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FCC Chair ‘Calling CEOs’ to Garner Support for Net Neutrality

Democrats’ net neutrality proposal is entering its home stretch and members of the party have a clear message for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Julius Genachowski — don’t screw this up. The Hill reports:

Democrats allied with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski are working to put public pressure on [FCC commissioner Michael] Copps as the net-neutrality vote draws near.

Genachowski needs Copps to vote for his plan during a commission meeting on Tuesday if the rules are to pass.

As a result, Democrats who support the plan are pushing this message in the media: If Copps doesn‘t vote for Genachowski’s plan, the consequences will reverberate all the way up to the White House. They are arguing that the damage could even hurt President Obama.

A prominent Democrat close to the White House said it this way on Friday: “If Copps votes no on Tuesday, he’d be handing the president a huge loss at a time when the Democrats should have a big win.”

“Voting no…would be snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory and would be giving the Republicans a huge win,” the source said.

So-called “net neutrality” has been a controversial campaign pledge the Obama administration has worked to implement.  But Copps‘ support for more stringent regulation and a potential ’no‘ vote threatens to derail Democrats’ plans.

As the debate amongst the FCC commissioners will end in a vote Tuesday, Democrats on Capitol Hill are keeping a close eye on the process, warning that the slightest mix-up could spoil the proposal.  During a floor speech Saturday, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., — an ardent supporter of net neutrality — condemned FCC chair Genachowski for being too concerned with the interests of the industry.

During his statements, Franken said he is “concerned when I hear that the chairman of the FCC is calling the CEOs of companies they are supposed to be regulating, seeking their public endorsement of his net neutrality proposal.”  Franken, like Copps, is urging Genachowski to make the proposal’s regulations even more stringent before the agency votes on it Tuesday.

“I sincerely hope that the FCC will make significant improvements before then,” he said.

He also said the FCC commissioners should “think long and hard before they vote to approve a proposal that could actually make things worse for all Americans.”

The White House weighed in on the debate last week. Spokesman Matt Vogel suggested that President Obama believes Genachowski’s proposal “constitutes an important step in preventing abuses and continuing to advance the internet as an engine of productivity growth and innovation.”

But Republicans are working to block the Democrats’ proposal, re-introducing an amendment that would ban the FCC from using government funding to adopt or implement any net neutrality regulations.  In addition, the two sitting Republican FCC members have questioned whether new neutrality regulations are even necessary.

“We are concerned that both factual and legal conclusions may have been drawn before the process has begun,” they said, adding that the Commission should not adopt rules “in an effort to alleviate the political pressures of the day, if the facts do not clearly demonstrate that a problem needs to be remedied.”

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  • southernloyalty
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:43am

    Hey Polish_Sensation your a little late on that one, they’ve always controlled it. Look who runs google, yahoo, facebook, myspace, ebay, and pretty much every other big thing on the net. But you can’t tell anybody to look into something that because that would be waysis!

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  • STQ
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:39am

    Is their a single soul out there,whatever party that you affiliate with,that is not ALARMED and FURIOUS, at the almost daily, onslaught of a new BAN ?How can ANYBODY trust this bunch in power right now?Really….is their ANY-BODY out there who is not LIVID?and whats the matter with you, if your o.k. with this?

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    • royalstar
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 2:02am

      Progressive,commie, socialists are ok with any and all gov. controls.

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    • Anne G
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 5:46am

      If people in this country can’t see this crap for what it is, then hit the floor on your knees and pray!!!
      Hugo Chavez wants the power to go after websites that “cause anxiety”. PLEASE PEOPLE.
      Contact your reps.

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  • pamela kay
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:36am

    Does anyone know if there is a site we can go to so we can let them know that we do not support this?

