For all you supporters of “New Neutrality” - I toldya so!
FCC Commissioner: Feds May Come for Drudge
However, Pai (a Republican FCC Commissioner) said it was only the beginning. In the future, he said, “I could easily see this migrating over to the direction of content… What you’re seeing now is an impulse not just to regulate the roads over which traffic goes, but the traffic itself.
When will you leftists learn that
allow government to open the door just a little bit is an invitation for them to slam it open wide? I don't care what your excuses are, just because they claim it's to treat internet providers like public utilities doesn't mean it won't spread further.
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Prison Planet.com FCC Commissioner Feds May Come for Drudge
Anytime you let the government control something you can expect this kind of shit.
That liberals dont understand this is the real shocker.
Or maybe they do.....
I really agree with you both that Big Government has no place in controlling who you choose to marry or on your reproductive decisions.
And that has what to do with censorship?
I would say it has to do with letting the government control something. Once you say the government can control your personal life decisions, where does it stop?
The government has been "controlling" the broadcast dial since 1926. And in all that time, answering my own rhetorical question above, it has never restricted content, ever.
And it took on that role -- under Republicans FWIW -- because the open unregulated radio dial, new technology at the time, was chaos -- if you put a station on the air at 690 Kc with a hundred watts, I could put one on at a thousand watts. Then you could up to ten thousand. Et cetera, Chaos. The public interest was not being served. Enter the Federal Radio Commission which later changed its name to the FCC, to regulate the dial "in the public interest, convenience and necessity".
This idea that the evil FCC is going to suddenly do a 180 on 89 years of history and start tinkering with content where it never has before is akin to theories that Martians are spiking our water system to make us intergalactic slaves --- it
could happen, but....