Internet access is not a “civil right”
Meet the new Internet traffic cops
Internet access is not a “civil right”
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
When bureaucrats talk about increasing your “access” to X, Y, or Z, what they’re really talking about is increasing their control over your lives exponentially. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly-approved government plan to “increase” Internet “access.” Call it Webcare.
By a vote of 3-2, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday adopted a controversial scheme to ensure “net neutrality” by turning unaccountable Democrat appointees into meddling online traffic cops. The panel will devise convoluted rules governing Internet service providers, bandwidth use, content, prices, and even disclosure details on Internet speeds. The “neutrality” is brazenly undermined by preferential treatment toward wireless broadband networks. Moreover, the FCC’s scheme is widely opposed by Congress – and has already been rejected once in the courts. Demonized industry critics have warned that the regulations will stifle innovation and result in less access, not more.
Sound familiar?
The parallels with health care are striking. The architects of Obamacare promised to provide Americans more access to health insurance – and cast their agenda as a fundamental universal entitlement. In fact, it was a pretext for creating a gargantuan federal bureaucracy with the power to tax, redistribute, and regulate
the private health insurance market to death – and replace it with a centrally-planned government system overseen by politically-driven code enforcers dictating everything from annual coverage limits, to administrative expenditures, to the make-up of the medical workforce. The costly, onerous, and selectively-applied law has resulted in less access, not more.
Undaunted promoters of Obama FCC chairman Julius Genachowski’s “open Internet” plan to expand regulatory authority over the Internet have couched their online power grab in the rhetoric of civil rights. On Monday, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps proclaimed: “Universal access to broadband needs to be seen as a civil right…[though] not many people have talked about it that way.” Opposing the government Internet takeover blueprint, in other words, is tantamount to supporting segregation. Cunning propaganda, that.
“Broadband is becoming a basic necessity,” civil rights activist Benjamin Hooks added. And earlier this month, fellow FCC panelist Mignon Clyburn, daughter of Congressional Black Caucus leader and Number Three House Democrat James Clyburn of South Carolina, declared that free (read: taxpayer-subsidized) access to the Internet is not only a civil right for every “nappy-headed child” in America, but essential to their self-esteem. Every minority child, she said, “deserves to be not only connected, but to be proud of who he or she is.”
Calling them “nappy-headed” is a rather questionable way of boosting their pride, but never mind that.
Face it: A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. Once again, Democrats are using children as human shields who provide useful cover for not-so-noble political goals.
The “net neutrality” mob – funded by billionaire George Soros and other left-wing think tanks and non-profits — has openly advertised its radical, speech-squelching agenda to crusade for “media justice.” Social justice is the redistribution of wealth and economic “rights.” Media justice is the redistribution of speech and First Amendment rights. The meetings of the universal broadband set are littered with Marxist-tinged rants about “disenfranchisement” and “empowerment.” They’ve targeted conservative opponents on talk radio, cable TV, and on the web as purveyors of “hate” who need to be managed or censored. Democrat FCC panelists’ have dutifully echoed their concerns about concentration of corporate media power. As the Ford Foundation-funded Media Justice Fund, which lobbied for universal broadband, put it: This is a movement “grounded in the belief that social and economic justice will not be realized without the equitable redistribution and control of media and communication technologies.”
For progressives who cloak their ambitions in the mantle of “fairness,” it’s all about control. It’s always about control.
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The camel has his nose in the tent!!!!
I really, really, hope they keep this up. 2012 will be an even bigger “shellacking” for the Democrats. The American people are seeing that they continue to be totally clueless.
these dems and rinos are stomping all over my last frayed nerve…there better be a massive unwinding of this shizzle starting in January.
I am so sick of all this $hi*…..
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The FCC was necessary at the beginning of the radio age to provide rational use of radio, TV, and communications signals from a technical standpoint. To eliminate interference problems and to standardize systems from an engineering standpoint.
