Posted on 12/21/2010 8:15:26 PM PST by seamus
We'd have had a generation above what is "wired" broadband over the air five years ago (for practically nothing) if the government would get out of the way.
Full disclosure: I'm the author.
I’m only commenting now on my post, Outlaw Woman, because I could not get back to it immediately after putting it on FR. Strange ... but I’m glad FreeRepublic is back to its usual smooth-operating self.
No problem. Heck since that post we’ve experienced DADT, Regulation of carbon emissions by the marxist, START, etc.
It’s been a mind blowing spectacle watching the traitors in action.
Anyway, yes FR was acting hinky that nite for sure. Someone told me it was probably the weather in CA.
I hear ya, fellow "old-timer" at FR (circa 1990s). That is the long-term plan, let there be no doubt.
Actually, Logic n' Reason, all we need is a new Republican House to pass a bill telling the FCC to stand down. And we need the Senate to pass it which would probably happen.
Unfortunately, our president wouldn't sign that bill ... unless he had so much pressure on him that he'd have to. Regardless, lawsuits that will fly will probably circumvent all this flotsam and jetsam. And, if that doesn't work, (hopefully) a new president in 2012 will make this but a blip on the advancement on the digital economy and our freedom.
As I explain (I think) in my post at Somewhat Reasonable, a federal court told the FCC they can't do this. But they did it anyway. Some 300 members of Congress, including 82 Democrats, told them not to do this (in a non-binding letter). But the Democratic appointees on the FCC pushed it through 3-2 anyway.
That's the nature of federal bureaucracies: "We'll do what we want in an instant, and it will take years of procedures on your end to stop us." This is why the FCC cannot be allowed to get its way here and now. It must be countered by the other branches of government. Immediately. And we must be the coal in the engine of correction.
A Marxist flash mob has broken out in the Obama administration.
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