When bureaucrats talk about increasing our “access” to x, y or z, what they’re really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to “increase” Internet “access.” Call it Webcare.
By a vote of 3-2, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday adopted a controversial scheme to ensure “net neutrality” by turning unaccountable Democratic appointees into meddling online traffic cops. The panel will devise convoluted rules governing Internet service providers, bandwidth use, content, prices and even disclosure details on Internet speeds. The “neutrality” is brazenly undermined by preferential treatment toward wireless broadband networks. Moreover, the FCC’s scheme is widely opposed by Congress — and has already been rejected once in the courts. Demonized industry critics have warned that the regulations will stifle innovation and result in less access, not more.
Sound familiar? The parallels with health care are striking. The architects of Obamacare promised to provide Americans more access to health insurance — and cast their agenda as a fundamental universal entitlement.
In fact, it was a pretext for creating a gargantuan federal bureaucracy with the power to tax, redistribute and regulate the private health insurance market to death — and replace it with a centrally planned government system overseen by politically driven code enforcers dictating everything from annual coverage limits to administrative expenditures to the makeup of the medical workforce. The costly, onerous and selectively applied law has resulted in less access, not more.
Undaunted promoters of Obama FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s “open Internet” plan to expand regulatory authority over the Internet have couched their online power grab in the rhetoric of civil rights. On Monday, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps proclaimed: “Universal access to broadband needs to be seen as a civil right … (though) not many people have talked about it that way.” Opposing the government Internet takeover blueprint, in other words, is tantamount to supporting segregation.
Cunning propaganda, that.
It must be important to them if they are saying it is a civil rights issue.
When I was in high school, there was no internet. If you wanted to screw around with computers, you programmed algebraic equations in fortran for fun. No one taught me how to use a computer, nor gave one to me. I do okay. Even the nappy headed ones should be able to function without broadband. The man cannot keep them down forever.
drop dead, to strom front where you belong
So they think censorship is a civil right?
Sounds like they're warming up to announce that "WE'RE TAKING BACK THE INTERNET FROM THE RACISTS AND HOMOPHOBES!!!", which will naturally draw even more support from the Leftist base than they have already have. If this is implemented, we are just one more step closer to the 4:00 AM visit from the "Civilian Security Force", which most of us once thought could never happen here.
We think differently now…
Yes Yes we must not allow any criticism of the debauchers and deviants or any reporting of the Blacks who commit 75% of all felonies, or of MSM and the prince of fools in the oval office.
I can remember a few years back Al Gore was using the term "digital divide" when it came to internet access for the poor. Well it seems the demorats have come up with another fresh catchphrase and idea to insure a new generation of voters be groomed as donkeys. And of course dialup isn't fast enough for the "economically disadvantaged." It has to be broadband now. At least 300 mbps is my guess.
Votes – that's really what this is all about. The donks don't give a rat's behind who logs on to who and at what speed it happens.. It's just another sleazy voter drive. Helen Keller could see through this one.