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But when they want to butt in on non radiated signals over cable TV networks, phone lines, and fiber optic systems–they are out of their territory except at the points where these signals are radiated via microwave or radio links.
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And the only content arguments that make sense are those dealing with violating free speech laws, national security laws, or actual hate crime laws.
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The FCC is trying to shut down conservative political dissent with phony “fairness” C**P that may violate actual free speech rights. And as with many of Comrade Obama’s (PBUH) regime’s actions–if it can’t be done through Congress–just use dictatorial fiat and “ram it through”. Despite a court’s ruling that it is unconstitutional. Deja Vu all over again–and still–and yet.
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John Bibb
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No matter what we do,or how many phone calls we make,these pricks just keep doing whatever they want..
Hey! Maybe they can get Google to be the preferred search engine provider.
The Republican leadership must have a communications strategy that constantly shines a light on the Marxist anti-Constitutional nature of Democrats’ actions. Eventually some of it will filter into the public square – despite the best efforts of the Soros media to repress it.
the government through congress or any of it’s agencies and departments cannot create and give rights, the constitution beat them to it.
That’s about it. And it crosses party lines. With TARP and the bailouts we did everything but set the rotunda on fire, but they just ignored us.
Apparently we still haven’t sent enough of them packing yet.
I don’t care how much use Obummer makes of his veto pen. The GOP needs to do the right thing. Every bill for the next 3 months should say:
XXX is hereby repealed.
YYY is hereby repealed.
ZZZ is hereby repealed.
Etc.
Let the American people see who wants to control their lives, and who wants to allow them to live their own lives.
That’s what should happen, but it won’t. We still have RINOs running the GOP.
No. We haven’t. The Senate is the worst because it takes 6 years to send one packing. 6 more years of the likes of McCain and his cohorts.
We’ve only completed Phase 1.
Phase 2 occurs in 2012. Then change (the good kind) can begin.
Purge the radicals…before it is too late!
January cannot come fast enough!!! These MORONS are totally out of control!!! Excuse my faux pas, calling them MORONS is an insult to MORONS!!! They have taken over HEALTH CARE, taken over the AUTO INDUSTRY, control the BANKS, taken control of STUDENT LOANS, and don’t forget the INSURANCE and the CREDIT CARD industry!!! Has their appetite for POWER no end in sight??? One of the last bastions of CAPITALISM in the “FREE WORLD”, and JULIUS SEIZURE wants to “FIX IT”!!! Hey, JULIE BABY, it ain’t broke!!! C’mon JANUARY, and stop with the compromise, and forget about the reaching across the aisle… Oh, and give about as much “BI-PARTISAN” as you got for the last two years… And last, my CHRISTMAS WISH for this year??? Some COJONES for the GOP in the coming two years!!! PLEASE???
Either the Texas senators are not answering phones or they are besieged with calls.
Stop everything. Now. We just paid over 10,000 first responders with a $712 million settlement on November 22 and now we are talking about another $6.2 BILLION????
Where is the balance on reporting what is going on here? Even Fox is going all touchy feely over it.
And isn’t there a program giving away cell phones already? $2 trillion additional debt in one year? Somebody needs to go to jail.
The communists are trying to convince people that EVERYTHING is a civil right. That way, government has an excuse to regulate EVERYTHING.
We’ve got to remove from government ALL of the progressives, whether they wear an R or a D jersey.
The GOP need to understand that you don’t play by the Marquess of Queensbury rules when you’re in a WWF cage-match. You can’t play nice with an opponent that knows no restraints.
The GOP and the DNC are two divisions under the same ownership. The GOP will not fight the Democrats, only conservatives.
It’s like the demonuts and rino’s made a list at the beginning of 2009, and started going down that list, one item at a time. They are getting close to the bottom (I hope) of the list – and will not stop. Why should they? They have run amock unfettered for quite awhile. What’s to stop them?
