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.
They should also require the discloser of the source of funding for any political dossier’s released by the FBI.
The Empure 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.
You open the door to regulation a crack and politics come flowing in. Progressive “reform” is inevitable.
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?
Today, political ads paid with foreign money; tomorrow, your website ... slippery slope ....
The operative word here is "paid" and as long as the regulation is limited to paid advertisements, I don't have an issue with it.
All you need is servers in foreign countries (Canada, UK, heck Tuvalu if need be). The U.S. could no more legislate against a paid political ad from a third party than they could a full page ad in Le Monde.
I’d like to see a reg where paid posters on sites (with more than, say, 1000 members) get a little asterisk or something next to their screen name that makes them easy to ID. Big fine for company that pays them if they don’t reveal they are paid to post. $100 fine per tweet, half goes to person who rats them out.
Put soros and brock out of business.