Posted on 10/09/2014 7:35:33 AM PDT by xzins
There has been mounting evidence in the last two weeks that the Internet, one of the last unregulated venues for communication, might well be headed for federal regulation.
What makes the specter of Internet regulation (or "net neutrality," as its proponents prefer to call it) all the more ominous is that it might become law through rulings by the Federal Communications Commission rather than a vote of elected representatives in Congress.
On Sept. 24, the Washington Post reported that the FCC was working with activists seeking to generate comments in favor of tough, 1930s-style regulation of telephone. In what the Post’s Nancy Scola dubbed "an unusual collaboration," supporters of net neutrality "were keeping up a round-the-clock watch of ECFS’s [Electronic Comment Filing System] health. Headquartered in Southwest Washington, D.C., the FCC’s technologists were doing the same.
By the time the September 15 deadline rolled around for public comments on "so-called net neutrality," Scola reported, 3.7 million comments had been recorded by the federal government, more than the FCC has gotten on any debate in its 80-year history."
Opponents of "so-called net neutrality" hit this hard.
"If the Post’s report is accurate," wrote Mike Wendy of MediaFreedom in an open letter to the FCC Inspector General, then his organization "believes this ‘unusual collaboration’ undermines the Commission’s open rulemaking process, revealing in it a bias that defeats the needed reason and factual underpinning for a lawful rule to result."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
They ignorantly fall for the BS story about those evil Carriers (you know, the phone companies) who will pick winners and losers on the Internet.
NOTHING could be further from, or a greater distortion of the truth.
It's VERY simple: Should a business owner be able to charge extra for better service? Or, must they serve all comers equally no matter how much time and effort (resource/bandwidth cost) they require?
The FCC’s track record with the media is as a censor.
That is where they will go. No matter the tax straw man that is the presenting justification, they will go eventually to censorship.
Thank you very much. xzins
I wonder if future authors will write about the ‘shot heard around the world’ involving hamstringing the internet???
Count on it.
Take that to the bank.
If that happens, look for revolt to start.
It looks like we are closer to revolt down the road.
You will see I predict a new creative effort for a free internet down the road.
They are planting the seeds for a future revolt.
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
If power comes from the end of the gun, then liberals have disarmed themselves given their hatred of the 2d amendment
....just sayin’
see #31
“It is deeply disturbing that FCC staff appear to be disregarding arguments that do not fit a preconceived agenda,” said Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment, which organized over 800,000 comments against net neutrality. “As an independent, expert agency, the FCC has an obligation to weigh arguments and evidence evenly before making decisions. However, the FCC’s recent process failures threaten one of the greatest assets of any independent agency: its perceived objectivity.”
It’s “objectivity” is compromised by direct orders from Obama saying “git ‘er done”.
The FCC needs to be cut way back to just licensing of frequencies for broadcast radio/tv and public saftey and business 2 way radio systems.
Rather it will be spoken by those Americans who armed up themselves.
Well, being as one of the LEAST regulated venues for communication, by all means it MUST be regulated. What would we do without these people telling us how to run our lives?
F U B O!
It should have started LONG ago. They know that the majority of people are sheeple and will follow whatever orders are given.
We are mere frogs in hot water waiting to boil.
No actually it is government, government will always outpace its limits thus must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
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