Yesterday, the new House of Representatives took another step to make good on its campaign promises last fall to the American people.<\/p>\n
The House Energy & Commerce Committee, by a 30 to 23 vote<\/a>, approved a resolution prohibiting Obama’s rogue Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from imposing so-called “Net Neutrality” on the nation’s Internet sector. This follows last week’s 15-8 vote<\/a> by the Communications and Technology Subcommittee on the same issue. The FCC doesn’t possess the legal authority to regulate the Internet via “Net Neutrality” in the first instance, as a unanimous court of appeals<\/a> ruled last year.\u00a0 Further, Americans oppose this sort of Internet regulation by a solid two-to-one margin<\/a>, and a rare bipartisan<\/a> majority of 300 from Congress has formally instructed the FCC against pursuing this lawless course.\u00a0 Ignoring all of that, the FCC rammed through “Net Neutrality” by a partisan 3-2 vote in December.<\/p>\n Big-government activists claim that “Net Neutrality” is somehow necessary to prevent Internet service providers, who invest the tens of billions of dollars necessary to create the networks on which the Internet passes, from blocking various websites or maliciously discriminating in Internet traffic.\u00a0 But they cannot explain why that hypothetical epidemic of blockage has never occurred despite two decades of explosive Internet growth in our lives.\u00a0 And with good reason – any service provider that did so would quickly find itself out of business due to irate customers.\u00a0 But never mind that.\u00a0 What are facts, after all, against the desire to add yet another sector of the American economy to the Obama Administration’s regulation?<\/p>\n Fortunately, Americans know better.\u00a0 And just as fortunately, Congress and the courts are doing something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, the new House of Representatives took another step to make good on its campaign promises last fall to the American people. The House Energy & Commerce Committee, by a 30 to 23 vote, approved a resolution prohibiting Obama’s rogue Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from imposing so-called “Net Neutrality” on the nation’s Internet sector. This […]<\/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":[84,188,346,102,1219,148,24,28],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-free-market","tag-genachowski","tag-net-neutrality","tag-obama","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","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=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8930,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}