FCC Votes 3-2 to Regulate Internet via Net Neutrality
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The FCC has voted 3-2 along political lines to extend the government’s reach and regulate the internet via net neutrality.
The vote to institute net neutrality rules marks the first time the government has stepped into the world of internet regulation. Proponent’s of the net neutrality rules say that the move allows the government to stop companies from controlling too much of the internet, while opponents view it as a scary example of government control and an impediment of private business.
“As we stand here now, the freedom and openness of the Internet are unprotected… . That will change once we vote to approve this strong and balanced order,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said at a commission meeting on Tuesday, according to The Hill.
The paper says the new rules “create new transparency standards for wired and wireless carriers,“ while also preventing ”wired carriers from blocking lawful applications and services.” For example, “wireless carriers are prohibited from blocking websites as well as applications that compete with their services.”
The rules have drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle, with Republicans arguing that it marks too much government oversight, and Democrats saying that rules don’t go far enough. Instead, Democrat commissioners wanted stronger rules for wireless companies, but said they would settle for today’s new rules.
But the move enraged the commission’s Republican members.
“The FCC is not Congress. We cannot make laws,” said Republican Commission Robert McDowell, describing Tuesday as “one of the darkest days in FCC history.” He also suggested that new rules may be in for a court battle.
“The era of Internet regulatory arbitrage has dawned,” he said.
Fellow Republican Commissioner Meredith Baker accused the chairman of smarmy political and manipulative tactics to pass the order, saying she only received her a copy of the proposal in the late hours of last night.
“I think we can all do better and let’s do so in the New Year,” she said.
Baker also questioned why the FCC rushed to vote on the rules as the Christmas holiday approaches. “I keep returning to what should be a threshold question,” she wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post on Tuesday. “Why does the FCC plan to intervene in a rushed manner, days before the year’s end, in the one sector of the economy that is working so well to create consumer choice, jobs and entrepreneurial opportunity? Until we can answer that, I hope my colleagues will stand down and allow Congress to take the lead on these issues.”
In an op-ed this morning on RealClearPolitics.com, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called the move a “vampire-like“ leap on the ”next great sector of American life,“ and said those who want to regulate the internet are trying to ”suck it dry in the name of ‘public interest,‘ ’fair play,’ or any other euphemistic glamour the Executive and Legislative branches can be lulled into.”
“This may sound like a Halloween tale,” she wrote, “but the FCC‘s Christmas Week takeover of the Internet is the best example of President Reagan’s maxim that the nearest thing to eternal life on Earth is a federal program.
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flagbearer
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:35pmThe FCC was one reason I voted against Obama. We all knew what would happen with it under a progressive administration. We’re also in trouble with the Supreme Court. This was all planned and well thought out. America is in deep trouble, and I just can’t get over how many folks are still oblivious to what is happening.
Report Post »Diamondback
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:05pmRoger that!
It is amazing how many remain clueless and look at
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:17pmNow they need something to cause “civil unrest” real or imagined. Most like it will be caused by their minions, bottom up, top down, middle out.
Report Post »They must have the military, they are moving to quick.
PITMASTER
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:49pmToo many are just happily clueless. Our country is in grave danger but those people, I think, just can’t get their head around the fact an American president is not on their side. But, sadly, he is a clear and present danger to our liberty and freedoms. Now, the feds want to monitor high powered rifle sales along the US/Mexico border. If you buy more than two in a week, gun store owners are to report you. But the odd thing is, its just for 180 days. So do they know something we don’t by imposing the 180 day rule? Get ready, folks, it’s coming.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:04am@PITMASTER,
This is just another attempt at destroying the 2nd Amendment, the BATFE doing their intended job as it were. They have had the “Two or more Handguns rule” since the Brady Bill was passed, but not for long guns, no crime statistics to base it on. So now they want to “Borrow” the Mexican Revolution that has started as an “Excuse” to include ALL other firearms in their defacto REGISTRATION scheme. The 180 days only for Border States is a trial balloon to test the reaction by gunowners and if they can get it as a “Temporary” rule, it won’t take long to make it “Permanent” and in all 50 States. It also serves to get their “Stats” up, by shifting the “Suspect Pool” over to law abiding U.S. Citizens and dealers that can be entraped and prosecuted for whatever “Gun Crimes” they can invent to fit their intended target victims.
AND, the Gun Gestapo is now on urgent high alert for “Rifles” being bought in this country caused by the current Political Climate their Communist Masters have brought about. The “Cat” is now out of the “Bag” on the Communists, and they are all too keenly aware that a S**t Storm is brewing. Look for a spate of “Right Wing Militia” cases to suddenly appear based on Intel they have gathered using this new “Law Enforcement Tool”.