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  • phil1765
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:32am

    I would laugh if this wasn’t so deadly serious, I can’t believe the comments that JZS and Walkwithme leave. How utterly naive, or just plain ignorant do you have to be to think that this net neutrality crap is to keep the internet free and open? They are trying to pass a law so that they can decide what you do and don’t see, when it should be a market function that decides what the content is. The government couldn’t regulate a good bowel movement but you freaking libs/socialists want them doing everything for you, when is enough, enough for you guys? Sorry but I don’t need the government to do anything for me except maintain the military. No I don’t need them to build my roads, or give me social security, or provide my freaking healthcare, please just get the hell out of my life and let me prosper to the best of my ability.

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  • New-American-Saviors
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:27am

    This is what YOU VOTED for …“Yes We Can ” … The people have Voted…Now they’ll have to live with their choice. The rest of us have to sacrifice along with the Left I guess… UNLESS We Stand up
    Really…Stand up !

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:18am

    The Internet is the success that it is BECAUSE the govt has no control over it…

    They need to stay the hell out of it and as far away from it as possible, the moment that they get involved, the internet will be destroyed!!!!!!!!!!!

    We will have Internet freedoms of China and Iran if they get their way!

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:16am

    Ben Franklin, a printer and spilled beans….

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  • seeker9
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:13am

    I kind of like the internet the way it is. Some obtruse reason for regulation is most likely a Trojan horse. Watch for what you wish for!

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  • Polish_Sensation
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:13am

    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:58am
    Notice how all involved are Jew’s. Al Franken, (FCC) chair Julius Genachowski, the Emanuel brothers.They control all the other media outlets except for the internet, so now they are trying to control the internet as well.

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  • Stacey
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:01am

    Be afraid…be very afraid

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  • Polish_Sensation
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:58am

    Notice how all involved are Jew’s. Al Franken, (FCC) chair Julius Genachowski, the Emanuel brothers.They control all the other media outlets except for the internet, so now they are trying to control the internet as well.

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  • Glenn is my hero
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:55am

    If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!! This will just tighten the noose on free speech. Better dead than red!

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  • spreadcommonsensenot pc
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:36am

    I pledge alligence to the rothschilds of the united one world govt and to this one world govt for which we stand, one babling world under the control of the antichrist, we will become invisable with absolutely no justice of any kind any where for all…………..georgie georgie georgie sorryarzzzzze enjoy

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  • behonest
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:31am

    Well I made up my mind anything Al Freaking Franken is for I AM AGAINST

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  • therapist
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:28am

    Don’t assume good will on their part, it is 1 step away to providing Obama with a “turn off” switch to the internet. This all is not going to end well.

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:26am

    This is pretty typical liberal ploy. They put one innocent sounding name in the headline and pretend that’s all that the bill does. Recently, we saw this with the Dream Act. The Democrats spread their propaganda that the Dream Act was about illegals who graduated high school or join the military. If you actually read the bill, you realize that it’s backdoor amnesty for millions of illegals. Old relatives would also have gotten amensty. Anyone who even applied under the Dream Act couldn’t be deported for 6 years. It was a 6 year hiatus on deportations and Mass Amnesty for millions.

    Now, you see idiots like JZS starting the whole debacle over again. The take the party talking point and post it all over the internet even though it completely ignores the meat of the bill. It’s NOT just about internet service providers not favoring their content. That’s the liberal talking point on Net Neutrality (just like the Dream Act talking points were that it was only amnesty for HS graduates and military). Anyone who watches Beck has seen hours of footage of the net neutrality people talking about all the things net neutrality would do (in their words, not Beck’s…he just plays the videos).

    Look what Chavez is doing in Venezuela THIS WEEK regarding the internet to get a glimpse of what the socialists want for America. Scary, scary stuff. It sounds so warm and fluffy if you have tunnel vision to the liberal talking points. It scares you to the bottom of your soul when you see what socialists want to do with the internet. Of Chavez just wants to “protect” the citizens from prostitution and drugs and other bad things……….what a nice guy!

