[Media Freedom head Mike] Wendy called on the [FCC] Inspector General "to look into this matter [of Barack Obama's plot to seize the Internet] to ensure that the public interest was not harmed by the reported actions."
Which will have one of three outcomes: (1) Mr. Wendy's request will be ignored; (2) Mr. Wendy's request will be honored and the I-G will be swiftly terminated for doing what's supposed to be his job; or (3) Mr. Wendy's request will ostensibly be honored and the I-G's "looking into this matter" will be concluded sometime before the dawn of the twenty-second century. Whichever way that turns out, we won't know about it, because the Regime will forbid any reporting on it from being posted to its Web.
Other groups raising unshirted hell with the FCC include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Center for Individual Freedom, FreedomWorks, and the Taxpayers Protection Alliance. Which will avail us nothing, of course. But there's something to be said for exercising one's First Amendment rights to the greatest extent possible in the short time we still retain them, I always say.
-Me, four months ago.
Control over the flow of information is what is at stake. The ever-expanding powers of the ruling elite in control of the federal government, like any centralized system seeking to increase its tyranny, knows that to control their opposition, they must be able to control the flow, and content, of information. The FCC, a part of the Obama administration executive branch, is seeking to regulate the internet, micromanage service associated with the internet marketplace, and intrude upon the functioning of internet service providers. The move is an attempt to control information, and tax internet use, and they are attempting to do this without the constitutional authority to do so in the first place, and with the claim that it is all for the common good.
-Mr. Gibbs, a week ago
[GOP] FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, today:
[Senator Mike] Lee has called the regulation a government takeover of the internet and says it amounts to a “a massive tax increase on the middle class, being passed in the dead of night without the American public really being made aware of what is going on.” And when Lee says that the American public isn’t aware of what’s going on, that is in no way hyperbole. FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has emerged as a hero for those opposed to the regulation because Pai has been taking to the airwaves decrying the fact that the public is not allowed to see 332 pages of proposed internet regulation before they are potentially passed. Pai’s crusade to make the proposed regulations public is the theme of the the latest ad from Protect Internet Freedom.
Congress should be involved in stopping the Executive Branch's legislating? The hell you say!
If you follow this "net neutrality" thread back far enough - not an easy task since it's flown consistently under the radar of an Obamedia that favors it (effectively eliminating the conservative side of the blogosphere) and thus has embargoed any even rudimentary, much less in-depth, coverage of it - you'll rediscover that this scheme died in the last Democrat Congress, and has less than zero chance of being passed by the current GOP majorities. Hence The One's trademark "We can't wait/If Congress won't act, I will/I've got a pen and a phone" SOP that has forced cap and trade, amnesty, federal ObamaCare subsidies, and pretty much any other Agenda item he couldn't get enacted legally and constitutionally despotically down our throats. The "ideological cleansing" of the Internet is just the next plot in line.
And we've only got a week of Internet freedom left, and then it's gone forever.
Doesn't Congress have to run out of plates for all this first-responding at some point?
Exit question: Anybody seen that FCC Inspector-General lately? Like, on a missing persons list?
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