Here in Texas, this whole thing is one big joke. Billions of dollars in Drugs, Guns, People, and EVERYTHING ELSE you can imagine, crosses the “Border” daily without any knowlege whatsoever of the “Authorities”. Been that way forever, won’t change anytime soon. The BATFE has less chance than a snowball in hell, of making even a slight difference in that, and they know it. Even funnier, is the reality that so many millions of guns, and billions of rounds of ammunition, have already been bought in Texas since the Shoe Shine Boy took over, not many folks really need anymore now. Not to mention the “Cottage Industry” of folks capable of manufacturing firearms that has sprung up. It’s like the old story about the Palestian that worked for a Jewish Sewing Machine Manufacturer in Israel. Seems that his wife really wanted a sewing machine, but they couldn’t afford one. So the Palestian stole one part a day for sometime. But everytime he tried to assemble it, all he ended up with was a sub machine gun.
Report Post »Sister_Mary
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:35pmHopefully The Blaze will find the Clyburn part where she pulls the RACE Card…
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:10pmYou mean EVERY NAPPY HEADED LITTLE KID SHOULD GET MY PAPER? I mean have free internet ? I know, racist sounding but what the hell, I don’t care anymore… They can do it and I can’t ? Not that I want anyway,(just making a point) but aren’t they the ones ALWAYS screaming for equality?? How can we be equal if they can say things that I can’t ?
Report Post »Cuthalu
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:34pmEveryone of those on that panel who voted yes need to be brought in front of congress to answer for this and for the FCC to be defunded ASAP.
Report Post »Deb4ks
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:43pmI agree! Its time people wake up to the fact that unelected officials are running around setting up regulations that they do not have the power to do! Congress needs to slap them back and let them know who is the boss. If the current Congress does not have the balls to do it, then in January the new Congress needs to make this a top priority! You can not by pass the people’s representitives and make your own rules. Completely unconstitional.
Report Post »ConservativeBeauty
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:33pmwho voted on this?????????????????
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:04pmNo one, other than the administratively placed staff of the FCC. Obama administration that is. They have bypassed our constitutionally defined system and replaced it with elitest socialists who have no experience, nor credentials to run government, but believe they know whats best for us. Just another nail in our coffin my friends.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:33pmThe revolution is here.
It’s ironic that for all the howling by the LibProgs about GWB, they have turned out to be the most ruthless, iron-fisted fascists America has ever seen.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:44pmWell Nick. The progressive, liberal, radicals howl about everything they don’t like or want.. Trouble is they never have anything constructive to say. They just indulge in name calling, innuendos and outright lies. That is never going to change because this is what theyare.
Report Post »free_the_net
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:37pmWell Wash. The crazy, hyper-conservative, right-wing, radicals howl about everything they don’t like or want.. Trouble is they never have anything constructive to say. They just indulge in name calling, innuendos and outright lies. That is never going to change because this is what they are.
Even more true on the right.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:32pm@ better red than dead
You would be wrong on that. This is a BAD IDEA. Unless you haven’t been paying attention the last oh few decades…..our government does not know how to run anything. Read the article “The FCC has voted 3-2 along political lines to extend the government’s reach…” What do you think that means?
Report Post »Better_Red_than_Dead
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:42pm@IAMMADDOG
“Unless you haven’t been paying attention the last oh few decades…..our government does not know how to run anything.”
The past few decades, the government has been enforcing net neutrality. So, you tell me – has the Internet been a bastion of free ideas, or limited access and controlled content during this time?
“Read the article ‘The FCC has voted 3-2 along political lines to extend the government’s reach…’ What do you think that means?”
Considering the primary opposition to net neutrality is the telecommunications industry and ISPs who have openly announced their wishes to control content, I would say that means Republicans tend to support corporate interests over individual ones.
VanGrungy
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:03pmidiot…
We can‘t decide as individuals what the Government’s policies and regulations will be, nor can we withdraw our money and choose a different bureaucracy…
If the private companies want to control the resources they bought and paid for, that is the company’s choice.. I have the choice of another provider…
Keep trying commie…
Report Post »Better_Red_than_Dead
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:16pm@VANGRUNGY
“We can‘t decide as individuals what the Government’s policies and regulations will be.”
As a democracy, actually we can… well, who am I kidding? No, you’re right, without $50 million dollars and an army of lobbyists we probably can’t.
“If the private companies want to control the resources they bought and paid for, that is the company’s choice.. I have the choice of another provider…”
Which would be true, were it not for the fact that literally every provider intends to control access this way because it will make them money. Any websites that can pay up get preferential treatment, those that can’t get left in the dust.
You can’t choose another provider if all the providers are doing it.
IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:28pm@Better dead
The FCC has no power to do this. It is congresses job to do this. Why then didn’t they leave it for congress to debate and vote on? Anyone who thinks this is not such a bad thing is really kidding themselves.
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:36pmIt’s just like paying for prime retail space……what’s the difference.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:02pmBETTER RED THAN DEAD = JZS … You can change the name but never your language…I can spot a mile away..
