Should Government Control the Internet? Democrats Say Yes
Here it comes. The “chilling” effect…
We’ve warned about Obama’s ‘diversity’ czar Marc Lloyd who praised Hugo Chavez’s ‘revolution’ and his subsequent seizing of the airwaves. Now the liberal fascists in America are mulling over how to poise themselves to take over the internet. If this is allowed to happen, it would be the beginning of the end of grassroots organizing and free speech.
Marc Lloyd and Cass Sunstein want government to take control over the media.
From BigGovernment.com
Democrats Back FCC in Anticipated Efforts to Regulate Broadband
In the wake of the Court of Appeals judgment last week that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lacks sufficient authority to regulate broadband services, senior congressional Democrats are reaffirming their support for alternative methods of executing what some critics charge would be a de facto government takeover of the internet.
Rep. Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts and co-author of the House’s Internet Freedom Preservation Act, said the FCC should “take any actions necessary to ensure that consumers and competition are protected on the internet,” and offered to “continue to work with my colleagues in Congress to provide the Commission any additional authority it may need to ensure the openness of the Internet for consumers, innovators and investors.”
Markey, like FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, is a backer of net neutrality, a policy that would inadvertently be instituted were the FCC to reclassify broadband services under existing rules relating to telephone services, and directly instituted were his bill passed and signed into law.
Fellow Massachusetts Democrat Sen. John Kerry, meanwhile, insisted that while it is within the authority of the FCC to reclassify broadband he is not advocating such aggressive action.
“I am not advocating that the FCC reclassify broadband services as a result of this decision,” Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said. “But I absolutely believe they maintain that legal authority and it would be entirely consistent with the history of communications laws in our country if they did.”
Kerry went on to say that Congress did not intend for “cable and telephone broadband internet service providers to fall outside of the authority of the FCC,” and therefore that he would be willing to work with “all interested parties” on the construction of “a new legal and regulatory framework for broadband, especially if reclassifying broadband as a telecommunications service proves too difficult to administer.”
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