{"id":7833,"date":"2010-11-22T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2010-12-02T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T22:34:50","slug":"obamas-fcc-to-forcibly-impose-net-neutrality-internet-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7833\/obamas-fcc-to-forcibly-impose-net-neutrality-internet-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s FCC to Forcibly Impose &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; Internet Regulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4716\/poll-americans-oppose-net-neutrality-by-2-to-1-margin-53-to-27\/\" target=\"_blank\">two-to-one margin<\/a>, Americans reject &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; Internet regulation efforts.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4633\/court-of-appeals-rejects-fcc-authority-to-impose-net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous<\/a> Court of Appeals has rejected the FCC&#8217;s claim to authority to impose it.\u00a0 Bipartisan groups of Congressional Democrats and Republicans have <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5437\/congress-to-fcc-abandon-plans-to-take-over-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\">written letters<\/a> to the FCC explicitly opposing it.<\/p>\n<p>So how does Obama&#8217;s FCC react in the face of these unequivocal signals?\u00a0 Apparently, by steering full-speed ahead to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/4ab0de46-f437-11df-89a6-00144feab49a.html#axzz161OfywZG\" target=\"_blank\">impose it anyway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those still unfamiliar with &#8220;Net Neutrality,&#8221; it is very simply a far-left effort to regulate Internet service.\u00a0 Yes, the same Internet that has prospered to date and revolutionized our lives precisely because of the <em>absence<\/em> of big-government regulatory interference allegedly needs to be &#8220;fixed&#8221; by &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; regulation.\u00a0 One need only consider the forces that favor &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; to recognize its destructiveness.\u00a0 Chief among those activist forces is Free Press, whose founder Robert McChesney unapologetically advocated a government takeover of the Internet to something called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistproject.ca\/bullet\/246.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Socialist Project<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What we want to have in the U.S. and in every society is an Internet that is not private property, but a public utility.\u00a0 We want an Internet where you don&#8217;t have to have a password, and that you don&#8217;t have to pay a penny to use.\u00a0 It is your right to use the Internet.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simply put, &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; is ObamaCare for the Internet.\u00a0 <em>Please<\/em> take a moment to <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/take-action?path=cfif\/dbq\/officials\/\" target=\"_blank\">contact your Representative and Senators<\/a> to demand that they stop the rogue FCC from suffocating private Internet investment and innovation with its toxic &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a two-to-one margin, Americans reject &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; Internet regulation efforts.\u00a0 A unanimous Court of Appeals has rejected the FCC&#8217;s claim to authority to impose it.\u00a0 Bipartisan groups of Congressional Democrats and Republicans have written letters to the FCC explicitly opposing it. So how does Obama&#8217;s FCC react in the face of these unequivocal signals?\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,346,148,24],"class_list":["post-7833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-net-neutrality","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7899,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions\/7899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}