Report Post »free_the_net
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:34pm@termlimitsnow There is a very big difference. Prime real estate has value because its location (visibility, ease of access of customers, proximity to other businesses that draw customers, etc) is a natural function of its place in the real world. No matter what you do some places will be easier to get to than other. The internet, on the other hand, is a level playing field. Every address is as easy to get to as any other. Corporations would like to create artificial barriers (market distortions) create advantage for some who pay and disadvantages others. If is as if some companies were able to create “prime real estate” by putting up barriers and tearing up roads. They would like to take away your freedom to visit whatever sites you choose (such as this one) by making harder or more frustrating to visit sites that the provider doesn’t like.
These regulations are about preserving the level playing field for both ideas and business. The don’t allow government to control content. The prevent corporations from controlling content. The preserves our freedoms by preserving an open market place. The alternative is to allow a few corporations to create a distorted self-serving controlled market.
Most people on this site have clearly not read the regs or have any understanding of what net-neutrality is or why it is important to our freedoms. The press release describing the regs in available on the fcc website: http://www.fcc.gov. At least have an informed opinion rather than just an opnion.
IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 7:58am@ BYTOR (the snow dog?)
God I hope you are right! I believe you may be.
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:31pmWe tried it you little people’s way.
And we found out that you say things we ruling elitists don’t agree with.
So we’re going to take your free speech.
When you learn how to use it, then you can have it back.
Now pay your taxes, we need a raise. :)
Report Post »BrianL
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:30pmWe need to demand that the FCC be dismantled.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:30pmAwwwwwwwwk.
Report Post »REETZBEE
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:29pmI think Glenn was right when he said we wouldn’t even recognize our country by the end of the year. Is this their way of starting a revolution in the streets?
Report Post »TheRealElvis
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:29pmThe last frontier of freedom is harnessed by our government. It is time for them to go. It is time for a change. No, really, it is. Every day there is a new sign. When will the silent majority kick in?
Report Post »Diamondback
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:02pm“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.” –author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government. — Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist (#28)
Who are the nine Republicrap Senators that have indicated they will side with the Demoncraps and vote for the START Treaty? Add them to the list IIIpers. Thanks.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:28pmTHE BUREAUCRACY:
When the Bureaucrat replaces the “free market” with a regulation, we all lose. Every regulation gives a political crony a windfall at the expense of the general population. Printing money is not the only cause of inflation!
If you believe that the tyrants act in the best interest of the individual, consider the following quote:
“If the government is to tell big business men how to run their business, then don’t you see that big business men have to get closer to the government even than they are now? Don’t you see that they must capture the government, in order not to be restrained too much by it? Must capture the government? They have already captured it.”
The quote is from an early wannabe tyrant, Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Since then each encroachment on our individual liberty has caused problems that have been used to justify more tyranny.
Rules and regulations created and enforced by the “Fourth Branch of Government” (the bureaucracy) that restrict innovation, inhibit the creation of wealth and provide advantages to the “technologically challenged” are the root cause of our problems. Inflation, credit and failure of financial institutions are just the symptoms, an attempt to cover up the failure of “disastrous centralized planning.”
Money manipulation is simply a method of misappropriation of wealth. Wealth must be created before it can be misappropriated and the Bureaucracy inhibits the creation of wealth.
Our problems started when the bureaucracy obtained significant power during Roosevelt’s (T) Administration. About 10 years later the Fed Was created and it’s been downhill every since.
Chapter 8 (The Bureaucracy – ICC) of “21st Century Common Sense” addresses this point in detail, including a description of the “Iron Triangle” (control of the bureaucracy by special interest) and an enlighten quote by Woodrow Wilson highlighting the capture of the Bureaucracy by “special interest.”
The bibliography on my website allows you to visit the websites used for the book’s research just by “control-clicking” on the website address. http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »pltmcs
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:10pmAnd we can all trust business to do the right thing? The issue has never been to have no regulation, it has been to have the right level of regulation.
Report Post »super_jalapeno
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:28pmHere we go folks! Hang on!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:28pmOh, %$%^$ ^%^%%&^& ^%$#$%&**%#@ (*&&&^%!!!!!
Report Post »ConservativeBeauty
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:51pmI second that!!
Report Post »countryboy42
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:39pmKate, I could not have said it better.
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:48pmKate for President! The pinko needs to do a little fact checking on who these guys in the FCC are and what the’ve said!
Report Post »Better_Red_than_Dead
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:27pmNet neutrality is how the Internet has always been run since its inception. This does not allow for a government takeover. This does not allow the government to control access to content. The literal purpose of net neutrality is to prevent ANYONE from controlling access to content. Please do not buy into the hyperbole.
vennoye
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:31pmYou sound like you ACTUALLY trust that what the government is saying about this is true!
Report Post »Better_Red_than_Dead
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:44pm@VENNOYE
Why wouldn’t I? The government enforced net neutrality all through the 90s and 00s, and the Internet was fine. That’s twenty years of observable data to back of my belief, which I think makes for a pretty solid basis.
