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Ted Cruz on Net Neutrality: 'Obama Is Salivating to Regulate the Internet'
Breitbart ^ | January 22, 2016 | Noah Dulis

Posted on 02/08/2016 11:10:49 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has spoken out against the government's regulation of the Internet through net neutrality in a video message Breitbart Tech can exclusively share with readers.

"That will end, and that will end immediately," Cruz declared when asked if he would continue to allow the Internet to be classified as a public utility if elected president.

[BIG SNIP]

"That's what the Internet does," he stated. "It empowers people."

Cruz described net neutrality as "Obamacare for the Internet." Beyond arguing that it would allow the government to regulate "prices and terms of sale on the Internet, deciding which websites are OK and which are not," Cruz noted that another component is the Obama administration "trying to give the Internet away," turning over control to "an international body of stakeholders, such paragons of free speech as Russia and China."

"We're reliving the 1970s: Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal, and Barack Obama is trying to give away the internet," Cruz argued, before noting to great applause, "I mean, after all, Al Gore invented it!"

"If I am president, we will keep the Internet entirely free of regulations, entirely free of taxes," Cruz concluded. "No net taxes, no net regulations, leave the Internet free and open to the American people."

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freespeech; internet; netneutrality; tedcruz
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Sept 30, 2015: What No One Seems to Know About Ted Cruz's Past

Nov 10, 2014: Cruz: 'Net Neutrality Is Obamacare For The Internet'

May 14, 2014: Ted Cruz bill would ban 'FCC's latest adventure in net neutrality'

Jan 13, 2004: FTC Policy Planning Director Ted Cruz Appointed Solicitor General of Texas

"....Mr. Cruz has led the Office of Policy Planning since June of 2001. The Office assists the Commission in developing and implementing long-range policy and legal objectives, advises on cases raising novel or complex legal issues, and directs the FTC's Competition Advocacy program. In addition, Mr. Cruz has chaired the FTC's State Action Task Force, Noerr-Pennington Task Force, and Internet Task Force. He argued successfully for the agency in In re Buspirone, 185 F.Supp.2d 363 (S.D.N.Y. 2002), a major Noerr precedent that cleared the way for continued antitrust scrutiny of anticompetitive conduct that could frustrate the sale of generic pharmaceuticals to consumers. And, he organized a ground-breaking three-day public workshop at the FTC examining possible anticompetitive efforts to restrict competition on the Internet.

Prior to his tenure at the FTC, Mr. Cruz served as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, as Domestic Policy Advisor to President Bush on the Bush-Cheney campaign, and as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court...."

July 17, 2002: FTC to Host Public Workshop to Explore Possible Anticompetitive Efforts to Restrict Competition on the Internet

On October 8-10, 2002, the Federal Trade Commission will host a three-day public workshop to explore how certain state regulations and private business practices may be having significantly anticompetitive effects on e-commerce. Some private estimates suggest that the potential costs to consumers of these anticompetitive restrictions "may exceed $15 billion annually."......

""Similarly, some private companies have engaged in conduct that may raise antitrust issues," the Notice continues. For instance, some dealers do not list prices for certain items they sell online; others refrain from selling certain items in their product line over the Internet at all, and urge competitors to follow suit. Again, some or all of these restrictions could be justified as procompetitive, or they could prove anticompetitive upon closer examination.

"Robust competition is vital to our economy, and reducing the barriers to e-commerce dramatically could increase competition and benefit consumers," said FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris. "E-commerce has tremendous potential, especially if anticompetitive barriers to dynamic new forms of Internet competition can be understood and eliminated," added FTC's Director of Policy Planning Ted Cruz.

1 posted on 02/08/2016 11:10:50 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"We're reliving the 1970s: Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal, and Barack Obama is trying to give away the internet,"

Making America weaker has always been a labor of love for progs.

2 posted on 02/08/2016 11:17:54 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

if that had been the bell boy we would have heard..

Obama is salivating to control the internet

but but you know it’s true Barack Obama is salivating to control the internet

it’s like I have said the fact is Barack Obama is salivating to take control of the internet and when I’m President that won’t happen because we are the greatest country in the world

well you didn’t want to go home and shovel snow Christie and btw you know Obama is just salivating to control the internet it’s no mistake it’s his plan


3 posted on 02/08/2016 11:24:41 PM PST by Lib-Lickers 2
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Texas Solicitor General

"Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008. The office had been established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction." As Solicitor General, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four.

Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court. Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress. Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."

In 2003, while Cruz was Texas Solicitor General, the Texas Attorney General's office declined to defend Texas' sodomy law in Lawrence v. Texas, where the U.S. Supreme Court decided that state laws banning homosexual sex as illegal sodomy were unconstitutional.

In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.

In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, in which he wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that the plaintiff did not have standing to file suit on behalf of his daughter. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz's brief.

Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5-4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.

Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt to re-open the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention. Texas won the case in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.

Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America, and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century."

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4 posted on 02/08/2016 11:25:00 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

King obama will have zero tolerance of those who slander islam.


5 posted on 02/08/2016 11:28:49 PM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yeah, but his college roommate said he (Cruz) was a jerk. /s


6 posted on 02/08/2016 11:33:14 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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Net Neutrality vs freedom of speech.

Rush Limbaugh has been on top of this too.

Sept 18, 2014: Limbaugh is Right, Net Neutrality Is An Attack On Free Speech -- So Why Is Comcast For It?

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".....Net neutrality is an idea that would give the FCC oversight of every Internet service provider in the country. Government could next expand because each Internet service provider needs clarification when applying new net neutrality regulations. Innovation, naturally would be diminished in such a new regulatory regime, as some of the Internet service providers' funds would have to go to hiring people to deal with the FCC, as well as to complying with regulations and lobbying for better regulations. Since the late 1990s private companies have spent hundreds of billions of dollars developing America's Internet. This money could dry up if the companies can't make profits from their investments.".......

Feb 24, 2015: Young Listeners Fall for Net Neutrality Lies -- But They Have No Idea What's in Obama's Plan

7 posted on 02/08/2016 11:34:07 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

BTTT...


8 posted on 02/08/2016 11:43:38 PM PST by LowOiL (I only accept advice from those so uber rich they can not by bought by special interests.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All
He mention the folks in PJ's who took down Blather Ra ther We know who that was!
9 posted on 02/08/2016 11:48:43 PM PST by maine-iac7 (A Christian is as a Christian does - "By their works...")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

this subject confused me a little. there’s a shock lol


10 posted on 02/08/2016 11:57:18 PM PST by dp0622
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I am in the middle of reading Ted Cruz's thesis from Princeton.

He has a grasp of our Founding documents that is unlike anyone else in Congress, except for maybe Ben Sasse.

It is great reading.

11 posted on 02/09/2016 12:01:16 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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Wow.

You send your time wisely.


12 posted on 02/09/2016 12:03:45 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: dp0622

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/02/24/young_listeners_fall_for_net_neutrality_lies_but_they_have_no_idea_what_s_in_obama_s_plan


13 posted on 02/09/2016 12:04:42 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: maine-iac7
....We know who that was!

: )

14 posted on 02/09/2016 12:05:07 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: blackdog
Yeah, but his college roommate said he (Cruz) was a jerk. /s

Ted knew he was going into the den of liberaldom when he decided to go the Princeton.

His dad was concerned but Ted essentially told him something like ''Dad, I got this.''

So, he took on the libs and learned to beat them back.

No wonder Trump said that you can't make deals with a guy like that.

Ted Cruz reminds me of Reagan at Reykjavík.

He knows when a deal is bad for the American people.

15 posted on 02/09/2016 12:15:49 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: Slyfox

I went to Oxford, same College as Billy C, actually (I have stories), but do not mistake Net Neutrality for control. It’s quite the opposite.

Net Neutrality is something *good*. It means FR can keep on keeping on without the media throttling it.


16 posted on 02/09/2016 12:45:02 AM PST by some tech guy (Stop trying to help, Obama)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thanks Cinc


17 posted on 02/09/2016 12:47:49 AM PST by dp0622
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thanks Cinc


18 posted on 02/09/2016 12:51:55 AM PST by dp0622
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hey Cruz, good job stopping Obama again....NOT!

Ted is a big talker who accomplishes nothing.


19 posted on 02/09/2016 2:25:07 AM PST by patq (Teddy Cruz is All Talk and No Action)
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——Hey Cruz, good job stopping Obama again....NOT!-——

One guy in a body of 100....I guess you don’t understand how the senate works...

Just in what way would Trump stop Obama?

Call him a loser ?


20 posted on 02/09/2016 2:41:08 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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