    Please

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:57am

      MRMIKE is wrong about net neutrality – do your own research – read everything there is and make up you own mind – it is not about the internet being taken over – it is about keep the net free!
      http://maboulette.wordpress.com

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    • 23
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:21am

      Walk-your website link is not a resource, it is an opnion site. Try again

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    • superwrench4
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:51am

      Idiot, they want to be able to shut down Your access to the net. What do You call that. They only call it net neutrality so idiots will believe them.

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    • ADDICTED TO TRUTH
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:54am

      At the very LEAST, it crowns the FCC “Regulator of the Internet”—-Has anyone ever known government to NOT expand power?….Yeah, I didn’t think so.

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    • starman70
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:13am

      Net Neutrality = Government Censorship PERIOD!

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  • neverending
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:24am

    Hurt the President? who gives a crap. Boo hoo hoo – he just needs to get voted out of there as soon as possible – that would be a vote for impeachment

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  • Rob_M
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:23am

    Al Franken likes it, that should be enough for anyone else to be afraid of it.

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  • hickoryrat
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:18am

    “NO MORE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF OUR LIVES”
    Patriots must take a stand and do it soon.

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    • OneRepublic4us
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:08am

      I might remind people anything the government takes over is subject to corruption. We see it everyday.

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:16am

    This sounds like what Chavez is doing in Venezuela (and what the Emperor did in the Star Wars series): You take over power under the guise of doing good. Then, when the power is granted, you implement all the evil intentions you always had, but never made public because you knew your intentions would outrage the citizens. Evil is getting easier to spot every day. The FCC has been infested with evil people for many years now.

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    • Bauervision
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:13am

      I agree, after reading up on it and seeing the implied “freedom” it would offer, I can only be suspicious that for the first time, Obama wants to encourage freedom, when all along he has been opposed to it? Reading that they want to allow that anyone can upload and connect any device to the internet seems to be the place that I am concerned of. What do they want to upload? What do they want to connect?

      Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
      -C.S. Lewis

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  • jzs
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:12am

    Before everybody gets worked up about this with false ideas, let’s be clear on the issue. “Net neutrality” means that NO ONE, not the government, not service providers, and deny you access to any website on the web. China does not have net neutrality: the government restricts what websites you can see. North Korea does the same. Net neutrality is about freedom of anyone, with any service provider, to access any website they chose.

    The alternative is that you internet service provider gets to decide what website you can access. Without net neutrality, service providers can decide what websites you can access, based on whether they profit or not from giving you that access. Want to have unlimited access? Then you have to pay extra.

    Net neutrality guarantees your freedom to see anything on the net. Lack of net neutrality means that your service provider decides what you can access on the net. Look it up. This is a question of whether we want to be like China, with internet access limited to what the government wants you to see (in our case, service providers) or whether you have the liberty to see whatever you choose.

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    • davecoolworld
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:33am

      Don’ t believe the explanation or the hype. If you are not a mole, you are obtuse.
      This is a market issue. If an ISP is controlling content, the market itself will take
      care of any “problem”. This is clearly the Feds trying to take away freedom of
      speach, you dolt.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:50am

      JZS explanation of net neutrality is correct – Glenn has been explaining it wrong. You should do your own investigation and you will find out that JZS is correct on this one. http://maboulette.wordpress.com

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:53am

      JZS,

      “Net neutrality guarantees your freedom to see anything on the net. Lack of net neutrality means that your service provider decides what you can access on the net. Look it up. This is a question of whether we want to be like China, with internet access limited to what the government wants you to see (in our case, service providers) or whether you have the liberty to see whatever you choose.”

      JZS, the Internet is not a right because it costs money to run. Someone worked to put up the lines, and someone works to keep everything going.

      The Internet IS A COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE, and as such, those who own the equipment used to connect to it – i.e. the Internet Service Providers – get to allow or deny access to whomever they like. Freedom means I don’t have to sell you jack, or allow you access to anything I own.

