Stop Net-Neutrality!

"I am pleased that there is broad agreement inside the commission that we should move forward with a healthy and transparent process on an open Internet," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said.

Yeah, right.

FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski is Marxist promoter of "social justice" which, in case you need a translation, means Communistic Redistribution of your money and property. It's a pretty safe bet that anything he's in favor of....I'm opposed to. And this is a good example.

This innocuous sounding quote—I just love the way they pepper their totalitarian speech with words like "healthy and transparent" and "open". Just like they use "democracy" when they mean "socialism", knowing most Americans hear "democracy" and think "republic"—is banging the drum for government CONTROL of CONTENT of the internet. And don't let his harmless sounding rhetoric fool you.

Julius Genachhowski is a habitue of Free Press, which the Media Research Center and NewBusters.org call "the Media Reform Wing of the Social Justice Movement", and co-author of The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio, in which he argued for the government to "remedy" the "problem" of conservative talk radio, by among other things, forcing commercial owners who fail to abide by their (fairness doctrine?) rules to pay a fee that would subsidize (Leftwing) Public Broadcasting.

Public Comment on this further Government Grab of our freedoms...and those of commercial enterprises....and threat to the economic free market and the free exchange of ideas—is open until  January 14. Please bombard them every day....EVERY DAY...with comments AGAINST this attempt to take over and destroy this last frontier of freedom! And get every one of your liberty-loving friends to do the same thing.

Do it HERE. Click on the number 07-52. "Commission Inquiry Into Broadband Market Practices Docket, which will take you to a form for filing a comment.


Oh...and for once, John McCain gets it right:

With the threat of of a court fight looming, Democrats in Congress are mulling legislative options to promote net neutrality. But Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said he introduced legislation on Thursday aimed at prohibiting the FCC from enacting rules to regulate the Internet.

 You might want to send him a "atta boy".

wtp

The Confusion that is "Net Neutrality"

This issue is a deceptive Gordian knot. People whose opinions I value have opposite opinions on it.

In the final analysis, I come down on the side of Gummint Out!

Whatever goodness they promise never works out—even when it sounds perfectly reasonable, and perfectly beneficial. Without knowing more than that, my instinct is to be agin' it if the Lawmaking Lords are for it.

And if Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski is for it, considering he's probably got the hammer and sickle tattooed on areas of his anatomy better left unmentioned, there is not the slightest possibility it's good for anyone but Leftist government power grabbers—and maybe ACORN.

Here's one of the arguments on the "anti" side. And I particularly like how this quote sums it up:

"Think of it as the Fairness Doctrine or McCain-Feingold for the Internet. Or a mythical solution in search of an imaginary problem."

Sounds about right. Perfectly in line with everything we know about how the government works.

"Although the term “Net Neutrality” sounds innocuous enough, its name conceals very destructive consequences. Instead of an open Internet in which competing service providers and wireless carriers remain free to experiment with alternative models, Net Neutrality would for the first time impose regulatory control on one of the few flourishing sectors in our current economy. That's hardly "neutral".

wtp