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THE FCC JUST VOTED TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE INTERNET
TheHighWire.com ^ | Nov 15 2023 | STEVEN MIDDENDORP

Posted on 11/16/2023 12:39:58 PM PST by Aquamarine

The FCC voted today on a plan that gives the Federal government full control over the Internet. The plan passed by a 3-2 margin. A press release posted immediately after the meeting stated, in part, “Under the new rules, the Commission can investigate possible instances of discrimination of broadband access, work with companies to solve problems, facilitate mediation, and, when necessary, penalize companies for violating the rules. The FCC will review consumer complaints of digital discrimination of access through an improved consumer complaint portal and staff will meet monthly to assess trends in complaint patterns. Finally, the Commission adopted model policies and best practices that will support states, local and Tribal governments in their efforts to combat digital discrimination.”

The decision means that the Biden Administration is well on its way to implementing the plan that FCC commissioner Brendan Carr said “…reads like a planning document drawn up in the faculty lounge of a university’s Soviet Studies Department.” Commissioner Carr sent out his letter of dissent last week to warn the public about this “unlawful power grab” that “chooses central planning over free market capitalism.”

The plan is marketed as though it will prevent digital discrimination and a way to ensure equal access to broadband internet in the United States. While equal access is a component of liberty and freedom, this plan gives sweeping access and regulatory control over all aspects of the Internet business. According to the plan document, the FCC would have the power to regulate the following aspects as it relates to each Internet Service Provider:

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arrestbrendancarr; brendancarr; civilwar; defundfcc; fcc; fccsedition; freespeech; internet; internetcontrol; marxisttyranny; netneutrality; policestate
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To: Aquamarine

If it gets too crappy, you stop paying for it and leave. This was always a luxury.


21 posted on 11/16/2023 1:00:10 PM PST by Luke21
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To: 1Old Pro
The Government controls everything, it only took 200 or so years.

"four score and seven years"

Abraham Lincoln made the Federal government into the total control nutcase it is now.

22 posted on 11/16/2023 1:02:18 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Unbound liability”


23 posted on 11/16/2023 1:03:37 PM PST by griswold3 (I cannot change the Tide but I can learn to Sail)
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To: Aquamarine

Captain James T. Kirk: Captain’s log, Stardate 11.16.23:

I’ve never trusted Klingons, and I never will. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I’d like to believe him, but how on earth can we survive if the Klingons take over the internet????


24 posted on 11/16/2023 1:12:08 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: gibsonguy

It’s a tax.


25 posted on 11/16/2023 1:12:12 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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To: gibsonguy

Most likely the case or controversy that results in a declaration of unconstitutionality by an Article III Court will arise out of an outrageous enforcement action against a person or company ready, willing, and able to defend their rights.


26 posted on 11/16/2023 1:13:14 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Aquamarine

5 unelected people decided this. If not overturned it’s all over for us.


27 posted on 11/16/2023 1:13:38 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Revel
We need to return to the constitutional fact that only congress can make federal laws...

..and those law are only valid if they are pursuant to the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended.

28 posted on 11/16/2023 1:14:30 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Yo-Yo

The law does not matter anymore.


29 posted on 11/16/2023 1:16:54 PM PST by Aquamarine (“Trump's Trials Don't Interrupt His Campaign—They Are His Campaign.”)
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To: Yo-Yo
the FCC will need to have an underlying statute passed by Congress...

...IF that statute is pursuant to the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended. Otherwise it is an invalid federal statute. MANY federal statutes are unconstitutional and, thus, invalid.

Remember THE U.S. CONSTITUTION is the Supreme Law of the Land.

30 posted on 11/16/2023 1:18:29 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Aquamarine
"FCC would have the power to regulate customer-premises equipment, use of customer credit."

They'll say "we can't end internet discrimination without mandating the implementation of a digital ID."

31 posted on 11/16/2023 1:20:11 PM PST by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State Peacefully: Become a State National: https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: Aquamarine

“the FCC will need to have an underlying statute passed by Congress...”

...IF that statute is pursuant to the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended. Otherwise it is an invalid federal statute. MANY federal statutes are unconstitutional and, thus, invalid.

Remember THE U.S. CONSTITUTION is the Supreme Law of the Land.


32 posted on 11/16/2023 1:20:25 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Aquamarine

Here’s hoping when they go after Elon Musk, he will sue, sue sue.


33 posted on 11/16/2023 1:27:59 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Aquamarine

Joesph Goebbels would completely understand AND applaud what just happened!


34 posted on 11/16/2023 1:28:54 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Aquamarine
NUKE THE UTTERLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL FCC!!!!
35 posted on 11/16/2023 1:31:34 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Aquamarine

The Internet is international. The FCC can’t control what I write and post from Israel anymore than the EPA can control fishing trawlers in the Baltic Sea. There’s no basis for jurisdiction.


36 posted on 11/16/2023 1:35:29 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

100%


37 posted on 11/16/2023 1:44:00 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: subterfuge
5 unelected people decided this. If not overturned it’s all over for us.

Actually only 3 voted for it. Not long ago these people would have been strung up. Maybe that's what we need to start doing.

38 posted on 11/16/2023 1:45:03 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Aquamarine

Who asked them to decide for us?

I don’t want the government to have full control of ANYTHING.


39 posted on 11/16/2023 1:45:51 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Aquamarine

May the Lord bless the Robinson family and FReerepublic. Amen

5.56mm


40 posted on 11/16/2023 1:49:36 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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