      Further, you don‘t ensure that government doesn’t control the media by allowing them to regulate it.

      It’s about time for those pitchforks.

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    • Quad-rip-legic
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:00am

      Stop drinking the Kool-Aid and you may see things for what they really are. The fairness doctrine and net neutrality are no good for the citizens.

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    • Donald J
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:14am

      Sounds to me like this is something that does not even need discussed. I have never, ever, never been blocked from any site I have tried to access, so why would that change and why not pass regulation preventing any sites from being blocked by the carriers instead of charging people extra to see sites controlled by the carrier. I think I smell something very stinky here, fishy….yeah, its Al.

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    • superwrench4
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:50am

      Idiot, “Net Neutrality” is just the phony name of what they are trying to do. The government is talking contol, regulation, and shutting the net access down if They determine it is in their best interest, not Your’s.

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    • Edwardosan
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 4:30am

      JZS must be some kinda mole. Ill also bet you will be one of the people who bitches the loudest .

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    • EP46
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 5:09am

      @JZS
      Not true
      Congress and the court have previously told the FCC that …NO …they cannot regulate the internet…but they continue with this
      Companies have said the regulations will raise cost to them, to the consumer, and will result in lost jobs.
      We have enough regulations for the internet already…THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TO CONTROL THE INTERNET…a promise made by SENATOR obama during his presidential campaign.
      Remember ….Democratic commissioner Mignon Clyburn is the one who wants ‘all nappy headed kids’ to have free internet

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 5:36am

      The problem here is not “Net Neutrality” as defined in a simplified way as forbidding, for instance, an ISP that has it’s own PPV service from slowing down packets from a “Netflix-type” streaming service because they‘ compete for viewers with the ISP’s service.

      The necessary legislation or regulations to ensure such would take up only a few pages and could be easily read and comprehended by anyone with an understanding of basic internet tiering and networking practices. It would NOT require another thousand-page-plus monstrosity.

      It’s what ELSE is included in this stinker they want to enact that has absolutely nothing to do with the stated purpose that is the problem.

      It’s like passing a bill titled “The Puppy and Child Protection Act” that says in the first sentence it is against the law to be cruel to puppies and children, followed by 2,000 pages of legislation that is actually an outrageous usurpation of individual freedoms by the government.

      That they refuse to even consider passing/enacting a simple rule/regulation/law concerning ONLY tiering & networking non-discrimination to prevent abuse of the kind I mentioned above, AND NOTHING ELSE, proves that once again the Progressive radicals are up to their same old tricks of removing freedom while paying off political allies.

      Beware; They are determined to seize control of, or destroy the ability for us to use when it’s needed, any and every form of mass communication they can. It is essential if they are to succeed with their revolution. When things start collapsing, they must be the only voice left for people to rally to and the only source of information so that they can spread their propaganda without contradiction from dissenting voices.

      They are in a quandary, however. They and their plans have been unmasked far, far too early. Now, instead of destroying us as a nation and a free people, any attack they launch will only serve to strengthen and spread our resistance while unifying us around the principles set forth by the Founding Fathers.

      Far from facing a nation filled with sheep and sleeping drones, they now face something completely different. The Progressive radicals now find themselves playing the role of Darth Vader facing We the People as Obi-Wan Kenobi; “You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”

      Spread the word. Tell everyone you can get to listen. Organize. Plan. Gather food, clean water, weapons, and ammo. Just like the old British WW2 “Home Guard”, every neighborhood needs to be organized with plans in place for communications, defense, emergency evacuation locations identified, and food/water distribution systems set up. When they come in after the troubles start to tell you; “We’re here to save you!“ you can answer ”From what? We’re fine, go away before we become annoyed.”

