as we know it. Never mind that Obama will demand that all illegal aliens are guaranteed access to the internet and you'll pay for it. Never mind that for now. It's the real goal that's scary. It's who's behind this that's chilling. As one would expect, the left supports the action and you can just hear the implications in their words:
“We’re on the eve of a historic event at the FCC,” Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) said during a Wednesday morning hearing on the rules. “Tomorrow, the commission is set to put into place what will be the strongest Internet protections consumers have ever had.”Indeed.
The Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, has refused to testify before Congress.
Excuse me? Who the hell is he to refuse to talk to Congress? Who the hell does he think he works for?
From Wikipedia:
In late April 2014, the contours of a document leaked that indicated that Wheeler's FCC would consider promulgating rules allowing Internet service providers (ISPs) to violate net neutrality principles by making it easier for Internet users to access certain content — whose owners paid fees to the ISPs (including cable companies and wireless ISPs) — and harder to access other content.
Harder to access "other content." Conservative websites, for instance.
Wheeler is an Obama loyalist and fundraiser.
It has been suggested that the FCC itself has become "lawless."
While unable to disclose the proposed regulations on his own, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has been sounding the klaxons.
He is also sharply critical of President Barack Obama's very public push to influence policy at the FCC, which is technically an independent agency. Last year, it was widely believed that Wheeler, a former head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, would not push for Title II. Pai calls the president's actions—which included "creating a YouTube video of with very specific prescriptions as to what this agency should do"—unprecedented in his experience. Coupled with the fact that "the agency suddenly chang[ed]course from where it was to mimic the president’s plan," says Pai, "suggests that the independence of the agency has been compromised to some extent."Google gets to dictate to the FCC what should happen, but for some reason the American voter has no say, and much worse, we have to pass it to find out what's in it.
And that's still not the worst of it. The biggest red flag?
Soros.
George Soros is the author of this statement:
“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”
Soros is the destroyer of economies. He gleefully speaks of the collapse of the West:
Billionaire investor George Soros, infamous for his lavish funding of big-government and globalist causes, dropped several bombshells during a recent interview with Newsweek including a bold forecast of potential Western economic collapse, massive civil unrest, and the end of what he likes to paint as the “free market.” He also sees the emergence of one of the most dangerous periods in modern history, describing it as a time of “evil.”It's alleged that Soros has "Seven Steps" for bringing down a country:Riots on the streets of America are inevitable, the financier explained, expressing his thoughts on the subject in a manner Newsweek described as “almost gleefully.” And it will likely be used by authorities as an excuse to crack down on dissent. The “strong-arm tactics” Soros predicts will be employed could even bring about a “repressive political system” in the U.S. where individual liberty is curtailed, he said.
“The collapse of the Soviet system was a pretty extraordinary event, and we are currently experiencing something similar in the developed world, without fully realizing what’s happening,” he told the magazine before heading off to the World Economic Forum in Davos, a yearly gathering of top central bankers, executives, and political figures set to begin on Wednesday.
In the article, essentially a profile on the infamous billionaire entitled “George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War,” the Hungarian-born hedge-fund manager claimed he did not really know what to invest in at the moment. Sources close to Soros told the magazine that he was sitting on a lot of cash.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
If you like your internet, you will be able to keep your internet. Period.
No one will take them away. No matter what.
You know he is enjoying our panic and angry rhetoric. He is trying to draw us out for the k!ll.
I like the picture.
Of course, if we're talking about Fundamental Transformation, we could also use this:
Can it be overturned?
It would be easier to overturn the island of Guam.
“It has been suggested that the FCC has become lawless.” Really? Like tax investigations? Lawlessness is a resume builder in the Imam in Chiefs’ administration.
Nothing like relying on a law from 1934 to hammer home the fact that government agencies can stomp freedom in to the dirt.
Few things militate against the Individual with the relentless focus of global information technology. Everywhere it has been employed, it has demolished hierarchies of authority, eradicated "subsidiarity" by consolidating control of anything that depends on information into fewer and larger hands. Is there anything in the material economy that doesn't depend on information?As McLuhan points out, instant, global communication renders sovereign national borders as quaint formalities, leading ultimately and inevitably to some form of virtual de facto superstate. Such an entity has the means to control people's access to, perceptions of, and uses of information, rendering them effective wards of its power, relieved of anything that can truly be called "individuality." You won't conform? Then you won't get the goodies, because your credentials will be revoked. So will be the Digital Pentecost, where a person ultimately is a source of tax revenue - a "number", if you will, to a superstate.
This is the real problem with technology. Selfies are only a distraction, proof that people's eyes are really off the ball.
Rule of Law doesn't matter anymore. The way power works is by controlling capital and by doling out "waiver" favors.
Before anything can be "revoked", the new technological regime has been installed and instant inertia keeps it there.
Can it be overturned?
kIlLThEMaChINeS.
For the fist time in human history, the one, single thread that unites mankind from one end of the globe to the other has become a rein in the hands of a single man.
I didn’t realize the FCC was a branch of the government, and a superior, unitary one at that.
Obama wants the U.N. to rule the internet.. Heck.. He wants the U.N. to rule the World with him at the helm.
AFAIK, 1919 is when the Supreme Court decided the constitution wasn't binding:
We admit that, in many places and in ordinary times, the defendants, in saying all that was said in the circular, would have been within their constitutional rights. […] It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.This, despite the constitution clearly saying:
— from Schenck v. United States
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Great point.
Ok, so they passed it.
Now where is the complete unredacted text of the regulations?
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