Net neutrality? The FCC commissioner himself, Ajit Pai,
wrote, “The order imposes intrusive government regulations that won’t work to
solve a problem that doesn’t exist using legal authority the FCC doesn’t have.”
Well
said, sir.
This is
simply another power grab by an insatiable federal government drunk on its own
success at cowing and controlling the people… and thereby trashing the Constitution
like a Frat house on Friday night.
As
always, statists couch their arguments for usurping more and more power from
the people in terms of wanting to protect the people from those who (they say)
have power…namely evil corporations headed by white males. Or, in this case,
Internet service providers, which are, oddly enough, not exactly bastions of
conservatism.
Of
course, in the real world, those of us who truly cherish free and open
communication have a great deal more to fear from the federal government than
we do from our ISP’s.
In
recent years, leftists in Washington have tried to use the FCC to destroy
conservative talk radio (“the Fairness Doctrine”; I always loved that one…no
fairness, all Doctrine). They’ve used the IRS to target and suppress
conservative political groups, they’ve tried to “amend” the First Amendment to
permit much more regulation of
political speech, and, with Robert Kennedy Jr., have actually called for the imprisonment of those who disagree with
them on certain issues.
The "Net
Neutrality Act" ( a misnomer, as it isn't an "act", is not legislation and wasn't "passed" by a deliberative body of elected representatives) will slowly but inevitably lead to abuse and the squelching of
innovation and expression even as it purportedly seeks to protect free and
unfettered access to legal sites and
content. The Fairness Doctrine was
really designed to vastly curtail
free speech. The People’s Republic of China is not a Republic, but a communist dictatorship where the people
have little to no say in their
government. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is neither democratic nor
a Republic and its citizen-slaves that haven’t starved to death yet have even
less say in their government- and their lives- than the Chinese do. Statists
love to use certain words and phrases in their
false advertising campaigns to convince the people to trust them and
relinquish their natural rights to the federal government.
The
internet ushered in a new era of freedom…of
thought and mind. Despite its excesses, it had made it much, much harder for
dictators and totalitarian states to shield their citizens from information and
ideas that they don’t wish them to be exposed to.
Recently
the governments of North Korea, China, and Russia, among others, have taken
control of the internet and now determine what sites their subjects can and
can’t have access to
.
Incredibly,
the United States is now essentially going to
follow suit.
The
affect of the Net Neutrality Act is not neutral.
The
government is yet again empowered.
The
people are neutered.
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