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Save the Internet: FCC Net Neutrality rules worst example of government intervention... ever
FoxNews.com Opinion ^ | February 26, 2015 | David Asman

Posted on 02/26/2015 4:38:03 PM PST by Republican Wildcat

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The two Republican FCC Commissioners (out of a total of five) know exactly how important this new plan really is. Commissioner Ajit Pai has called the new FCC plan “a massive shift in favor of government control of the Internet…everything from your wireless service plan, to your wire line connection at home.”

These new rules would not only affect your services, it would also give FCC regulators the power to decide what content on the Internet was “just and reasonable.” Commissioner Tom Wheeler makes the absurd comment that the FCC would never use those powers. But in a February 4 issue of Wired, he already hints at ways bureaucrats could start dictating what they view as “threats” on the Internet:

“…my proposal includes a general conduct rule that can be used to stop new and novel threats to the Internet. This means the action we take will be strong enough and flexible enough not only to deal with the realities of today, but also to establish ground rules for the as yet unimagined.”

In other words, they want to establish new rules and regulations for stuff that hasn’t even been imagined yet!

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dsj02; fcc; internet; internetcastration; netneutrality; netnuetered; stasi
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1 posted on 02/26/2015 4:38:04 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

FoxNews you are next in line to be removed from service. He will not stop until you are gone!


2 posted on 02/26/2015 4:40:01 PM PST by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I hate Nazis. Now, they are running our country.


3 posted on 02/26/2015 4:40:36 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal aliens are far superior to Americans. - So say the 'RATS and RINOs.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Modern day Stamp Tax.

Where is our Sam Adams.


4 posted on 02/26/2015 4:41:42 PM PST by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Can it be overturned?


5 posted on 02/26/2015 4:43:55 PM PST by jobim (.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I guess I should learn Morse Code and smoke signals.


6 posted on 02/26/2015 4:44:51 PM PST by Mark (Obama Care is now DEMOCRAT CARE)
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To: Mark
We'll have to watch "Wuthering Heights" in Semaphore.


7 posted on 02/26/2015 4:47:34 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Republican Wildcat

ADIOS Internet. Gracias El presidente. We will always vote democrat. -Illegal Aliens.


8 posted on 02/26/2015 4:49:36 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: jobim

There is a good chance of a court challenge. I’ve seen this compared to the EPA claiming for itself powers to reclassify certain things as pollutants so they can impose regulations without additional legislation giving them the authority, which the Courts struck down. In this case they don’t have the power to regulate the internet so they voted to reclassify it as something else so they can apply laws that were meant to regulate something else to it.


9 posted on 02/26/2015 4:51:10 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Lets Roll NOW

More like the Sedition Act


10 posted on 02/26/2015 4:51:34 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Republican Wildcat

Anyone feel like we are being taxed but have no representation?
Everyday, people, another stick in the eye of America.


11 posted on 02/26/2015 4:52:39 PM PST by two23 (What Would George Washington Do?)
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To: Republican Wildcat

FCC over reach ping


12 posted on 02/26/2015 4:53:10 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Republican Wildcat

What I want to know is what is ‘wrong’ with the Internet that requires government intervention to ‘fix’ it ???


13 posted on 02/26/2015 4:55:49 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
These new rules would not only affect your services, it would also give FCC regulators the power to decide what content on the Internet was “just and reasonable.”

No, it doesn't. It gives the FCC the power to decide whether agreements between broadband providers and content providers are "just and reasonable"--which is bad enough, mind you--but it does not give the FCC the power to determine whether content itself is "just and reasonable."

14 posted on 02/26/2015 4:56:15 PM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Republican Wildcat
If you like your freedom of speech, you will be able to keep your freedom of speech. Period.

If you like your internet, you will be able to keep your internet. Period.

No one will take them away. No matter what.


15 posted on 02/26/2015 4:56:26 PM PST by OwenKellogg (CRUZ or LOSE!)
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To: Republican Wildcat; All

The big problem with FCC is that only the elected members of Congress have the constitutional authority to make laws and regulations based on powers which the states have delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution. But corrupt, RINO-controlled Congress is choosing to hide behind non-elected FCC bureaucrats with respect to unpopular federal policy concerning interstate electronic communications.


16 posted on 02/26/2015 4:56:45 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Republican Wildcat

Has the report even been released?
I think the idea is to delay the release, so that they will have enforcement in place to shut down any website that publishes and/ or comments on the rules.
How so typical of the 0bama tyrants, how Kafkaesque. Create secret rules with the force of law; then launch pre-dawn SWAT raids on selected targets. DHS to act as Gestapo enforcement arm.
I wouldn’t expect anything to happen right away. But the regime will act to eliminate opposition when there is a big event that distracts the sheeple.


17 posted on 02/26/2015 4:57:44 PM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats & GOPe delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Doncha know? It’s yet another *crisis* that 0bola HAS to fix....like our “broken” healthcare system, immigration laws, ammo access, etc, etc.


18 posted on 02/26/2015 4:58:26 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Republican Wildcat

My “just and reasonable” comment is Impeach Obama and rescind this FCC ruling.


19 posted on 02/26/2015 4:59:18 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Republican Wildcat
In this case they don’t have the power to regulate the internet so they voted to reclassify it as something else so they can apply laws that were meant to regulate something else to it.

I believe that the courts identified their current approach as a way around the approach that the court had struck down, so it may not be a slam dunk that the courts will overturn this. I'm sure much of it will be an overreach, so we'll see how it turns out.

20 posted on 02/26/2015 5:01:44 PM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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