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May 22, 2010
Internet Freedom Challenged by Obama FCC
Internet Freedom Challenged by Obama FCC
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
House Minority Leader John Boehner recently accused the Obama Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of pursuing a "government takeover of the Internet."
Specifically, Boehner said that the FCC is engaging in an action that "amounts to a government takeover of the Internet, and yet another government takeover of a large portion of the private sector by the Obama administration."
The scheme amounts to an online “Fairness Doctrine” but it goes under another equally benign name: “network neutrality.”
Can you imagine what would happen if we were required under penalty of law to "balance" all the information on the Internet? Well that’s exactly what Barack Obama wants.
Recently, the effort suffered a major setback when the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals put up a road block to the plan. Fox News’ Phil Kerpen reported: "That effort suffered a major setback when the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals emphatically smacked down the FCC’s regulatory proposals in Comcast v. FCC."
But Obama’s not going to let the court get in his way. He’s going to "go nuclear" and defy the courts.
Kerpen continued: "President Obama and his close friend and FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, however, refuse to back down. Instead they’re escalating to the regulatory equivalent of a nuclear attack on the free-market Internet: Chairman Genachowski will announce today his intention to reclassify broadband Internet as an old-fashioned telephone system as a pretext for pervasive regulatory control."
The key phrase in Kerpen’s report is "pretext for pervasive regulatory control." That means, once they have their foot in the door — once they have control — Obama and the FCC will go about instituting their own version of the "Fairness Doctrine" on the Internet.
According Contributing Editor Neil Stevens of RedState.com:
"If the FCC is allowed to put the Internet in the U.S. under those powers, then the Obama administration will have total power to tax internet users, regulate content on internet servers, and even institute price controls on internet services."
Of course, Obama and the FCC don’t really have the authority to do what they are setting out to do, but they don’t really care. The authority over regulation actually rests with Congress, but that means that Congress must act and exert its authority to stop this plan.
Obama’s FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski may be the man who will attempt to implement this plan to take over the internet but there’s more to this story. One of the shadow organizations that is joined-at-the-hip to Genachowski and is driving this plan is a Marxist-run organization ironically called Free Press.
FOX News’ Glenn Beck has already alerted his viewers to the plot saying: "Free Press has [had] three confirmed meetings now with Obama’s FCC to work on new Internet regulations…. The FCC chairman, not to be confused with the diversity ‘czar’ – this is the chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski – chose Free Press spokeswoman, Jen Howard, to be his press secretary."
In another venue, Beck said: "The FCC is being inundated by a special interest group ironically named Free Press, whose goal it is to limit America’s free press and freedom of speech. This special interest group also claims that it’s due to special interest groups that it has become necessary for them to intervene on our behalf."
Seton Motley, contributing editor of Newsbusters.org, has also addressed what is going on behind the scenes:
"The groundwork for government information totalitarianism – favored by people like Hugo Chavez-loving FCC ‘Diversity Czar’ Mark Lloyd and Marxist ‘media reform’-outfit Free Press founder Robert McChesney – is being laid in the (p)lan being crafted by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski."
And just in case you may still doubt the motives of the folks creating this plan, consider these four past statements by the man-behind-the-curtain, Free Press’ founder Robert McChesney:
1. "Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself."
2. "There is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles."
3. "We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimalize it and perhaps even eliminate it."
4. “At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”
Wow, no need to do more than quote their own statements.
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Wild Thing's comment........
Sheesh! The never ending evil of this government continues to be perpetrated on us all. These people , Obama and his ilk can't take one breath without trying to think of something to mess with our country and our freedoms.
Net neutrality is the digital equivalent of global warming. For the left, it is all about moving their agenda forward while wrapping that message in an agenda that seems safe to the average person. Who can oppose battling global warming? Of course, global warming is a dubious claim as we now know, but it is the intentions that count - or that is what the Left wants you to think. But they really want to move forward their radical, anti-American agenda using global warming as a vehicle.
The same goes for net neutrality. Yes, we want the Internet to stay as it is now, and (apparantly) net neutrality is the term used to describe efforts to achieve this goal. But that isn't what the Left really wants here. What they want is total control of information flow on the Internet. They are losing viewers of their lousy TV programs, and no one wants to read their lousy newspapers or magazines. And they can't get a foothold in talk radio (Fairness Doctrine, anyone?). The Internet has a lot to do with the decline of the media in this country, or, more importantly, the more free-flowing information that the Internet provides has people turning a blind eye to the Left-dominated media. Hence, control is needed with the Leftist-dominated government being the ones to control it.
With these Leftist nutcases in charge, this is one issue to be kicked down the road for good. Leave the Internet alone.
Rush was saying one of the things they want to do is have pop-up ads, say on a conservative website, to show the liberal side.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
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Posted by Wild Thing at May 22, 2010 06:48 AM
Comments
And what can't be far behind is total Gun Control. That has got to be on that same agenda.
The executive branch is zooming ahead of the other two and will itself not be curtailed by the other two branches as it is written.
Posted by: Mark at May 22, 2010 11:43 AM
Impeachment has a nice ring to it!!!
Posted by: Gator at May 22, 2010 12:19 PM
Can't wait for Tuesday, November 2, 2010 patriots!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at May 22, 2010 07:38 PM
Mark, I was wondering about that. Obama is on a role and he never does just one thing, he probably has a list of what he wants destroyed and is sure getting his way on it too. VERY concerning is not even half of how scary this is.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 22, 2010 08:08 PM
Gator it sure does, oh how I wish that would happen.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 22, 2010 08:09 PM
Darth, me too, I have it marked on my calender not to have any appointments that day.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 22, 2010 08:11 PM
