Why does the Left want the government to take over the internet? For the same reasons that Barack Obama and Ajit Pai’s predecessors at the FCC tried to put their cops into newsrooms around the country: to control what Americans read, hear, view, and think.
The ability to secure and protect a patent allows innovators the tools they need to deliver groundbreaking innovations that change the way we live and strengthen our standing in the world. It is vital that we continue to protect a patent system that has served our nation extraordinarily well since our founding. In fact, we must never forget that the only “right” actually conferred in the body of the U.S. Constitution is the “exclusive Right … of Authors and Inventors … to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”
Eighteen years ago the American public told Congress that enough was enough. The nightly news ran stories about rampant welfare fraud and how people had turned the federal safety net into a permanent cash cow. But if anything, the polemics