That list is full of all the socialist/feely-goody items that will take this country far to the left, then over the cliff. STOP IT!!!!
I keep having a nagging feeling that 2012 may be too late. At least it can’t come quickly enough.
Danman you couldn’t be more correct. The taxpayers have sent 1/2 a trillion dollars to NYC for the 9-11 attack. Given $5million bucks to each of the 3000 families, and 20 billion to rebuild the site, that still leaves 465 billion dollars left unaccounted for. That is a hell of a lot of money when the healthcare of the first responders, which we taxpayers already pay for or do the NYPD and NYFD not have taxpayer provided healthcare insurance, is only seeking 6 billion dollars. Me thinks this smells like the pigford settlement for the gubmint unions of NY, another Dem constituency sucking off the hind teat of taxpayers. I do believe these unions have retirement pensions, healthcare plans, and overtime compensation plans which not only netted them a mint during the cleanup, but are the envy of every nongubmint employee in the U.S.
Actually we need to purge all of them. The GOP is no better than the Dems, they are all Ruling Class versus the angry peons.
For “
ProgOPPressives”,the issue is never the issue;
the issue is always the revolution.
Here is a cartoon from Beeler on the fcc access. Somehow we have just to stop bho and team! I would like to think the new dc bunch will stop this madness, but I won’t hold my breath.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/nate-beelers-toons/2010/12/ramming-speed
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Got to give credit where credit is due… these progressive bastards are relentless! If only the GOP were equally so.
Everything is race. That is why Obama is so eager for the Republicans to try and repeal the healthcare bill. You can write the O-rating yourself: “Millions of innocent black and brown babies are going to be denied healthcare because of the evil white-racist republicans . . .” Potent in the 2012 elections? I would think so.
The rule of democrat politics is that they always win, win or lose. So they always go for the max.
Still, it might sound odd to yell out in public “”The high-tech Klan is riding again, brothers! It is just like Selma to deny black people their high-speed internet connections and choice of providers, free installation and upgrades, not to mention technical support . . .
You’re all missing the point of this: broadband providers enjoy monopoly status through the public access rights granted by cities, counties, etc. As such they function as utilities and can be regulated as such. Telling them that they can’t charge different fees for access is a utility regulation, consistent with the way that telephones operate. What amazes me is how myopic the right is on this…most of these companies are left oriented; so whose speech do they think is going to get slowed down by broadband firms?
A truly neutral net speed opportunity is what ensures real freedom of speech and I fail to understand how this can be seen as a lefty move…hell, the NRA is behind it too!
Now, the DHS seizure of websites…that’s an intrusion and the idea that any website can be shut down without a court order should scare the crap out of everyone. But not neutrality.
Dear Leader and his cretinous mob can no longer use congress to impose his sovereign control on our behavior, so they will just use administration agencies. FCC, EPA, DOPE (Department of Progressive Education) etc. I can’t decide if these people are swine or vermin. They are slimy putrid piles of
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Power, it is always about power
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Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
should be a convenience store,
NOT a government agency.
If the poor, hungry, whatever race, man or woman wants to surf the internet, may I suggest checking out their local public library. Free wifi and computers to use.
The problem is that these indivduals would have to know how to read, other than logging onto porn sites that I see happening frequently in the Memphis public libraries.
GSP
“Merry Christmas”
yep cheapseat, I told Cornyn several days ago this looks like Pigford all over again. I did finally get through today and that is the problem they have with it. No number of claimants, no description of what qualifies for compensation, etc. Just another open checkbook.
My bet is that just like almost every other public pension plan in America, the NYFD and NYPD plan is way underfunded and this will tidy them over for awhile.
Senators, please stop this.
It won’t be too late if the R’s keep the House (highly probable according to the betting right now) and increase the number of conservatives there, and if they take the Senate (also highly probable according to the betting right now) and increase the percentage of conservative R’s there, and if we can remove the veto pen by electing any R for President (the weakest link, with the betting now being Obama will hold on).
