PING!
Engulfing the Internet: FCC takes next step to neutralize the net
American Spectator ^ | 6.17.10 @ 6:10AM
Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010
The commission’s chairman, Julius Genachowski, and his staff have insisted that imposing federal regulations originally written in the 1930s for the telephone is the only way the Obama Administration can gain the “kind of oversight and control that we need,” says an FCC staffer with ties to another Democrat commissioner....
Under the Obama Administration’s plan, the FCC would be able to enforce so-called “net neutrality” rules, allowing the federal government to set how broadband and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) manage the networks. By bringing broadband and the Internet under FCC regulatory oversight, the FCC would also be able to impose policies related to speech or online business models.
"The American public really has no idea how devastating these policies are going to have on free speech and the Internet," says a Republican Senate staffer.
"If they are able to impose these regulations, they would be able to impose a host of different regulations that would limit free speech online and essentially give the left the upper hand. First the auto industry, then health care and the financial services industry, now this."
[Thanks, maggief.]
This regime is out of control and lawless. Enough is enough! Thanks for the ping maggie. We always have to watch what every hydra of the Obama marxist regime is doing 24/7. God Bless you for all you do in that regard.