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Debate on Internet freedom looming
Queens Courier ^ | December 8th | AISHA AL-MUSLIM

Posted on 12/08/2010 9:49:38 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is finally tackling the long-time Network Neutrality debate.

FCC chair Julius Genachowski is putting Network Neutrality – or “Net Neutrality” for short – on the tentative agenda for the scheduled open meeting on December 21. The debate centers on regulations that would require Internet service providers like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T to treat all web traffic equally, instead of allowing them to decide which sites and applications should upload faster or slower.

“We all have been waiting a very long time for the FCC to take action,” said Chancellar Williams, advocacy manager for the Media and Democracy Coalition, a collaboration of over two-dozen local and national organizations advocating for an open democratic media system.

(Excerpt) Read more at queenscourier.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; firstamendment; freespeech; internet; netneutrality; shallnotbeinfringed; wikileaks

1 posted on 12/08/2010 9:49:44 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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2 posted on 12/08/2010 9:50:42 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

And now the wiklileaks bunch is suggesting they can’t be stopped without controlling the net.


3 posted on 12/08/2010 9:53:32 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Didn’t the US Supreme court just rule that the FCC does not have authority over the cable providers? (almost by implication the internet)? And what is “public” about the internet infrastructure??

FCC has no authority over satellite radio either,,, so where do they get statutory authority to try this?


4 posted on 12/08/2010 9:58:22 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

To the DEMS: This is a bridge too far.


5 posted on 12/08/2010 10:02:16 AM PST by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: ShadowAce

WikiLeaks was the ground-work:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2639426/posts?page=16#16


6 posted on 12/08/2010 10:07:49 AM PST by Matchett-PI ( Sarah Palin / Marco Rubio - a "can't lose" ticket for 2012..)
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To: DesertRhino

Why would they let any of that stop them?

We say un neutral things. Therefore we need to be silenced. The internet *WILL* be neutral and they’ll be the ones to enforce it.


7 posted on 12/08/2010 10:14:26 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality is unpatriotic.)
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To: cripplecreek
The timing of this whole thing is just way too convenient for the globalist "NWO" types.

They believe the action is in the reaction.

I also find it suspicious that Hillary's State Dept was heavily targeted with these leaks, but nothign about Obama.

8 posted on 12/08/2010 10:29:13 AM PST by SENTINEL (Mormonism...from Ezra Taft Benson to Reid and Romney in only one generation.)
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To: SENTINEL

There is many things that don’t pass the smell test concerning the leaks. If they were actually “leaks”.


9 posted on 12/08/2010 10:32:11 AM PST by sport
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

The FCC should not exist. How many FReepers will claim that abolishing the web and free speech, though, is a small price to pay to keep us “free” and “safe” from terrorists and other “bad people” who are releasing cables detailing how the federal government is plotting to screw Americans?

The bad people we need to be worried about are in the federal government.

But really, when everyone decided that the overriding thing in life was the statistically small threat of a terrorist on an airplane, Americans abdicated their claim to their birthright of freedom and liberty.


10 posted on 12/08/2010 10:34:18 AM PST by MichiganConservative (Terrorists don't commit genocide. That's what governments do.)
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To: DesertRhino
FCC has no authority over satellite radio either,,, so where do they get statutory authority to try this?

Don't you know that if the FCC did not exist, the children would all be forced to watch porn in prime-time and only listen to people swearing on the radio.

It is so much easier to have the government police everyone else than to be a parent, you know?

11 posted on 12/08/2010 10:36:36 AM PST by MichiganConservative (Terrorists don't commit genocide. That's what governments do.)
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To: MichiganConservative

I think most freepers get it on net neutrality. From what I’ve seen, most realize that it’s the fairness doctrine for the internet.(or worse)

And most of the alphabet soup government agencies should be abolished. Their existence makes us less safe, not moreso.


12 posted on 12/08/2010 10:44:24 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality - I say a lot of unneutral things.)
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Thanks Halfmanhalfamazing. The reason Zero's let the WikiLeaks problem go from bad to worse?
13 posted on 12/08/2010 11:06:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: DesertRhino
Didn’t the US Supreme court just rule that the FCC does not have authority over the cable providers? (almost by implication the internet)? And what is “public” about the internet infrastructure??
FCC has no authority over satellite radio either,,, so where do they get statutory authority to try this?
There's nothing for it but to successfully sue.

14 posted on 12/08/2010 12:12:40 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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