However, I have the same bad feeling about it. All, and I do mean all, of the Forces of Darkness (collectivism) will be in 100% Battle Mode to defend the Presidency and thereby permanently secure Obamacare.
You think you saw the MSM hawking shamelessly for Obama and brazenly smearing the R’s 24/7 in 2008? You ain’t seen nothin,’ yet.
The battle in 2012 is going to be the most ferocious since 1860, and the stakes are just as high.
Just how does broadband increase a minority child’s self esteem? Since most of them are born into single-parent homes, how about we provide them with a dad first?
Bigboy-
The NRA is a strawman arguement, and even if they’re in favor of it still doesn’t make it right.
The internet hasn’t been regulated at all since its inception around 1996/97 and is a GREAT example of the freemarket making a product, surviving the downturn in the economy (dot.com busts) and coming back stronger than ever.
Case in point: How many of us have to had to pay to get an email address that we can access from almost anywhere around the world?
I know I haven’t, and I have had the same yahoo address since ’97. Kept up with family and friends while deployed using it and it was a great invention that I would rank up with the wheel or the discovery of fire.
The internet thrived because of the lack of government interference, and not because of it. All of this brought to you compliments of American capitalism at its finest.
GSP
Face it: A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Aha! Typical of rightwingers on a rightwing blog to promote the oppressive, wife beating/raping patriarchy!
Male children should be raised in female dominated households so they don’t develop cruel and mean ideas about how men should treat women.
Ignore those people who tell you male children who are raised without fathers are more likely to develop pathologies including wife beating. That obviously cannot be true.
Anyway, even if it is true, then it’s just more proof people shouldn’t get married. No marriage = no wife beating!
Gunslinger is right to point out how the net represents a real triumph of capitalism; but that triumph could only have occurred on a neutral infrastructure. Had one or two of the earlier players been able to promote certain kinds of content (based on ability to pay), we’d all still be using AoL services…with no choice.
I’m all for letting broadband providers charge what’s reasonable for the continual build out of their networks and I agree that exempting wireless is BS…but neutrality isn’t the enemy and firms that are granted monopoly or highly favored positions through public access privilege through land use or radio license issuance can’t suddenly claim the right to run their businesses without interference from regulation. The marketplace doesn’t work when there’s no real competition, and people really can’t live without the web.
Now if someone would just create a neutral search engine and put Google out of business.
The FCC comission doesn’t have this power and they have already been slapped by a Judge for the last time they tried to “fix” the internet. They had “net neutrality” on their web site for public comments for months–very very very few were in favor. It was obvious from the comments that there was no need for this intrusion. They did it anyway. The new Congress can fire them–unfund the entire FCC. It is an antiquated, self justifying bureaucratic regulatory department that can be turned over to the States, if it is at all necessary.
Contract your new Representatives and tell them to go after these jerks–they are looking for issues to champion. Freedom of Speech is a good reason. It IS protected by the Constitution.
What we are season is the beginning of the 2011 -2012 battle. Obama will ignore Congress, and just create Executive rules. We are in the process of following in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez.
If the intent of this law was to make sure that media giants like Comca$t can’t restrict your access to certain types of content (something Comca$t has previously done), I could get behind that. But it surely won’t be that simple.
On December 22nd, 2010 at 11:32 am, Thors_Hammer said:
The Tea Party is equally relentless. Americans have awakened to the damage that Progressives have done to this country over the last century.