Diamondback
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:57pmGive me liberty or give me death.
No “red” for me.
The only good communist, are dead ones.
I was taught that as a kid and have only seen evidence which confirms it.
Just sayin’
Report Post »jacquecustard
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:57pmCamels nose just got into the tent !
The Spineless GOP better get this bunch defunded and dam pronto about it.
Report Post »pltmcs
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:05pmOn this issue I agree with you on this issue. Sometimes us conservatives get a little caught up in core principles and don’t look at what is really happening. This legislation does not give the government control, it just makes it so the internet providers can not favor certain content. What makes matters worse, there is really no way for the average person to know that they are being manipulated without this legislation.
A quick example of what net neutrality prevents. The cable company that I use is left leaning. They could reduce the bandwidth available for accessing sites like TheBlaze and ProudlyMadeInAmerica.com for virtually any reason. This would decrease my ability to access these sites and might lead others, not me, to abandon these sites altogether.
Report Post »nephewofdboone
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:08pmYou’re a stooge for Media Matters, aren’t you? Your existence is offensive and bad for the country.
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:22pmPeople, this is “legilation” not passed by who I elected to represent me. These agency chiefs, and personnel are in the business of governance, not to legislate policy. They should act as a utility to execute the policy established by our ELECTED representatives, not create policy based on the input of the executive branch. Open your eyes. Wait until this time next year. The state of our country will be in even more dire straights.
Report Post »Cincinnatus Dogood
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:57pmCommunist
Report Post »AngryMobOfOne
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:58pmBetter_Red_than_Dead – What does that mean “Better_Red_than_Dead”? Are you just trying to get it on the record that you are an appeaser? Happy to lick the boot that kicks you? Or do you fancy yourself as the wearer of the boots?
There are millions of graves around the world filled with the bones of those who said “Better_Red_than_Dead”.
Or, perhaps your handle is just an unhappy, coincidental arrangement of letters and did not alarm you since you’ve never read a history book.
Report Post »Better_Red_than_Dead
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:42pm“Are you just trying to get it on the record that you are an appeaser? Happy to lick the boot that kicks you? Or do you fancy yourself as the wearer of the boots?”
Hardly. I just found it an amusing anagram of the old cliche, “Better dead than red!” used by anti-Communists during the Second Red Scare, having been adapted from the old Nazi phrase “Lieber tot als rot!” which said the same thing. I guess it was Goebbels way of trying to convince the Wehrmacht to give it their all on the Eastern Front.
Mostly, I just thought it was a good way to quickly identify my politics (which, as you may have suspected, are primarily left-wing.)
Sledgehammer
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:44pmAnd there will be no review boards (in the real world called death panels) in Obama care! This lot at the FCC has state it’s desire to CONTROL CONTENT on the internet, you would figure, if you job was communications, you would know enough that every one has a camera phone? I’m just sayin.
Report Post »bobbezza
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 11:11pmit’s called picking away of your freedom, you don’t realize, you don’t realize it…it’s GONE!!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 6:06amYou got this! Net neutrality is what we have all had and what we ALL WANT! It’s freedom of choice and freedom of speech! Instead of consumer protection this opens the door to big corporations (ie. AT&T, Comcast, cable co.’s.) The right AND left are, and SHOULD BE angry about this.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:27pmThis is bad news!!!! This needs to be reversed.
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:35pmNot only reversed, but the constitutional perverts pulling for this need to be fired and put on the government “do not hire” list.
Report Post »NE Cowboy
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:42pmIt will be! There is NO doubt.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:27pmCan Congress reverse this?
Report Post »angelia
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:30pmyes ,but will they
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:52pmIf they don’t, then it is time to let them know our real displeasure.
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:27pmGood bye freedom of expression. Will miss ya.
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:27pmThe FCC doesn’t have the right or authority to regulate the internet, just like they have no right to regulate Cable News or other programming on Cable TV or Satellite Radio. Congress needs to step in and strip the FCC of whatever power they think they have, that was not appropriated by Congress. While they are at it, they need to strip or restrict power from the EPA and many more groups.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:30pmActually eliminate many of them. Most are not really needed except to control the population.
Report Post »joek
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:55pmHow about all of the groups? There is not one Government Agency that has not tried to overstep its intended role. One little bite at a time and they will control the whole thing!
Report Post »True American66
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:19pmI am SO with you on this. People had better wake up. America is systematicaly being taken over by forces beyond the individual citizens control. Obama has proven over and over again that he is perfectly willing to sit back and let the progressive machine take this country by hook or by crook. We can only hope that in January, the real Americans will stand up and stop this maddness!
Report Post »lobster
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:33pmThere are two agencies that work, both constitutionally valid, they are the Army and the Post Office. Don’t go telling me the P.O. doesn’t work, cause it does. The rest of the alphabet soup agencies are not even kosher groups. SHUT THEM ALL DOWN!!!!!
