Save the Internet: FCC Net Neutrality rules worst example of government intervention... ever

The two Republican FCC Commissioners (out of a total of five) know exactly how important this new plan really is. Commissioner Ajit Pai has called the new FCC plan “a massive shift in favor of government control of the Internet…everything from your wireless service plan, to your wire line connection at home.”

These new rules would not only affect your services, it would also give FCC regulators the power to decide what content on the Internet was “just and reasonable.” Commissioner Tom Wheeler makes the absurd comment that the FCC would never use those powers. But in a February 4 issue of Wired, he already hints at ways bureaucrats could start dictating what they view as “threats” on the Internet:

“…my proposal includes a general conduct rule that can be used to stop new and novel threats to the Internet. This means the action we take will be strong enough and flexible enough not only to deal with the realities of today, but also to establish ground rules for the as yet unimagined.”

In other words, they want to establish new rules and regulations for stuff that hasn’t even been imagined yet!

“The trees are all kept equal. By hatchet, axe, and saw.”

struck me as now there is a need to appeal to heaven.
for instance the the original pine tree revolt. bigger than the tea party. the pine tree flag was the first navy flag ordered by washington. it was a slap in the face to every ship in the british navy as they had marked all the trees for masts. just linking this as someone would like the history
this from history link john locke on the appeal to heaven as the last resort.
That npt tax but taking sealed all pine trees for the king by mark. here is Locke’s description of a people so vexed that they appeal to heaven and then take up arms.

The old question will be asked in this matter of prerogative, But who shall be judge when this power is made a right use of? I answer: between an executive power in being, with such a prerogative, and a legislative that depends upon his will for their convening, there can be no judge on earth; as there can be none between the legislative and the people, should either the executive, or the legislative, when they have got the power in their hands, design, or go about to enslave or destroy them. The people have no other remedy in this, as in all other cases where they have no judge on earth, but to appeal to heaven: for the rulers, in such attempts, exercising a power the people never put into their hands, (who can never be supposed to consent that any body should rule over them for their harm) do that which they have not a right to do. And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven. And this judgment they cannot part with, it being out of a man’s power so to submit himself to another, as to give him a liberty to destroy him; God and nature never allowing a man so to abandon himself, as to neglect his own preservation: and since he cannot take away his own life, neither can he give another power to take it. Nor let any one think, this lays a perpetual foundation for disorder; for this operates not, till the inconveniency is so great, that the majority feel it, and are weary of it, and find a necessity to have it amended. But this the executive power, or wise princes, never need come in the danger of: and it is the thing, of all others, they have most need to avoid, as of all others the most perilous.

– John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government – Sec. 168

WTF ever.

This is the purview of the Congress and if they will not act then you and I are screwed, period.

The FCC hasn’t the authority to do this, not even statutory actions without oversight BY CONGRESS.

This is “The Stamp Act” all over again and brings up my pitiful public Skrewel Edumuhcation:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.....

Democrats/socialists/Marxist/Fascists are experts at packing evil in nicely-labeled packages.

There is nothing “neutral” about “Net Neutrality.” Again, conservatives are failing in the name-game. They need to rename it in the media aggressively so it sticks.

The proper name for it is: “Net CONTROL!”

The government fascists want to CONTROL something that is prospering and working fine. There is no need to add another layer of bureaucracy.

Another more correct name for it is: “Net BIAS!”

From now on, government will use FORCE to implement their BIAS as to how internet access works. The Government is FAR FROM NEUTRAL.

THERE IS NOTHING NEUTRAL ABOUT THIS SCAM, FOLKS!!

[[There is a good chance of a court challenge. I’ve seen this compared to the EPA claiming for itself powers to reclassify certain things as pollutants so they can impose regulations without additional legislation giving them the authority, which the Courts struck down. In this case they don’t have the power to regulate the internet so they voted to reclassify it as something else so they can apply laws that were meant to regulate something else to it.]]

Good golly I hope you’re right- and I hope that IF the courts strike it down that the GOP yells loud and clear until people understand what a bunch of thugs the left are for even having tried this crap I nthe first place-

But I have my doubts- dear leader got to john Roberts resulting in Roberts asininely claiming the HC law is constitutional despite his equally asinine brief about why he voted the way he did- so it’s no sure bet that the courts will overturn the FCC’s power grab

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