The tide is turning. Look at how many states Obama won in 2008 that have since elected either a Republican Senator or Republican Governor…
Illinois 2008 Obama / 2010 Republican Senator
Iowa 2008 Obama / 2010 Republican Senator
Massachusetts 2008 Obama / 2009 Republican Senator
New Jersey 2008 Obama / 2009 Republican Governor
Ohio 2008 Obama / 2010 Republican Senator
Florida 2008 Obama / 2010 Republican Senator
Virginia 2008 Obama / 2009 Republican Governor
North Carolina 2008 Obama / 2010 Republican Senator
Wisconsin 2008 Obama / 2010 Republican Senator
Indiana 2008 Obama / 2010 Republican Senator
Pennsylvania 2008 Obama / 2010 Republican Senator
New Hampshire 2008 Obama / 2010 Republican Senator
That’s 12 states that went for Obama in 2008 and have since elected a Republican in a state-wide election. This isn’t necessarily even a complete list, and doesn’t include two very questionable 2010 races where an election may have been stolen from a Republican and handed to a Democrat in Nevada and Washington state.
Now, will all of those newly-elected Republicans be true conservatives? Sadly, no. It only takes one look at Scott Brown to see that. But the organizing of “We the People” who rose up to elect those Republicans has not gone away. We will continue to fight for conservative values and Constitutional government.
Progressives have been pursuing their objectives for over a century. They’ve achieved a lot of their objectives over the last 4 years of Democratic control of the Congress, but not all (no public option, for example, and no new Porkulous). And they’ve finally met their match in an awakened conservative America. It may take a few more election cycles to get to the level of power that we need to truly start undoing the damage that Progressives have done over the last century. But, imagine a Washington, D.C. where God-honoring conservatives have more than 2/3 majorities in both houses and also have the Presidency and Vice-Presidency/Presidency of the Senate, as well as control of the executive and legislative branches in more than 3/4 of the states.
Imagine what we could do at that point… repeal the 16th and 17th amendments. Institute the Fair Tax. Eliminate unconstitutional departments like the Department of Education. End progressive regulations written by the EPA and FCC.
… and more …
I know that’s a big goal, but 2010 made great progress in that direction.
The American dream is still alive, and we shall overcome. Men and women of God will humble themselves, fast, and pray. And we will defeat the godless Marxists.
I know your mom told you not to “judge a book by its cover” but have a little winter solstice holiday fun. Go back to the picture and study the faces and then guess who voted for this mess and who voted against it. Winners will receive one winter solstice holiday portrait in brilliant, naked x-ray of you and the wife and kiddies complements of your nearest TSA photo kiosk. No cheating now, just judge on the relative goofiness of the faces!
Whenever the government interferes with the market it always reduces competition.
This is sometimes a good thing, such as requirements for food labeling, but don’t kid yourself that food labeling does not decrease competition. Of course it does.
Onerous monopolies (there can be ‘good’ monopolies for a time) come into existence in the first place because the government has created rules that have made it too difficult for new competitors to enter the fray.
Who do you think effectively ‘lobbies’ (bribes) the government to interfere in the first place?
If it is granted by cities and counties, it is not a monopoly. It is a monopoly if granted by the federal government. Remember with the Left, Up is down, so get because the label is “neutrality”, does not mean this has anything to do with neutrality. It is all about centralization of POWER.
Unfortunately this is where you lose many of us. The FairTax is not Fair to those who have retired or are about to retire. In fact it shifts the tax burden to them once again (as they have been paying income tax for 40 to 50 years).
This is one of the consequences of Big Government. Bureaucrats will always try to expand their power, while pretending it is for everyone’s good. When government has a hundred thousand departments and a million bureaucrats, it’s impossible to keep up with every abuse and attack on freedom.
If there was no FCC, there would be one less attack to fight. And that’s a good place to start. Get rid of the FCC!
Thank God that Noah did not require federal oversight for the Ark.
The Rs will get beat down any time they try to repeal or defund something during 2011. Between Reid and Pelosi and the MSM the R’s cajones and spine will be nowhere to be found. It is already happening.
Unless we put into place those tea party people who have a fresh set of steel balls.
HeWhoWonOne and the politburo shall provide a Big Brother to watch over us all. Self Esteem shall come from serving the collective. Work Rehabilitation and Re-education shall be provided to such who do not feel the correct state mandated Self Esteem.
