Posted on 05/21/2015 2:35:46 PM PDT by PROCON
The Federal Election Commission, facing punishing criticism for suggesting that political activity on the Internet should be regulated, rejected talk of new rules Thursday, a victory for GOP commissioners who feared Democrats were targeting conservative sites, even the Drudge Report.
During a public meeting, Democrats on the FEC said they were responding to the public outcry in saying that no new rules are required.
Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said the FEC received 5,000 comments demanding the agency keep their hands off the Internet. In response, she proposed a resolution that directly barred Internet regulation.
"I wanted to make clear that I was listening to what people are saying out there and I think we should allay those concerns if people are concerned that we are about to do that," she said. Her resolution said: "I further move that the Commission direct [counsel] to exclude from the rulemaking any proposal affecting political activity on the Internet."
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*****”Is this the end of the “net neutrality” nightmare?”*****
Nope, they never quit, they will be back
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This is the FEC, not the FCC. The FEC is the Federal Election Commission. They’re the ones that let the Clintons and Obama get all kinds of foreign money.
In the early 70’s there were plenty of law-abiding, God-fearing citizens that insisted that abortion would never be legal - that changed in 1973.
leftists never give up or surrender
they will try to sneak it in
It’s not over until WE say it’s over. We the people had better start acting like this is our country, and demanding our representatives represent us instead of lord over us.
Well- Hecky durn! You are a burning fire, for action against the leading prow of socialist fascism.
Democrats don’t listen to members of their various victim groups - they manipulate them.
How many times have you heard them say they ‘feel the pain’ of inner city blacks - - and then NEVER EVER actually help them in any way? It’s manipulation pure and simple.
They’ll be back. They always come back.
There is also a second amendment and it has not been very effective in keeping guns in the hands of citizens, everywhere.
Hacker = cool nowadays, so saying that you Are going to regulate the Internet will piss off the crowd at 4chan, and apparently other online forum groups.
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