Well....shit...
FCC Passes Net Neutrality Rules in Victory for Open-Internet Activists
I'm just saying I'm skeptical is all. I think a healthy dose of cynicism would be beneficial. As far as I know, most people didn't second guess the PATRIOT act but look how that turned out.
Like good old Nancy Pelosi once said, "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it". And as far as I know the actual 300+ page document has yet to be made public and analyzed by the EFF.
Internet, RIP?
by Ron Paul
Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a non-elected federal government agency, voted three-to-two to reclassify broadband Internet as a common carrier service under Title II of the Communications Act. This means that – without the vote of Congress, the peoples’ branch of government – a federal agency now claims the power to regulate the Internet. I am surprised that even among civil liberties groups some claim the federal government increasing regulation of the Internet somehow increases our freedom and liberty.
The truth is very different. The adoption of these FCC rules on the Internet represents the largest regulatory power grab in recent history. The FCC’s newly adopted rule takes the most dynamic means of communication and imposes the regulatory structure designed for public utilities. Federal regulation could also open the door to de facto censorship of ideas perceived as threatening to the political class – ideas like the troops should be brought home, the PATRIOT Act should be repealed, military spending and corporate welfare should be cut, and the Federal Reserve should be audited and ended.
The one bright spot in this otherwise disastrous move is that federal regulations making it more difficult to use the Internet will cause more Americans to join our movement for liberty, peace, and prosperity. The federal government should keep its hands off of the Internet!
There was a time that any and all information we got was from the three big networks. We had no idea if it was true or real or what, we just trusted them. That has changed, yes some of it is because of Fox, but most of it is now because of the internet. Do you think any of us would know that Obama was raised and influenced by Marxist and Communist if not for the internet? The Dems lost big in 2010 and even bigger in 2014, and a lot of that is because of information and connections we all make over the good ole world wide web. That is what this is all about. Nothing more then control of what we can see and hear and learn for ourselves. Government control of national healthcare, now of the internet. Fundamental Transformation to the biggest possible extent. Kinda makes one wonder about the stories about FEMA camps being true after all.
if not for the internet we wouldn't know that global warming is a hoax or that jet fuel can't melt steel beams
So the FCC won't let me be or let me be me so let me see
they tried to shut me down on MTV but it feels so empty without me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVkUvmDQ3HY
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