Watch
Protect
Inform
You will be judged politically
Big Brother is Watching
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Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
should be a convenience store,
NOT a government agency.
….but not Steele’s balls.
Beware of Geeks bearing gifts.
On December 22nd, 2010 at 12:24 pm, Mister P said:
I beg to differ. Have you read the Fair Tax FAQ? Specifically, these 3 Q&A:
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq_answers#13
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq_answers#15
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq_answers#16
I use scroogle with a “-com” after the subject, it seems to help.
I have increased my internet access on my own, without any government help.
I have gone from a Puke-ard Bell 4GB 100MHz. 14,400 modem running Windows 95 to what I now have, which includes DSL that is faster than what my current puter can handle.
Don’t forget that the U.S. Government saved us all by breaking up the monopoly of Bell Telephone.
Sounds a bit like the EPA’s actions recently.
We need to get these puppet agencies under control or defunded. Their purposes are being abused. In particular, being abused by the Obama White House.
And you can bet your last dollar that part of the plan for this is to be able to control content on the internet. Meaning….. The Fairness Doctrine for the internet.
They will use this to curtail sites like this. Bet on it.
The Fair Tax is a fraud:
http://search.mises.org/search?q=the%20fair%20tax&site=default_collection
These folks know economics.
Constitutionally, no agency has any authority to make laws. In fact, these agencies themselves, aren’t Constitutional. Check Article 1 Section 8.
Yes it is cunning. I have no interest or intention of paying for every welfare recipient’s internet access. Because that’s another angle based on what they are saying.
Yes, I have read it, but I do not believe it. First of all, it is all speculation. Secondly a states will also need to switch to a sales tax, thus rather than 23 percent, it will go to 33 percent or more. It will have to be very broad based to keep it that low, so rent and sale of one’s house will have to be included. It will not reduce prices but it will increase prices because of the tax, and the switch will have a devastating effect on the economy as people will cut spending rather than pay that tax. Also this whole pre-tax idea creates a huge bureaucracy. A better idea in my opinion is the flat tax or a layered flat tax, much as the commission suggested. Have 2 or 3 tiers and eliminate all tax credits and deductions.
What we have here is despotism to the nth degree with ideologically corrupted institutes that distribute the lion’s share of information providing cover to the statists-
This is a Chavez type move. De-fund the FCC before it is too late.
The efforts of people that espouse this belief needs to be squashed. They are marxist radicals. They are our enemy.
Orwell was a prophet.
Did you hear where he took credit for all of the R wins in 2010?
He didn’t win $hit. He was out sell his book on the RNC dime.
I’m putting a statue of him on my front lawn. Not an idol, just a statue…
Come to think of it – I may put it on a sign and stick it in front of Obama’s old condo so when the Prez drives by…
By “IT”, I meant Hangfire’s comment.
If Michelle Bachmann’s seat gets redistricted away, she might make a fine RNC chair. OK, Chairman – she’s incredibly feminine but she seems to have the balls the R males lack. BTW, even Leno did a bit on this a week ago. He had his “kick-a$$ women” (Pelosi, Hillary and Bachmann) then he said, “but look at the men” and had the guys sobbing and blubbering.
