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Posted on 11/13/2014 12:59:43 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is warning that federal regulators are trying to stifle economic growth and freedom of the Internet.
The potential 2016 White House candidate on Thursday wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post warning that net neutrality is “one of the biggest regulatory threats to the Internet,” and laying out a host of policy prescriptions to save freedom online.
The Internet, he wrote, is “the American Dream, 2.0.”
New Federal Communications Commission rules, however, would “invariably destroy innovation and freedom,” he argued.
“We don’t leave our constitutional rights behind when we go online,” Cruz wrote. “The same commitment to the principles of liberty that made the United States the greatest economic superpower that the world has ever seen must prevail in the virtual world as well."
Cruz was one of the GOP’s most vocal critics of President Obama’s call for the FCC to reclassify Internet service as a utility earlier this week. His Thursday op-ed repeats and expands upon the claim that net neutrality — the notion that federal rules should ensure that companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable treat all online content equally — is “ObamaCare for the Internet.”
The op-ed seems like an aggressive appeal to young people who are native to the Internet, as part of a possible ramp-up to a presidential bid.
While Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), another likely presidential candidate, has been most associated with that demographic, Cruz seems unwilling to abandon the turf.
In addition to railing against net neutrality, Cruz praised critics of 2012 intellectual property laws that opponents said would have trampled their free speech rights. He also warned lawmakers against supporting an online sales tax bill that might come up in the lame-duck session.
The Marketplace Fairness Act would “force online retailers to comply with every sales tax jurisdiction in the country,” he warned, by allowing local jurisdictions to collect taxes when residents buy things online from other states.
“It would be a crying shame if the first thing Republicans do after winning a historic election is return to Washington for a lame-duck session and pass an unprecedented, massive new tax requirement — up to $340 billion over 10 years — on Internet sales nationwide,” he wrote, citing a conservative group's estimate.
He also rallied Republicans to oppose the Obama administration’s plan to hand off oversight of an Internet management role to a nonprofit organization that manages basic Web functions.
The action, Cruz warned, would only empower leaders in Russia, China and Iran to assert greater control of the Internet.
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A man of REASON.
Thanks for the quotes.
Will somebody please translate Cruz’s English to English? Harvard Law School-indoctrinated Cruz evidently does not understand that the Founding States made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judical branches, or in the non-elected government bureaucrats running the constituitonally undefined FCC. So Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. And by unconstitutionally delegating regulatory powers to the FCC, corrupt Congress has wrongly protected federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.
So why is Cruz not at least trying to lead the Senate to silence the constitutionally toothless FCC?
Imagine a regulated internet where your speed is only as fast as it is anywhere else, because fairness... and it is horribly high-priced while Obama’s chosen get it free, subsidized by you.
So why is Cruz not at least trying to lead the Senate to silence the constitutionally toothless FCC?Riddle me this Batman.
"The potential 2016 White House candidate on Thursday wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post warning that net neutrality is “one of the biggest regulatory threats to the Internet,” and laying out a host of policy prescriptions to save freedom online."
It ain't about controlling the internet, it's about stopping freedom ... especially of speech and thought.
As a man thinketh, so is he ... and if his thoughts are controlled by the GIGO ... We are enslaved to the wordsmiths.
I have a school board meeting tonight and I'm going to open up a big can of worms about common core (already in before I was elected)
Those Founding Father guys (and Reagan) were much more intelligent and principled than your garden variety politician (Including the GOP-E) weren’t they?!
No, he is not correct imo because I don’t foresee the FCC ultimately destroying innovation and freedom. But I do see Cruz politicking for 2016 with scare tactics directed at low-information patriots, patriots who have never been taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
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One big difference.
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Go git ‘em, FRiend !
I agree with 80% of the article, however opposition to Net Neutrality is WRONG!
Do you want to pay extra to stream video, or access a certain website? Do you want you internet provider jacking up your charges to a competitor’s website?
Really?
I like Ted Cruz but on this item, he is 100% wrong.
His other points though, are great. But we will kill the internet if we allow these the charges that net neutrality outlaws....No, I am not defending other aspects of the net neutrality bill, that’s another discussion.
You don’t have to oppose net neutrality to oppose having the FCC regulating the Internet. They are two separate issues. Net neutrality (combating extortion) can be done without the FCC—at least the net neutrality people really want.
If the FCC is given free reign, the net will become another boondoggle except it will be Washington and it’s crony corporations doing as they please rather than a couple greedy companies.
Public pressure combined with targeted legislation can address harm. Anything beyond that becomes tyranny of another sort.
You don’t know about the proposal.
Are you a tech professional? Do you follow what’s been going on with the pay-to-play shenanigans going on between service providers?
Do you know your internet may be intentionally sabotaged (limited in bandwidth) based on maybe you visited a website or downloaded something that is in direct competition with your internet provider? For example, if you have a cable provider and you use netflix — they INTENTIONALLY slow your connection, and violate their OWN service agreement.
THIS IS WHAT NET NETRUALITY is really about - NOT government control, any more than saying you can rig prices with “gentlemen’s agreements”.
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