Genachowski has a plan to expand government's power over the Internet: AP FCCVia the FCC and the stealth use of news rules and regulations, Mr. Obama is able to take control of the Internet, controlling its content, in spite of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
FCC has a self-imposed December 21 deadline to implement new Internet rules. As the regulations officially go into effect after the holidays, the FCC is ready to add the Internet to its "portfolio" of regulated industries. In effect, the FCC will have the ability to steal our Internet freedom by simply declaring it has the "right" to regulate it. Mr. Obama will use the FCC plans to implement control of cyberspace by issuing regulations.
The proposed FCC Internet rules and regulations are about to be implemented without Congressional legislation being enacted.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he has circulated "draft rules" that he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." This bald face lie reflects the vast gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama Administration policy.
What is the reason behind this move
Most of us realize that internet journalists have the freedom to report the news without using "political correctness." Not everything on the internet is made by reputable sources, but freedom leaves it up to the viewer to use their skills to decide which is fact or which is opinion. Nonetheless, the internet challenges any lies that the Obama Administration puts out that the so-called "mainstream media" simply accepts and repeats as the truth. As long as the American people have unfettered access to the Internet, Obama cannot continue to spread his propaganda without being challenged. The truth limits his possibility of being re-elected.
Barrack Hussein Obama blames the Tea Party Revolution, and the results of the 2010 election, on the American conservatives' unfettered access to the Internet. That appears to be the real reason that the Obama Administration authorized the FCC power grab to regulate the Internet. Obama talking heads might refer to regulation as a form of "Net Neutrality," or a cyber-version of the "Fairness Doctrine." But, plain and simple, it is old fashioned, censorship of the views of a majority by a frightened minority who want to silence that majority.
Congress needs to exercise their oversight over the FCC to insist that the FCC postpone the implementation of these new regulations until proper Congressional Committee hearings are held to determine whether the Executive Branch has the Constitutional authority to take over the Internet.
Mr. Genachowski's December 21 proposals should be STOPPED by Members of Congress. In fact, both the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives should make it even clearer that the FCC should STOP trying to expand its REGULATORY EMPIRE and should STOP trying to control our freedom of speech over the internet!
Three federal judges in three different cases have already ruled that the Internet deserves the same protection under the First Amendment as printed material receives.
According to the Washington Times: Obama blatantly insists that he has the right to regulate the Internet through the FCC---which regulates the other electronic mediums: radio and television.
"With a straight face, Mr. Genachowski suggested that government red tape will increase the 'freedom' of online services that have flourished because bureaucratic busybodies have been blocked from tinkering with the Web. Ordinarily, it would be appropriate at this point to supply an example from the proposed regulations illustrating the problem. Mr. Genachowski's draft document has over 550 footnotes and is stamped 'non-public, for internal use only' to ensure nobody outside the agency sees it until the rules are approved in a scheduled December 21 vote. So much for 'openness.'"
That's why In the administration's zeal to "protect the people," the social progressive zealots in the Obama federal bureaucracy are not averse to writing the rules and regulations like this. It makes a clear statement. It takes away our freedoms on the Internet; but it is all under the claim of "protection."
Make no mistake; Barack Hussein Obama is very determined to undermine free speech by seizing cyber-control Internet free speech under the disguise of making sure our safety and security are of prime importance. The recent WikiLeaks fiasco has helped him to rationalize this tremendous increase of government control to the American public.
When it comes to the Internet, bipartisan majorities in Congress have insisted on maintaining a strict hands-off policy whenever the left has proposed legislation to impose censorship through regulation. A federal appeals court confirmed this in April, by striking down the FCC's last attempt to do it. In order for the FCC to take this control, it needs Congress to give it explicit statutory authority to do so. Since they have chosen not to, Mr. Obama intends to just do it himself. The Obama Administration is overstepping its Constitutional boundaries? These proposed regulations prove that!
Freedom of the Press is guaranteed by the First Amendment. Federal judges have ruled specifically that the Internet has the exact same freedoms. But the Obama Administration is trying to control the Internet... and YOU! We have not witnessed this kind of government intrusion since FDR tried to regulate newspapers in 1933.
On December 1, with an impending implementation on December 21st, Mr. Genachowski announced to the media that he had circulated his draft rules memo. He said it will "... preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet," adding that the federal government will increase the freedom of online services because, he noted, heavy use in some areas of the Internet slow the "web experience" for everyone sharing the same information superhighway lines.
Even though that may be partially true, the United States government should not dictate to us what we can and cannot do on the Internet. Period.
Although the federal judiciary has extended First Amendment protection to the Internet, Barack Obama believes that he has the executive authority, WITHOUT legislation enacted by Congress, to arbitrarily regulate who uses cyberspace and what access they may enjoy, based entirely on the content of the material that they wish to publish there. If this isn't a violation of our basic rights as Americans, then what is!
Freedom and openness should continue to be the progress and governing principles of the Internet. We must be prepared to do battle with the intrusive FCC federal regulations that will clamp down on our 1st Amendment rights via the Internet because, historically, when government seizes liberty, it's gone forever. Free speech is free. Don't let anyone regulate your right to speak.
Taken and adapted directly from: Gary G. Kreep, Esq.
Executive Director
United States Justice Foundation
'FCC's threat to internet freedom,' click here. "On this winter solstice, we will witness jaw-dropping interventionist chutzpah as the FCC bypasses branches of our government in the dogged pursuit of needless and harmful regulation. The darkest day of the year may end up marking the beginning of a long winter's night for Internet freedom."
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