10,000?? The terrorists couldn’t do better if they infected us with Anthrax! Did all these “First Responders” come down with the same aliments or does even just being scratched up while picking through metal apply?? Look, I am sympathetic, but this First Responders benefit boggles me; first, aren’t any civil servants already well covered and if not, it should be a “simple” matter of pumping those benefits aptly. Why the extras? But how is society obliged to give life med to anyone who jumps into a disaster situation? Some/alot tried jumping into this 911 benefits thing with the jet crash in the Rockways only weeks after 911 — just for whiffing smoke at the crash site! Yet around two decades ago a jet crashed near here in the marsh immediately north of JFK airport’s runway and hundreds of cars on the adjunct expressway stopped to run out check out the survivors in all the debris and filthy rat-infested swamp water and jet fuel and I don’t recall ANY “first responder” back then crying for the airlines or government for med support as a right. As far as I know such hardly happened proir 911. Will it be that if there’s a train or plane crash or building or bridge bombing, just popping up as a “Good Samaritan” entitles you free life med instead of a Purple Heart? Again, I’m trying not to sound callous, but this can be SOOOO abused! The terrorist don’t need to bomb or poison us! They’re doing well enough bankrupting us into obvilion!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I certainly hope our no label moderate middle of the roaders look at the last 2 years and see just how much damage the wrong choices can cause. The gubmint spent an additional 2 trillion dollars of debt this year, if the gubmint had to account for it’s spending the way all those evil businesses account, so 2010 needs every man woman and child in the new census count to send in $6,666.66 just to cover this years overspending. Family of 4 equals 26,664 dollars.
This is a fascist takeover of the internet in the US. I am appalled.
Nearing the end of my patience with these people. The gubmint will now say who can be on the net, and who cannot – or will not. Hate speech, as determined by bureaucrats/fascists will now be squelched.
Be careful what you say, now. Before, it was social pressure to be PC. Now, it is a governmental power, established by authoritarian fiat, requiring you to speak the correct way.
Is that a chill wind I feel?
Realizing that congress may have some say in this, I am not at all comforted that it isn’t yet in effect. The FCC directors deserve prison.
Thanks for the link. I first read Von Mises in 1971. He was right all along, and the march over the financial cliff is proving it. The articles show the FairTax as just being another convenient way to redistribute wealth. There is a reason not even Ron Paul will favor any broad-based tax.
What we need to do instead is reduce and limit the size and scope of government. What is fair is the market place. We need to remember that mediocrity hates fairness.
Why then have the progressive liberals in this country pushed so hard to have internet access in “every classroom” in the nation?
One one answer folks. The intention was to have universal access to all those little brains of mush, in order to exploit them using liberal, anti-capitalist, anti-American messages of propaganda.
They will now be able to control, totally, what makes it into the classroom. This must be overturned, and the FCC disbanded.
How many power grabs must we endure before we take action against these statists?
Well every child in America should hear about MCI and Michael Milkin.
Sorry, I’ve already run out of fingers and toes to keep counting.
The time for action is now!
That ridiculous woman is named after a steak?
Waiting for the panty-buncher bureaucrats in DC to wrap their busybodies around this one:
The International Space Station is not handicap accessible. Waiting to see them build a wheelchair ramp up to the place.
On December 22nd, 2010 at 1:08 pm, Hangfire said:
I see him more as a Paul Revere.
Orwell had first-hand experience with what the Marxists did, both in Spain and in England.
The publisher that was originally supporsed to publish Animal Farm reversed its decision. That is believed to be due to the influence of Peter Smollett, who worked at the Ministry of Information and was later disclosed to be a Soviet agent.
Orwell had seen first-hand what the Marxists could and did do, and he was trying to warn others. So, I wouldn’t consider him a “prophet” as much as a “whistle-blower”. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, let them see and hear.
GOP caves again…9/11 responders and their attornies get $4.3 billion.
If any of us tried an “end around” like this on a Federal Judge we’d be in jail for contempt of court. Why aren’t 3 members of the FCC board on their way to jail right now?
“Caves” would imply they had other plans…
Someone say free access if a gay right so we can get chappy involved and get his opinion. Seems his side keeps trying to take control of more and more. I only see him post when someone says “gay”. Reminds me of Rusty.
Oh, and, redistribution does not work. Socialist countries – all of them – still have slums. I suppose if the people who live in slums had free wifi access, they would be better for it.
