Sec. 5.6. The Federal Communications Commission performs such functions as are required by law, including: (a) with respect to all entities licensed or regulated by the Federal Communications Commission: the extension, discontinuance, or reduction of common carrier facilities or services; the control of common carrier rates, charges, practices, and classifications; the construction, authorization, activation, deactivation, or closing of radio stations, services, and facilities; the assignment of radio frequencies to Federal Communications Commission licensees; the investigation of violations of pertinent law; and the assessment of communications service provider emergency needs and resources; and ...
Yikes!!!
So this sez the king can take over all communications over the air and Internet upon declaration of an emergency.
This is in line with all the other emergency powers Homeland inSecurity has given itself to enact upon a president’s dictate of National emergency. Total control is total control and Obammycommies have all the bases covered.
They don’t know anything about America-America, history, economics or the constitution but they are experts in this area of totaltarianism. However, these clowns could never make trains run on time even if Dear Reader issues an EO about it. They’ll starve you to death, too, so be prepared!
"(b) supporting the continuous operation and restoration of critical communications systems and services by assisting the Secretary of Homeland Security with infrastructure damage assessment and restoration, and by providing the Secretary of Homeland Security with information collected by the Federal Communications Commission on communications infrastructure, service outages, and restoration, as appropriate."
I may not be reading this correctly, but your excerpt and mine read like a takeover of existing forms of communication, and replacing it with the government.