Posted on 11/16/2017 11:00:11 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In a major shift, Republicans on the Federal Election Commission plan to join Democrats Thursday in calling for new Internet regulations on paid digital political ads.
In a statement issued late Wednesday, the three GOP members cited the “thousands of comments” from the public calling for new disclosure rules in light of concerns Russian activists used Internet posts on Facebook to try to influence the 2016 presidential elections.
“We hereby move to direct the Office of General Counsel to draft a notice of proposed rulemaking, as soon as is practicable, that proposes revisions to commission rules governing disclaimers on paid Internet and digital communications,” said the three, Vice Chair Caroline C. Hunter, Matthew S. Petersen, and Lee E. Goodman.
They called for a public hearing before any changes would take place.
The support for new disclosure on paid political communications on the Internet fell short of more liberal calls for regulation on non-paid ads and political communications posted on websites like Facebook and Twitter.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Another manufactured "crisis."
Will there be restrictions on TV and print ads?
Sure is! This was the whole reason our leaders gave away the internet.
They wanted control, but didn’t want to have unclean hands for legislating it.
“Oh it’s out of our hands. We had nothing to do with this!”
This is exactly why I hate globalism.
The lost of self-rule, and sovereignty are the only two things I need to know, to know globalism is not good.
Unconstitutional...........................
Generated by a dozen pajama boys in their Mom's basements.
Nowhere in the report does it have any mention at all of what are the “new disclosure” requirements they agreed on. Stupid “journalists”!!
This is a good and proper move.
I moves control of the internet back to the people who own and operate it. Those who built the infrastructure.
And out of the hands of Google et al, who never built anything in their entire lives.
The better investigation - how much did Facebook and Google censorship of conservative individuals and content shift the election TOWARD Democrats?
That’s systematic discrimination of viewpoint, and if they’re big enough to be regulated like utilities, that is ILLEGAL as well as immoral.
No doubt another ruse to help liberals silence conservative opposition.
They cannot win without cheating.
Be careful what you wish for! The first thing the Government Regulators might do is shut FreeRepublic.
ML/NJ
They should also require the discloser of the source of funding for any political dossier’s released by the FBI.
The Empure strikes back.
The Empire strikes back.
A neat trick since the FCC has ZERO legal or statutory authority to regulate the internet.
There are no “public airwaves” or frequency interferences that we were told was the reason for the FAA.
The security state continues it’s march forward. And the GOP is right in the middle of it.
“Be careful what you wish for! The first thing the Government Regulators might do is shut FreeRepublic.”
Overturning the regulation means less regulation, not more.
No content provider is at risk of losing access to the internet, that would be illegal on another level.
The key here is now content providers will be able to purchase “quality of service” access for a higher rate. Netflix and AT&T will be able to ensure perfect delivery of their voice and video content.
Whereas Google and others wanted every bit to be treated the same. Something they don’t even do on their own internal corporate networks.
You open the door to regulation a crack and politics come flowing in. Progressive “reform” is inevitable.
Hello Google? ... I'm Russian and I want to place a political advertisement.
I could see the point about ‘paid ads’ and disclosure as to who paid for them as long as they were unfettered as to content and weren’t subject to any taxing penalties. Yet as to unpaid ads...nope free exchange of ideas. Besides it isn’t just Chinese and Russians that horn in on our media and opinion outlets.....most countries of the world do it. How many times over the years have citizens from other nations taken to newspapers, video or face book pleading with Americans not to vote for ‘cowboy; bush, or trump...you get the idea. The whole world tries to have their input into who our leaders should be...! They might have a bit of a point...ie where we launch nukes may affect them but only a little tiny teensy point. The fact is though that many nations do try to intrude via our media organs and I ‘m a bit tired of them ‘playing with our organs”!
And where does it authorize a Federal Communications Commission or anything like one?
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