Posted on 11/07/2023 8:00:52 AM PST by george76
Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr is calling the Biden administration's "digital equity" plan for all internet services and infrastructure an "unlawful power grab."
Biden’s plan hands the Administrative State effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the country. Never before, in the roughly 40-year history of the public Internet, has the FCC (or any federal agency for that matter) claimed this degree of control over it. Indeed, Biden’s plan calls for the FCC to apply a far-reaching set of government controls that the agency has not applied to any technology in the modern era, including Title II common carriers," Carr said ..
Carr previewed an important FCC vote next week on Nov. 15 about whether to implement the plan.
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Congress never contemplated the sweeping regulatory regime that Biden asked the FCC to adopt—let alone authorized the agency to implement it," he said.
Carr explained that the Biden administration's "broadband policies are failing" and the "costs of building Internet infrastructure in this country have skyrocketed" due to his economic policies. While the FCC has been looking to expand "new, 5G services," it has "needlessly blocked and delayed new broadband infrastructure builds" because of "regulatory red tape."
The commissioner said Joe Biden has chosen to blame "the private sector and free market capitalism itself for the Administration’s own policy shortfalls" and is pushing the FCC to adopt "a one-page section of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Infrastructure Act)," which has "new rules of breathtaking scope, all in the name of 'digital equity.'"
"For the first time ever, those rules would give the federal government a roving mandate to micromanage nearly every aspect of how the Internet functions—from how [internet service providers] allocate capital and where they build, to the services that consumers can purchase; from the profits that ISPs can realize and how they market and advertise services, to the discounts and promotions that consumers can receive. Talk about central planning," Carr warned.
If passed, the FCC would be empowered, for the first time, to regulate every ISP’s service termination terms, use of customer credit, account history, credit checks, and account termination, among many other items.
"There is no path to complying with this standardless regime. It reads like a planning document drawn up in the faculty lounge of a university’s Soviet Studies Department," Carr said.
He added, "The Biden Administration’s plan empowers the FCC to regulate every aspect of the Internet sector for the first time ever. The plan is motivated by an ideology of government control that is not compatible with the fundamental precepts of free market capitalism."
Former FCC policy adviser Evan Swarztrauber said of Biden's plan, "To call it 'extreme' or 'radical' doesn't do this proposal justice,"
"Biden is turning 'digital discrimination' into a pretext for regulating everything. For equity," Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, said of the Biden plan for the FCC.
‘sweeping, unprecedented, and unlawful’
...story of his life.
totalitarians gonna totalitarianate
How is this any different that the “Net Neutrality” or “Fairness Doctrine” crap they tried to pass years ago? They intend to eliminate free speech by whatever judicial gymnastics they can pull out of their backsides. This will not be tolerated.
FCC voted to consider a proposed rule to reestablish Obama-era “net neutrality” rules.
The FCC voted 3-2 on Thursday ..
Wow, Obama is the gift that keeps on giving.
In other words, the government would control and manage the internet and whatever goes through it. (Everything.)
Total control over commerce and thought.
UN Agenda 21 , 2030 , Great Reset, ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
What???? He's been sworn to defend our constitution for 45 years now and he still doesn't understand, you know.....the thing.
Election thievery needs an ever growing grip on control. The only way Trump is polling ahead of Biden at this point is if Biden never had the votes he said he did by Beltway tales of tabulation.
bttt
Wow. An insider actually standing up to the regime? You don’t see THAT everyday. Good for him.
btt
Equivalent to the government demanding editorial and commercial control of all newspapers, magazines, blogs and newsletters.
AKA the Reich Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment that operated in Nazi Germany.
Of course they want total control.
The thieving, lying, criminal, government needs to keep its thieving, lying, and criminality, out of public awareness.
And the big guy needs to keep the money rolling in, so he gets his 10%.
If anyone protests or tries to expose corruption/wrongdoing, just shut off their internet, and punish them.
Makes sense. 🙄
obama gonna obama.
Biden’s only worth is that he is figurehead.
He’s one of the five FCC commissioners:
https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership
I can’t remember how the FCC works or how the commissioners get their seat but I assume each has a vote. Carr certainly sounds like one of the good guys. I wonder if he was appointed during the Trump years.
The Passion to strictly regulate EVERYthing from a political point of view — progresiveism — is deep, and may no longer be stoppable. It’s a tidal wave in nearly every area — news & information, borders, national debt, local schools, taxation, transportation, food and drugs, EVERYthing.
....and “they” already dominate or control it all right now. It mey not yet be hopeless, but from here we can hear the waterfall just around the next bend in the river.
Time and the opportunity to reverse things are growing very short.
Appreciate Commissioner Carr giving the public awareness of this. Wish him the best of luck on his upcoming IRS tax audit...
Seriously, brave of him to challenge the socialist regime. Now let’s see the GOP legislators try to do likewise.
“Biden administration’s “digital equity” plan”
You gotta be kidding me, when did this start?
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