Posted on 06/02/2011 5:40:26 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch describe extensive collusion by Federal Communications Commission officials with a left-wing advocacy group in a campaign to expand government regulation of the Internet.
The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch in a December 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, were created after Democrat appointees solidified their 3-2 control of the agency in March 2009.
Judicial Watch is a conservative nonprofit that specializes in using the FOIA and other avenues to expose corruption in government.
The coordination between FCC officials and Free Press, the advocacy group, was on behalf of a proposal that the agency assert authority to regulate access to the Internet as if it were a public utility in the interest of insuring "Net Neutrality."
Proponents said doing so would assure equal access for all Internet users by barring companies from offering preferred rates for higher delivery speeds. Other users, especially in communities with limited Internet access, would be forced to accept poorer service.
But critics said the proposal would actually give the FCC the first tool it needed to ultimately regulate content, and they argued that the FCC has no authority over the medium in the first place. It would be akin to forcing FedEx and UPS to treat all packages the same way the U.S. Postal Service does.
Free Press is the most vocal of a number of far-left and liberal advocacy groups that for nearly a decade have pushed numerous proposals for vastly increasing government regulation of the Internet.
The evidence of coordination between FCC Democrats and Free Press uncovered by Judicial Watch includes:
? Emails between former Free Press president John Silver and Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps from October 2010, coordinating "how we'd like to proceed during these next three months on NN [net neutrality]."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Sons-a -beaches.
Breathe deep.
Again, breath deep. not helping.
As someone once said, FOIA was those only thing the hippies got right.
Swap “those” and “the” in my above post, please.
The libs proposals just don't make sense. Charging more for faster access is just good business practice. So, what is the real purpose and objective???
McChesney’s group. Rabid Leftist.
“Leftist ‘Media Reform’ Outfit Free Press and Their Marxist Co-Founder Robert McChesney”
By Seton Motley | November 02, 2009 |
To drive private ISPs out of business so we can have ObamaNet.
I wish I was joking.
Search this:
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
To censor the opposition!! That’s the objective and nothing else. There would be no Free Republic, Blaze, Flopping Aces, etc. under “Net Nuetrality”!
yet another example of the civic liability the Federal Gov’mt as become to We the People and our United States.
Free Press is the most vocal of a number of far-left and liberal advocacy groups that for nearly a decade have pushed numerous proposals for vastly increasing government regulation of the Internet.
The evidence of coordination between FCC Democrats and Free Press uncovered by Judicial Watch includes:
* Emails between former Free Press president John Silver and Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps from October 2010, coordinating “how we’d like to proceed during these next three months on NN [net neutrality].”
* Documents summarizing a phone call between Silver and Copps in which, before an FCC vote on the proposal in November 2010, Silver “emphasized that a strong net neutrality rule is critical to preserving the Internet as a vibrant forum for speech, commerce, innovation and cultural expression.”
* Correspondence between FCC Special Counsel David Tannenbaum and Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott coordinating speakers for a taxpayer-funded series of FCC “internet workshops” that were intended to generate public support for the proposal.
Free Press was co-founded by Monthly Review editor Robert McChesney and the Nation contributor John Nichols. The Monthly Review is “an independent Marxist journal,” while the Nation has long described itself as “the flagship of the left.” Free Press is partially funded by George Soros’ Open Society Institute.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/06/conn-carroll-documents-show-fcc-coordinated-net-neutrality-effort-outside#ixzz1ODMI6juM
That's why I called it ObamaNet.
The details are even worse than they seem:
The Marxist Roots of Net Neutrality
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2711488/posts
Here Comes The Internet Regulatory Creep
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2699677/posts
Net neutrality always was and is a fiat takeover of the internet. There’s no other reason soros would be involved.
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