{"id":8372,"date":"2011-01-21T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2011-01-21T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T15:50:45","slug":"verizon-challenges-net-neutrality-obmamas-fcc-picked-a-fight-now-it-got-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8372\/verizon-challenges-net-neutrality-obmamas-fcc-picked-a-fight-now-it-got-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Challenges Net “Neutrality” – Obama’s FCC Picked a Fight, and It Got One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, President Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted by a partisan 3-2 margin to regulate Internet service via Net “Neutrality.”\u00a0 On that date, we predicted<\/a>,”The FCC\u2019s reckless effort to regulate Internet traffic will now begin a slow death march to ultimate defeat from legal challenges<\/a> and Congressional action.”<\/p>\n

Exactly one month later, the judicial front in that battle is underway.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Verizon Communications challenged<\/a> the FCC’s rogue vote in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.\u00a0 That’s the same court that unanimously ruled<\/a> last April that the FCC doesn’t possess lawful authority to impose Net “Neutrality,” but the FCC defiantly pressed ahead despite that unequivocal ruling.\u00a0 In so doing, the FCC also defied 2-to-1 public opposition<\/a> and a bipartisan group of 300<\/a> from Congress.\u00a0 Obama took to the pages of The Wall Street Journal<\/em> this week to profess a new commitment<\/a> to regulatory restraint in pursuit of a healthier economy, job creation and more humble federal government.\u00a0 But his own FCC belies that supposed commitment with its Net “Neutrality” agenda.<\/p>\n

Leaders of the new 112th Congress have also committed<\/a> to overturning the FCC’s destructive attempt to regulate Internet service.\u00a0 Whether the demise of Net “Neutrality” comes legislatively or judicially, it can’t come soon enough for American consumers, investors and employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, President Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted by a partisan 3-2 margin to regulate Internet service via Net “Neutrality.”\u00a0 On that date, we predicted,”The FCC\u2019s reckless effort to regulate Internet traffic will now begin a slow death march to ultimate defeat from legal challenges and Congressional action.” Exactly one month later, the judicial […]<\/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":[19,188,346,102,1219,148,24,28,2309],"class_list":["post-8372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-free-market","tag-genachowski","tag-net-neutrality","tag-obama","tag-tea-party","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372","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=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8388,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions\/8388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}