This so called net nutrality is just another way to grab more power. First it will start with regulating broadband speeds, then it will be regulating content. In the end, this administration hopes to control the last bastion of honest and free speech…the blogosphere. The administration understands that more and more people are getting their information from the new media; therefore it is a danger to them and their plans. If they can control internet content then they can turn it into what the MSM is today…another mouthpiece for the “enlightened” elitists.
Well, bless their little hearts! (Sounds of gagging!)
The 9/11 First Responders Health Security Act (or whatever they are going to call it) is what caring Americans see…everyone else will see it as, “Hey look, y’all! Another cash cow money grab slush fund for us to pillage! Yea!”
Now, let me guess…it will have no upper limit to funding (we all know that down the road, it will be “deemed” to be underfunded, so more money will be added to it). And, it will be tasked by some bright union type to include only union workers, including future union workers who were never involved in the cleanup of the WTC.
Way to go RINO’s…duped once again by the smartest (?) people in the country, who don’t know their a$$es from a hole in the ground, nor do they care. That money will be funding future Democrat Party campaigns. Count on it!
Another thing worth noting. One of the companies that is showing major growth is Blizzard entertainment. They are a video game manufacture of the online gaming success story World of Warcraft. There are aproximately 13 million active accounts (paying monthly subscripition fees) currently in use for the game. The game recently released a new content expansion that saw more than 3 million copies sold in the first 24 hours.
Whether or not you like video games is not the point. The point is that this is a growing market that is and will continue to be creating new jobs. If the “net neutrality” starts setting pricing on internet usage (some reports talk about hourly rates being brought back) it could severly damage that industry leading to yet another market that this administration destroys.
Where is my Grandfather’s money for being exposed to radiation at Bikini Atoll and Eniwetok?
Where is my Father’s money for hearing loss due to engine noise at missile sites and airbases?
Where is my Great-uncle’s money for malaria contracted in the Canal Zone?
Are they going to assign a lawyer to everyone throughout the ages that has made a sacrifice in the normal course of their duties?
A–holes! We don’t want your lawyers or your stinking money. We want to be left alone.
I contend that legal advice and accounting/tax advice are more important civil rights because of the trail lawyers and a litigious society and the cumbersome IRS regulations.
Say – why not regulate lawyers and accountants?????
Is that a simple misspelling or a Freudian petticoat?
On December 22, 2010 at 10:29 am, letget said:
On December 22, 2010 at 10:29 am, letget said:
Oops…sorry!
I don’t believe it is a civil right, but I see broadband today like the interstate highway system. I believe that high speed broadband by government is a good role for the government to play.
I don’t think they should be the only player because we need a choice. But I think expanding broadband access from sea to sea would be beneficial for generations.
Make sure it is the latest and greatest technology. Make sure there are alternative ways of connecting. But make sure there is wireless broadband everywhere in America so anyone can be online with the device they choose.
AND Schools would save a TON of money on textbooks if they issued everyone an e-reader and put the textbooks on there. No more broken backs from too full backpacks. No more paying for printing books you only need for a semester. . . and they could be downloaded from the government’s broadband high speed network.
Heh! Yet not too long ago another civil servant said nappie-heads are entitled to computers?
Since progressives can’t win on the idea playing field, they have found it necessary to grab control over the message delivery system. The problem is that no matter how the dress up their ideas and cover them with lies, the truth will come back to expose them.
Funny how everything like this always boils down to one of two things:
A) censoring conservatives
B) forcing taxpayers to supply welfare parasites with things they don’t deserve to have.
I see from some of your linkage that there are people who think that this is conspiracy mongering. What do those people think of Health and Human Services buying the search term “Obamacare” from Google, so as better to lead one away from critics and toward propagandists?
Let’s use the market. The market is unfair.
Does anyone think the feds are interested in curbing Google’s hand-in-glove collaboration? Didn’t think so. Nice protection racket.
To the well-meqaning, but misguided folks who are espousing “neutrality” I say this: federally enforced net neutrality is not about actually ensuring true neutrality. That is just a mask. The true goal is control. It always is.