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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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CFIF Opposes Attempt to Revive Failed Net Neutrality Rules Print E-mail
Tuesday, September 26 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel today announced her intent to pursue net neutrality regulations once again.  In response, Center for Individual Freedom president Jeffrey Mazzella released the following statement:

“Calls for so-called net neutrality are the product of hysterical predictions about the destruction of the internet, being pushed by far-left activists who want to implement a heavy-handed regulatory regime onto the private sector and consumers. As time has shown, not only were these predictions total fantasy, but America’s light-touch approach to regulating the internet kept our networks resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas tightly regulated markets like the EU had to slash service to keep networks functional. 

“Government control of the internet is bad for freedom and the economy. Under the brief trial of Title II net neutrality rules, investment in telecommunication decreased and the adoption of broadband faltered.

“Furthermore, today's announcement ends years of productive, bipartisan work at the FCC and will inevitably throw a wrench into the many important initiatives underway at the Commission. 

“Right now, the FCC is working to close the digital divide, root out unsecure networking equipment, reform infrastructure permitting, identify spectrum for the America’s 5G and 6G future, kill robocalls for good, reinvigorate the space economy, and more¬. These are critical initiatives that can’t be sidelined by an unnecessary partisan fight. 

“CFIF opposes this latest attempt to revive the repealed net neutrality rules and instead calls for the Commission to pay greater attention to the more pressing issues before it.”

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