Senators introduce Freedom For Consumer Choice Act

The Cypress Times ^ | 07/22/2010 | Staff

[Patriot1259]

FCC Act would stop federal takeover of the Internet, prevent job losses, protect consumer choice, and promote free market competition.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) joined Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), Orrin Hatch (R- Utah), John Ensign (R-Nevada), John Thune (R- South Dakota), Tom Coburn (R- Oklahoma), and Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) in introducing the Freedom for Consumer Choice Act (FCC Act). This legislation, based on language from Sen. DeMint’s 2005 Digital Age Communications Act (DACA), is intended to institute needed, market-based reforms to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) rulemaking authority.

Senator Cornyn said, “This bill protects consumers and those who invest in broadband networks, and ensures that innovations are free of unnecessary federal interference. During this critical time for our economy and American families, this action is vital to maintaining jobs that many Americans already depend on.”

[TomGuy]

Be wary of unintended consequences.

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are free of unnecessary federal interference

In an ideal world, we would all be free of unnecessary federal interference. But that will never happen. Federal government, agencies, departments, Congress, have to keep themselves occupied, so they create regulations and forms and activities that interfere with everyday life.

[humblegunner]

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Why?

[TribalPrincess2U]

he has already taken over

http://www.examiner.com/x-2684-Law-Enforcement-Examiner~y2010m7d22-Government-Internet-control-viewed-as-necessary-by-Feds