Report Post »2dollarbill
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:26pmFreedom of speech…(void where prohibited by law)
Report Post »Resolved
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:41pmThat might be the best sum up I’ve seen.
Report Post »Flagwaver
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:48pmPretty soon, if we don’t do something to stop it, that will be everywhere except when along in your own padded room.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:02pmEvery talk radio host in America should join in the lawsuit challenging this stupidity.
Report Post »Citizen #25R624
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:25pmTime to defund the FCC.
Report Post »fastfwd
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:32pmYou are correct ! These people are out of control and need to be put in there place. And why we are at it do the same with the alcu they are all Marxist and they can leave America and never come back as far as im concerned !
Report Post »jackkemo
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:35pmOnly Ron Paul has the nutts to do that!
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:35pmNo, it’s time for ISPs to ignore the FCC, and for us to voice our opinion wherever we can.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:42pmI thought the FCC only regulated the airwaves? How are they able to regulate cable now?
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:44pmDefund, FCC, NPR, PBS, ACORN, M-O-U-S-E :-)
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:08pm@ Lantern
You’re correct. The FCC only has legal purview to regulate airwaves.
I debated the Constitutionality of the FCC with my Mass Communications professor while I was in college. I argued that the FCC’s ability to censor of a free press is unConsitutional because that gives more power to an oligarchy of 5 people more power than the Constitution would grant to a body of people designed to be much larger, that tyranny would eventually reign and that the FCC would eventually overstep itself by moving into areas of Communications it was expressly forbidden from. In short, I predicted this very move.
The BS hair splitting argument I got from my lefty wingnut professor was essentially “The First Amendment says ‘Congress shall make no law,’ it says nothing about government as a whole,” and to stop being paranoid. It’ll never happen. Wonder what he’s saying today. Probably loves the move.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:10pmThey don’t have the power to do this .. except in their and Soro’s mind … stand up to this treachery.
Report Post »Citizen #25R624
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 3:44amFCC was told no by the courts and it did this anyway. It’s time to defund, disband, reorganize, and redefine the purpose of the FCC–and place real, legislated, legal boundaries on its authority. Then we can line up the other federal agencies one by one and give them the proverbial rectal exam.
Report Post »2dollarbill
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:25pmAdd your comments
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:56pm Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:20pm…what the… ?? lol
The above comment was “ ”
…and it never appeared?! Spooky, dude.
No, not Spooky Dude, just spooky, dude… lol
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:25pmSo they called the Republicans Bluff, now it is time to see if the “new” republican party is all bark or if they have some bite
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:08pmThey better bite .. or they will be gone next …
Report Post »Cincinnatus Dogood
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:54pmThey better tear some ass.
Report Post »jackkemo
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:24pmHere we go!!!!!
Report Post »JESUS-IS-LORD
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:00pmGoodbye, freedom of speech.
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:19pmAwesome. Now we too can be just like China and block anything the government wants blocked.
Constitutional Challenge in 3…2…. 1
Report Post »Bounder
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:17pmNothing in government is irreversible. Nothing.
Report Post »VTSickFreak
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:10pmThese bureaucrats exercise unbridled Government power and hide behind the Rule of Law for their own personal protection. They best be careful. Americans will not allow our freedom to be stolen, sold or compromised without a fight. They need to be frightened, very very frightened.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:54pmI bought food
I bought water
I bought Gold
I bought Silver
I bought new guns
I bought ammo
Crap, now I have to buy a ham radio!!!
Screw the FCC!!! I will nuke the airways with my rants!!
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:18pm@ Dustyluv
Uh- You have to have an FCC license to be a Hammie too.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:05amActually no you don’t “HAVE” to have a License to operate a short wave radio, anymore than you “HAVE” to go along with any of the other COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT’S Unconstitutional Laws and Edicts. However, be sure to have a 30 caliber, or larger Rifle, and the ability to use it properly, not to mention the Cojones to actually deploy it.
NOTHING is going to be reversed, repealed nor changed in this mess, unless/until significant numbers of COMMUNISTS begin to succumb to “Lead Poisoning”.
Report Post »Values101
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:23pmHere they come…..
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:31pmIts Christmas, so they wanted to give us the gift of censored speech is all. Frankly that wasn’t on my list to Jesus of things I wanted, and I doubt very much it was on anyones list but these control freeks formally known as socialists/progressives. Actually I do the socialists/progressives a disservice as they seem to be as against this as conservitives are. So really the only ones who want (and for NOW have this) are the globalists.
Report Post »jackkemo
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:33pmWow !!! You all most owed me a Coke!