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    • jenjenrw
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 6:28am

      JZS…while this net business seems all neutral, there is something that is missing. The National Broadband Plan. This piece of crapola is basically this. The Obama admin decried that broadband must be brought into every household in America. They consider broadband an infrastructure issue. The kicker is this, the government then would be the only arbiter of the connective tissue needed to access the net, thereby becoming the sole source of all information. All ISPs would be required to obtain leases to access this broadband network. Wireless devices are gobbling up more bandwith everyday; why the switch to digital over analog for TV stations…RFID. With so many analog bands available, it leaves plenty of upconverting bandwith for RFID chips. These chips are being used in all sorts of applications from foods to tires to pets and people. Wifi signals are easier to hijack and so any information you send via wifi the government will little problem acquiring. If the Government is the sole source of this connective tissue, then tell me, how much truth will there be? They don’t like what you say…poof, your access is denied, or better still, here’s the gateway to state sponsored-approved propaganda. No thanks! Give me good old Comcast or AOL. Let consumers and industry leaders figure this out!

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    • Pocono Countryboy
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:10am

      You wish that’s all it is JZS…but once they start regulating we’re screwed. As many have said…once that camel’s nose gets in the tent—

      All this bill does is give the government an entry into regulating the internet which is the absolute LAST thing you want in a so-called free society.

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    • wash1776
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:01am

      @WALKWITHME1966 You are wrong. What net neutrality really means is that you can not use more of the internet than your neighbor. If you have an at home business and your next door neighbor is just an ordinary Joe who doesn’t use it as much as the person with the business, the business person would not be able to use it as much as needed. That is the neutrality part. Not with anything else being equal.

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    • psst
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 10:27am

      This is NOT Communist China— YET.
      Here, the communists cannot just come right out and say You will do this or that if you know what is good for you. Not yet anyway..
      Not to worry though.. Have a little more patience. It’s on the way.
      Hussein the Moslem marxist is going around congress His Tsars and different commisions are tying down Gulliver w/ lsmall strands of ropes.
      One strand,two strand etc. Pretty soon there will be thousands of strands and Gulliver will not be able to wiggle his little toe, muchless get a hard on to push back.
      Time is getting short people..

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    • AngryMobOfOne
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 3:32pm

      The sales pitch for a “progressive” (they should really call themselves Stalinist for accuracy) power grab is ALWAYS couched in “helpful” terms, but has little to do with the actual purpose. Obamie let the cat out of the bag a while back, though. Well, he confirmed what most already knew, but this may be a newsflash for you:

      “Look: when Social Security was passed, it applied to widows and orphans, and it was a very restricted program, and over time, that structure that was built ended up developing into the most important social safety net that we have in our country. The same is true on every piece of progressive legislation, every bit of progress that we’ve made. … But the point was that we had created a structure, we had put a framework in place, that allowed us then to continue to make progress. That‘s what we’ve done over the last 18 months. That‘s what I expect we’re gonna keep on doin‘ as long as I’ve got the capacity to do it, as long as I’m President of the United States.”

      ~Barack Obama, October 25, 2010, The Daily Show

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    • mrzmac
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:01am

      JZS,
      Your explanation is right on the money for someone WHO IS TOO STUPID TO LOOK BEYOND TODAY! Do you not think that once the regulation begins by the government then they will also start deciding which site is “fair” and “speaks for all people”…what the hell is wrong with you? Do you not understand Americans are a free people with the right to make our own decisions whether you agree with them, whether they are the best thing for each of us, whether you are offended by them or not! This is the “first” step not the final step to limited access. I don’t care who is in power they have no right to make my decisions for me!

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:07am

    Tell the FCC to go FUCC themselves…

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:43am

      You should get a prize for that.

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    • javablanca
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:44am

      now THATS a bumper sticker if i ever saw one! if you came up with it yourself you should be damme proud! its a keeper.

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 5:44am

      Where do I buy that bumper sticker?
      I’ll just make one.
      I think there’s a business idea here somewhere. A kit to let you print and stick your
      own bumper stickers.
      Am I too late?

