Posted on 05/04/2015 11:25:00 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
(CNSNews.com) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Ajit Pai said over the weekend that he foresees a future in which federal regulators will seek to regulate websites based on political content, using the power of the FCC or Federal Elections Commission (FEC). He also revealed that his opposition to net neutrality regulations had resulted in personal harassment and threats to his family.
Speaking on a panel at the annual Right Online conference in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Pai told audience members, I can tell you it has not been an easy couple of months personally. My address has been publicly released. My wifes name, my kids names, my kids birthdays, my phone number, all kinds of threats [have come] online.
Pai, one of two Republicans on the five-member FCC, has been an outspoken critic of net neutrality regulations passed by the agency on Feb. 6. The rules, which are set to take effect on June 12, reclassify Internet providers as utilities and command them not to block or throttle online traffic.
However, Pai said it was only the beginning. In the future, he said, I could easily see this migrating over to the direction of content
What youre seeing now is an impulse not just to regulate the roads over which traffic goes, but the traffic itself...
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Hmmm, may have to code a Drudge replacement that runs via distributed web site that cannot be shutdown so easily
It’s already in the works....
“Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Ajit Pai said over the weekend that he foresees a future in which federal regulators will seek to regulate websites based on political content . . . “
They best be well-armed
PSSSHAAA, no one saw that coming /s. Welcome to my nightmare. Stalinist purges with a high tech twist. Orwell didn’t have a vivid enough imagination to dream up what’s really going to happen.
He could always host his site outside of the US. Of course, the FEC would restrict access to that site from people in the US. The way around that is to use a VPN - that is until they outlaw VPN use in the US.
Up until recently, he could have run the site on a TOR hidden service (though I don't know how that would affect his advertising- plus it is a little hard for the average person to access ). But the NSA has compromised about half of those services, so they could shut it down.
When Drudge puts up a link its like turning a spotlight that is slightly less powerful than the Sun on the subject.
Bottom line if Drudge points his powerful Internet finger at a story, it becomes news... especially if he makes it the headline on his site. And that is because of the sheer number of people who visit his site daily.
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