Report Post »NoMoreGray
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:39pmIt was not enough to put them in, now we must be that voice that won’t go away. We need to contact those we just put in and those we allowed to stay and isist they get the power back from all the regulatory agencies. Defunding is not enough they must shrink or eliminate them and get back to Constitional representation.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:39pmTake lots of pictures before it’s too late so we can prove to our grand kids that there really was a country of brave, free, independent people called America.
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:44pmThank You @Better Days for rising above the shameless attempts to turn Americans against other Americans. Go visit the NPR comments on this topic and you will see a very pis*ed off group of PEOPLE like yourselves. If anyone tells you the Leftists are responsible for this YOU ARE BEING LIED TO.
@leftfighter
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:52pmImmediate Constitutional challenge.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 1:59pmI was going to leave a comment, but a ruler come out of the monitor and smacked my knuckles. Stoopid FCC.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:06pmLaw unto themselves! THIS MUST NOT STAND
Report Post »casey1
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:07pmThey are already here VALUES101
Report Post »wyldibrouse
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:13pmWe‘re beginning to get a bird’s eye view of what living in hell is really like. It’s going to take remembering that we surround them and having great courage. We’ve just been vomited on by hell.
Report Post »rpp
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:13pmBetterDays has is right. This is not a Left vs Intelligent people issue. It is about an unvarnished attempt to control the Internet worldwide as it is impossible to know what country a server is in. This is being lead by those who want to remain in the shadows as they take over our lives. They do not want intelligent people or leftists organizing an opposition to their efforts.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:14pmThat is #6 of the 7 things necessary to complete the downfall of the republic. I wonder if the Smithsonian has a working guillotine?
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:21pmAt this point Sarah Palin could be as retarded as Corky from the Wonder Years
and still beat Obama hands down in 2012
thanks Barry
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:23pm@ guyperram You go that right more bs coming too before the end of the year.
Grab the tar, feathers, pitchforks and torches enough already but you go right on ahead America you keep up those emails, phone calls, faxes and protests etc etc its all working out so well. Not! Wake Up! Get out of your shell, cross that imaginary line you have for yourself and engage these people head on! The Tactics are there its just a question of what you are prepared to do? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7jsKLXqA0g
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:25pmYou ain‘t seen nothin’ yet !!!
Report Post »Major Infidel
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:26pmAwesome. Merry Christmas Comrades!
See you in the trenches…
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:28pmjust call me comrad…whats next…we have the food police …we have the discrimination police…DADT…all these new regulations…if anyone cannot see what obama and his administration are doing is a fool…..
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:29pmDid anyone not expect this abomination against free speech and free trade to pass the Progressives and the nightmare ship they are building?
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:32pm“Say it” ….“write it” and “post it” WHILE YOU CAN !!
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:32pmHow can a government agency suddenly decide that it wants to regulate the internet without consent of the Congress?
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:36pmI say we hold the climate hostage until they reverse what they have done.
Everybody go out and start you cars and let them run until they put this back.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:43pmTransparency as defined by Socialist Liberal Progressive No Label Leftist is what’s permissible and deemed appropriate by paranoid Marxist.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:48pmLook at it this way
the more gas we use the more ethanol we use the more
BRAZIL HAS TO CUT DOWN THE RAIN FORREST
to supply us with ethanol.
So drive everywhere you can. Drive to your next door neighbors house and leave the engine running.
Go and cut down your own christmas tree, hell cut down four or five christmas trees.
Order a suana made of Brazilian Cherry. Eat more Caribou it tastes better than chicken.
Use the bightest lights you can find in your home and even light up your dogs house.
Flush the toilet three times after every use. Paint the roof of you house black so it causes global warming even faster.
Do these things in mass and they will relent.
Ditto Head
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:55pmI love Beck, but I must say, this site seems to attract some very paranoid people. You morons ought to unclinch your buttocks before you strain something. You’re all a bunch of Chicken Littles.
Sondergard
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:58pmthe Constitution does give us the right to take down the gov. and start a new and we should do it in a peaceful way however people wont join together untill things get much more restricted.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:01pmCall it what you will, it’s obsurd
Report Post »DarKangelAZRAEL
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:06pmThe everyday liberal folks out there might not want this but you can be damn sure that their Marxist/Communist/Progressive elite leaders most definitely wanted this! The party line votes prove it. When are you everyday folks that lean left gonna wake up and see that they are leading you down this path?? Wake up and get a hunger for LIBERTY! Not Gov. Coddling.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:10pmAbsurd as well considering the timing and means for which this administration chose to proceed is uncharacteristic for the United States Government and irresponsible over it’s citizens.
Report Post »BreeZee
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:17pmPolwatcher
Report Post »Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:32pm
How can a government agency suddenly decide that it wants to regulate the internet without consent of the Congress?
**to hell with congress! how about consent of “we the people”. Congress is null and void so step over it and move on commrade all be fine after you worth is re-assigned by the progressives and if your getting older just die you don’t qualify for obombacare.
mudvilles9
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:20pm/bump BREEZEE
Report Post »urrybr
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:22pmSieg Heil!!!!!
