Posted on 11/16/2023 12:39:58 PM PST by Aquamarine
The FCC voted today on a plan that gives the Federal government full control over the Internet. The plan passed by a 3-2 margin. A press release posted immediately after the meeting stated, in part, “Under the new rules, the Commission can investigate possible instances of discrimination of broadband access, work with companies to solve problems, facilitate mediation, and, when necessary, penalize companies for violating the rules. The FCC will review consumer complaints of digital discrimination of access through an improved consumer complaint portal and staff will meet monthly to assess trends in complaint patterns. Finally, the Commission adopted model policies and best practices that will support states, local and Tribal governments in their efforts to combat digital discrimination.”
The decision means that the Biden Administration is well on its way to implementing the plan that FCC commissioner Brendan Carr said “…reads like a planning document drawn up in the faculty lounge of a university’s Soviet Studies Department.” Commissioner Carr sent out his letter of dissent last week to warn the public about this “unlawful power grab” that “chooses central planning over free market capitalism.”
The plan is marketed as though it will prevent digital discrimination and a way to ensure equal access to broadband internet in the United States. While equal access is a component of liberty and freedom, this plan gives sweeping access and regulatory control over all aspects of the Internet business. According to the plan document, the FCC would have the power to regulate the following aspects as it relates to each Internet Service Provider:
(Excerpt) Read more at thehighwire.com ...
Just in time for 2024.
Lets hope that someone sue them for exceeding their authority, and that they get slapped down. We need to return to the constitutional fact that only congress can make federal laws.
With the latest SCOTUS rulings on “Chevron Deference,” the FCC will need to have an underlying statute passed by Congress, or else they’ll get slapped down in court.
Will anyone be granted standing?
Making Internet access a right.
Hope we have a low-tech back-up plan...
The Government controls everything, it only took 200 or so years.
And white dudes like me have to pay for it?
Money shot:
Carr’s letter stated, “Even in the absence of any evidence of intentional discrimination, the Biden plan states the FCC can impose potentially unbounded liability if the agency finds that some act or even failure to act happened to result in a disparate impact based on the FCC’s own judgment. Reading this theory of liability into the law conflicts with the Supreme Court’s civil rights precedent. The FCC should not adopt it.”
What’s that smell?
Will they eventually license the Internet like the do with amateur radio operators, one which can be revoked?
The FCC can create expensive trouble for ISP’s, in a wide variety of ways, if they don’t give preferential treatment to designated “oppressed individuals”.
Here we go. Alles klar, Komissar.
It’s time for another American Revolution.
I’d make smoke signals but I’d need a burn permit.
the FCC isn’t congress and cant write or create laws.
"Your actions are perhaps the most racist thing we have ever seen, and we will fine you up the wazoo."
"But I took no action!"
Your failure to act is perhaps the most racist thing we have ever seen, and we will fine you up the wazoo."
According to Karl Marx:
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
The government decides what you have to pay based on your income and/or assets, and the government decides who gets broadband access for free.
It’s a diktat.
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