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    • psst
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 10:30am

      Ok. You just told them.
      Now what?
      Bet telling them to go FUCC themselves have them scared to death.

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 10:39am

      psst…If the whole country told them to…They would take their Marxist idea and slither away…Got it???

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    • akelso
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:42am

      The FCC joke you made was priceless….I can make bumper stickers, business cards, or anything else you want. I’ll split it 50/50 if you want to get the word out.

      Alan Kelso FB

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 2:38pm

      akelso…just about every radio station in the country would probably like a plaque…

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:05am

    Orwell was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo right.

    The Bible is too. One world government, anyone?

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  • davecoolworld
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:03am

    Attacking the first ammendment…again. The second ammendment is all we have left. G-d help us save The Republic.

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  • Mousey
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:02am

    anything these guys are interested in MUST be no good. keep the revolt going !!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:07am

      Well, here we go folks…..the government won’t be happy til all the voices of dissent are unable to communicate or network. Keeping us divided and the truth hidden is the only way they have left to truly have any chance of succeeding in their evil intentions……

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    • BMartin1776
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:09am

      Umm who is complaining? Im not aware of any problems with the net that calls for this. You’re right if they are all for this it isnt good. Less control is how and why our Founding Fathers structured the US. These “people” think like those out of ‘1984’. Next thing you know we will all be guilty of thought crimes!

      Stay vigilant and we must bring the fight to corrupt politicians, media and special interests front door through http://www.savingtherepublic.com

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    • JournalistStuntDouble
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:36am

      You can see the future by studying the past.

      Julius Genachowski, sat on board of Ticketmaster.

      Ari Emanuel (Rahm’s Hollywood bro) sits on board of LiveNation.

      Ticketmaster/LiveNation merger originally ruled a no-go on grounds of potential mammoth anti-trust violations…suddenly passes with flying colors when Julius becomes head of FCC.

      “Trust me,” Julius says.

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    • bolec slodkie
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:01am

      The prupose for controling the internet is because the last time the soviets tried to take the Duma in 1992 an office used a piece of new technology to find out how bad the riots that they were orderd to quell were. The soviets took over the radios and televisions an told everyone that there Boris Yelsin was no longer President and the army was protecting the Duma from roiters.

      The new technology? Private telephones. A young officer’s mother lived accross the street from the Duma and he called to see how bad it was. He found out there were no riots and the rest is history.

      Imagine what could happen if the internet were under government control.

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    • jdog777
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:05am

      Net neutrality is the camel’s nose in your tent. The Progressives are dying to bridle the internet. We can not let it happen.

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:46am

      I would love to see moral standards imposed and ban porn sites and the such. However, that too would be the camels nose in the tent. I want the Goverment out of our lives as much as possible and not to tell me what I can do on the internet. As for the porn and other stuff I really disagree with and think is harmful to us, that is the conquence of being free and requires my personal judgement and action not to view. NO one elses!

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 2:03am

      @Blazers
      Do you realize what is going on here? The revolutionaries (Copps, Franken) are pressuring the neo-commies to “seize the day,” and take total control of the Internet without further delay. The neos want it too, but they don’t want to risk making big waves when time is running out, and the Repubs are set to gain control of the House in Jan.: “Voting no…would be snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.” It’s a matter of how fast you want to go as a radical, and whether you are willing to make big waves when all eyes are on you. Ultimately, the goal is the same, namely, to take away each and every one of our freedoms.

      The neo-commies have started the Useful Idiots Campaign to get prominent conservatives on their side, people like Krauthammer and O’Reilly, who will convince us that there is nothing to fear. Patirots, we must not let our guard down or stop fighting these traitors.

      P.S. Get a ham radio and develop a code with your circle of patriots.