Report Post »dragonfire420
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:36pmI would be fascinated to see how they are going to regulate an open network…you don’t need an isp to access the net. and for that matter, whats to stop someone from spoofing through another continent? are they going to trace every ip on earth at once? are they god and all seeing? i think it shows stunning ignorance of them to think this can actually be implemented efficiently, if at all. It’s BLATANTLY obvious there is mass ignorance as to how the internet works on the hill… It’s time for these bloated wheezing old pontifical hacks to go home and sit on the front porch and watch squirrels, and we need to get some younger HONEST tech savvy minds in there stead!
Its goin to be a hoot to see what happens in january! buckle up guys this is going to be a rough ride!
remember this is a power grab, and a impediment not help of any kind !
scary words….”i am from the fcc and I believe I can regulate ANYTHING!!!”
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:44pmYep – we have now lost the internet – really sad!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:46pmBmartini1776: Isn’t there an old saying that goes something like this: God makes men big and small, Mr Colt makes them equal?
Report Post »They reallyhave no idea the sh–storm that will hit them when enough real Americans finally get angry.
pajamash
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 3:51pmOne step closer to the edge….
Report Post »RECOVERING-LIBERAL-IN-WOODSIDE-CA
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:05pmWe are becomming the USSA: the United Soviet States of America, comrades
Report Post »jbl8199
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:11pmDamn FCC. Someone needs to censor THEM.
Report Post »101
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:16pmGlenn’s been correct 99.9% of the time on what these commies are doing to destroy America!
This socialist utopia is cancerous, how much time do we have left? 2,3,5 years before SHTF!
Prepare for the worse & maybe you’ll survive!
Report Post »ronjohnston
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:21pmThe FCC has been told by Congress that the FCC does not have the power to make laws and to leave the internet alone. This brazen grab should be answered by the DOJ with arrests and prosecutions. They are breaking the law of the land, the Constitution.
Report Post »RECOVERING-LIBERAL-IN-WOODSIDE-CA
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:23pmIf you want to see what’s in store for us, just read “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. This was written in 1935 but it couldn’t be more current. This is just the beginning…. I think I’m getting sick.
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 4:31pmguyperram:
Well what Mr.Colt said is true but Glenn, myself and coutnless others are trying to keep those on the edge from going that route. If we go down that road all bets are off on our future it will not go the way many think it will. It could very well make 1930′s-40′s Germany look like a walk in the park! The Oathkeepers do not have the numbers high enough for us to feel good for when the SHTF. Too many out there, in LE and military, will follow orders instead of their gut, heart and OATH to the people and Constitution.
The other problem is too many are still in the dark, too many are complacent and I like many fear that by the time the masses, we need to stop all this, wake up it will be too late. I have written that ppl will not wake up until all this crap going on is literally at their front door. Some prob see it now and blow it off with the “someone else will handle it” mentality Not realizing they are that someone! Tis isnt good this opens the door for more govt control. How many of those 1st 10 rights we were re-affirmed in having are left by this radical govt? Keep in mind SCOTUS told them NO, but the FCC went around them. This is bad news folks this should not be taken lightly as a way to even out bandwidth use etc it is just one more example of the danger we are in.
A symbol, something elemental to get behind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtf4idmK7kQ
Report Post »Big Bob
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:05pmWhere do they derive this authority it most definately is not within the constitution. These morons at the FCC have no authority to create law they are not elected officials and elected officials do not have the authority to pawn off their duties as elected officials.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:10pm@ Firstlast – I for one will blame the leftists for this travesty. Progressives in the Federal Government are cheering this move by the FCC. It puts a foot in the door to expand internet regulation to begin policing content. Unless this is stopped by the courts, the FCC will have complete control of internet communications within the next few years. Bigger government, more regulation, less personal freedom. Progressives may or may not have been behind the design of this portion, but you can bet your @ss they will take it and run with it.
@ Ditto Head – I wouldn’t be so quick to call us all conspiracy theorists or crazies…. This is the same FCC that is targeting your beloved Rush Limbaugh with Fairness Doctrine. If the FCC exands further and is given final say on internet content, those same people who enacted this regulation will the the same ones pulling the plug on the golden microphone.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 5:33pmjust the beginning ?
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/homeland-securitys-coming-war-against-911-truth-activists/
Dootuz
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 6:01pmIt’s the beginning of the end.
Report Post »The1776er
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 6:27pm@breezee and many others;
Chill out, guys! The progressives want you to be angry! Don’t fall into their trap!
