If you thought health care and Wall Street were the only areas of endeavor over which the Obots want control, think again. Last month, a federal court told the FCC it has no authority to regulate the internet. But our Beltway masters were never going to allow their Orwellian “net neutrality” project to be so easily thwarted:
This week the Obama Administration chose to “reclassify” the Internet so it can regulate the Web anyway.
Internet service providers have historically been classified as “information services,” which means they are required to jump through fewer regulatory hoops than traditional telephone services. That means our Beltway masters (and their big donors) have less control—-and there’s the rub:
It hasn’t sat well with Democrats who want more control over the telecom business, as well as with some Web companies (Google) that want more leverage over Internet service providers like Time Warner or Verizon.
So, when the courts refused to bend beneath the weight of Google’s money, the appatchiks at the FCC went back to the drawing board. And they came up with a classic bureaucratic power grab. They couldn’t get their tentacles around the web without breaking the rules—-so they changed the rules:
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski did their dirty work this week by announcing that he plans to reclassify broadband lines so his agency can regulate them under rules that were written for Ma Bell in the 1930s.
Reclassifying ISPs as telecommunication services will have profound consequences for the Internet, and everyone who uses it. And if you are naive enough to believe this is about “neutrality,” wake up and smell the coffee. This, like everything the Obots do, is about gathering power and money to themselves.
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