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 2:06am

      I agree ..seems the last people they are concerned about is WE the PEOPLE … we need to continue to rise up and let it be known this will not stand! Once again freedom isn’t free … email and call congress let them know this must not happen! It is bad enough that we have had information scrubbed from the net .. we do not need the government controlling what information we are “allowed” to have …. once again call and email now!

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 2:28am

      Easy way to get contract information for Congress…..

      http://senateconservatives.com/callsheet?c=O24D0A14518868E

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 2:30am

      OOPS .. Contact information .. don’t have my glasses on ….lol

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    • 101
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 3:15am

      .
      Glenn Beck On Net Neutrality

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GewPsjUTAFA&playnext=1&list=PL56FA776875424F7D&index=37

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    • roguetea
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 5:15am

      rogue, TALK, Every American
      Quite honestly, I look forward to this final screw in of these screw ups. There is nothing that will rally more to the polls against these trolls than controls on the Internet. This is something every kid that digitizes can and will relate too. Already, the attempts at gagging net traffic fills the news with much of it heading to the courts. Let this Left Gov Gag. In turn, they will get left out again, gagged at the polls. This is the one issue that can and will supersede the HealthCare insanity. We need debate, can we not simply do without the FCC along with the IRS. They simply invite a total rethink of it all. Thanks to this Administration, change and hope will return to America, because they create the need to reverse their hell bent, godless course.
      tea party, Own 11, ROGUE ON

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 5:30am

      Hey CATB

      Hate to rain on your parade but telephone calls and emails are not going to take the country back at this point. The powers in control pretty much ignore the will and/or wishes of the American people at this point. They have no fear of us because they know all we do is talk tough i.e. talk radio, etc. They are not threatened in the least by us. Bottom line…anything short of force ain’t going to cut it. You have to put the fear of God in them.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 5:59am

      @Cobra Blue
      They don’t listen to us, but will we listen to them? Obama has donned his bipartisan cloak. How many voters will he fool this time?

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:18am

      The “net-neutrality” act that’s up for a vote by the FCC is the first step of NEUTRALIZING the Obama and liberal progressive opposition. It’s the first of many moves to circumvent the American Constitutional right of free speech. Once they get their foot in the door, on this one, many more will soon follow. Obama’s plan to “ fundamentally transform ” the United Sttes of America includes the “neutralization” of the American Congress and Senate. If he has his way, his czars and ministers will make the laws that best suit and promote his political agenda. Make no mistake about it, this is just another part of the power grab for complete control of the government by taking it out of the hands of the American people to transform our democracy into a totalitarian communist state.

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    • guyperram
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:23am

      There are no problems except this bald faced attempt to do away with the right of free speech. They “pass’ this, it is time for action by the states.
      The criminals in support of this “law” need to be arrested, by the military. All the criminals, including the marxists in congress. Otherwise the military also has “forgotten” their oath to “preserve and defend the constitiution of the Unite States, against all enemies, foreign or DOMESTIC”. Just how much more do they need to realize that our greatest enemy is domestic.

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    • KICKILLEGALSOUT
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:52am

      There is no problem with the net but the problem is the government traitors that are trying to push their Socialist agenda to grab power from the people!
      Beck has already said it, Van Jones and George Soros the Batman and Robin of Global Socialist Scum need to grab control of the media!

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    • psst
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 10:13am

      @Cobra
      You said it all.
      Blah-blah-blah-blah ain’t gonna stop the Hussein marxist machine.
      There is only one way to take the country back.
      Congress is impotent. Hussein the marxist Kenyan Moslem have loaded up w/his tsars/zsarszar/bazar to circumvent the constitution And the will of the people.
      Right now, Race Pimp bigot Al Tawana Sharpton is taking his marching orders from the Kenyan Moslem to attack Rush.
      Make no mistake about that.
      People are talking about 012 election. There may not be an 012 election if this keeps up.

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    • darkloch
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 3:51pm

      well all this is is political has nothing to do with the people. the Dems are showing it is about looking good in the eyes of the people not doing good for the people.

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