Report Post »Aldo_the_Apche
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 6:53pmHey guess who started the FCC it was Rosevelt oh god this is scary
Report Post »racialcoward
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 7:14pmFEDERAL COURTS SAID NO IT IS ILLEGAL REGULATION
When do Communists like Obama ever listen to judges or obey any law. This is treason, ignoring court rulings for the President who took an oath to uphold the law is treason. I hope Obama does not mis behave as Sadamm Hussain did when he was being hung.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 7:23pm101: Most likely a few months, not years.. Maybe less if they control the military.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 7:44pmYes, Roosevelt did start the FCC, the reason was with no regulation or rules, radio stations were broadcasting or trying to jam competitors and you had too many radio stations on the same or near frequencies, thus the FCC was set up to regulate and guide radio stations so we didn’t have 10 stations trying to be 750 AM in the same area. Now the FCC has no buisiness doing this and I see a huge lawsuit coming up, or congressional action.
Now, who wants pie?
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:04pmThey’re coming to take your guns next!
Report Post »nptden
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:28pmLove the way these Commies use the word ‘historic’……kinda like Karl Marx.. notice there key words…‘transform’, ‘iconic’…’move-on’…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 21, 2010 at 10:31pmWell Sinista, the Govt. checks my gun everytime I go through the TSA line, as long as they don’t take or touch my Rifle……
Report Post »Blazergirl
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:02amWe must all contact our Congressman and Senators and tell them to vote NO. If we don’t we will end up like China! They censor everything. Just ask Google. We can not let up on our government. They work for us. Remember?
Report Post »Ellie
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:49amNONE of these new rules for the Internet are needed. It is the freest form of free speech that the world has ever seen. Leave it to the Obama administration to attempt to silence the world.
Congress has never given the FCC the legal authority to enact these rules so I‘m pretty sure they will not stand for very long and I’m hoping that the next Congress will drag these FCC TYRANTS in front of the People’s House to answer for this crime against the Constitution.
America IS the Constitution: Learn it, Love it, Live it, OR LEAVE! <– Click ELLIE for the new design.
Report Post »ayobro
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 1:31amtransperency means if you at work looking at sports illustrated your boss has to come over and tell you they are watching you…
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tgarrett369
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:48amwell lets all get prepared. load your guns, grab your gold. stock up on food. and fight till we win!!!
Report Post »101
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 3:23am.
Glenn Beck- On Obama’s FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF2C235fD7o
Washington, D.C. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski recently appointed Mark Lloyd, a former senior fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP), to be the FCC’s “Chief Diversity Officer.”
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 7:38ambmartin1776: I realize this. Shooting is absolutley the last resort. If we can get our state governments off their dead butts, they actually are the best shot to correct this problem with the Federal government. An article 5 convention may be able to put the genie back into the bottle, but they aren’t awake, or maybe they are infiltrated. Marxism seems to be rife throughout all branched of our government.
Report Post »Once the shooting starts, things quickly spiral out of control. Only God will know what we end up with, but the odds do not favor a representative republic. In fact the odds favor what we are turning into, a dictatorship.
He who does not know history, is doomed to repeat it.
madashades
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 8:32amWhere will this end. All they want to do is regulate, which is liberal speak for, “we know better than you”. NO THEY DON’T
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 11:02amExactly where do they get their power to regulate the internst since the courts have already said they did not? So court decisions mean nothing if you are a part of the Obama administration. You just keep going until you find a corruptable judge or you just ignore laws. It is time to reign in all there regulatory agencies. They should have no power to initiate any regulations. They should only submit regulation requests to Congress and Congress decides. No where in the Constitution is any regulatory agency given power to make laws and make laws they do. They issue a regulation and it has the same standing as a law passed by Congress. The difference is all the regulators have to do is print it in the Federal Register and once published it becomes law.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:16pmWe’re making a list, checking it twice, gonna make sure who’s been really naughty and…
Then we are going to demand that the incoming Congress go to work on dismantling the Obama plans, every damned one of them!
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Report Post »Clive
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 3:31pmfrom reading these posts, it seems like most of you don’t know anything about net neutrality. esp. “BMartin1776”, do you have any idea what you are talking about? or you just like to talk tough and “put people on notice”. what a joke, i wish i could meet some of you people so i could beat your asses.
Report Post »Nixit
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 5:38pmI may be mistaken, but what law was passed in which the FCC may create/dictate their own laws?
Report Post »MBA Herrin Truth
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 8:09pmAnyone think this can be changed by the end of 2011
Report Post »dawgPound
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 11:27pm@ DAHRIPROCK : You wrote: “At this point Sarah Palin could be as retarded as Corky from the Wonder Years
and still beat Obama hands down in 2012″
1) “Corky” wasn’t on the “Wonder Years”
Report Post »2) I find it ironic that you use the term “retarded” and throw in Down Syndrome as a qualifier of the “retarded”. Do you think she would appreciate your comment considering her son has Down Syndrome? I gonna guess not.
3) Next time you want to insult someone, leave the handicapped alone and insert your name instead, it will work better.
dawgPound
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 11:30pmBefore you dullards start freaking out, find out what “net nuetrality” is. As your saviour says “do your homework”….which none of you ever do.
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