
Mayor Bill de Blasio Supports Net Neutrality, Because of Income Inequality
Bill de Blasio comes out strongly in favor of Net Neutrality regulations he hasn’t read because, apparently, they’re all about the children. What could go wrong?

Bill de Blasio comes out strongly in favor of Net Neutrality regulations he hasn’t read because, apparently, they’re all about the children. What could go wrong?

The left-leaning ‘Electronic Frontier Foundation’ (EFF) came out with “guns-a-blazin’” Wednesday morning at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in an open letter: “Dear FCC: Rethink The Vague “General Conduct” Rule.”

Wednesday, fresh off her Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the FCC’s attempt to seize control of the internet by non-elected commissioners passing a 332-page secret plan, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the FCC is attempting to apply 1930’s era

Net neutrality activists are suddenly waking up and realizing that their dream would, in reality, be a nightmare.

Hillary Clinton says she supports the Obama administration’s attempts to impose net neutrality.

Hillary Clinton used a paid speaking engagement and subsequent question and answer session at a Silicon Valley conference for women Tuesday to begin testing out her policy positions prior to the expected launch of an official 2016 campaign for the White House.

The whiz kids of Silicon Valley are celebrating the GOP’s apparent collapse on Net Neutrality. The New York Times exults: “the little guys appear to have won.” It omits that the “little guys” are some of the richest people in America, and–by their own lights–the smartest. The odd thing is that the nerds who have an app for everythng seem to be unable to explain what Net Neutrality actually is, and why we need it. Case in point: Tuesday’s epic failure by Tumblr CEO David Karp on CNBC.

Tuesday at the Senate Republicans leadership press conference, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) warned February 26 could go down in history as the day the FCC took “carte blanche authority,” and imposed massive government regulations over the internet with a partisan vote

ObamaCare for the Internet, also known as “Net Neutrality,” is getting shoved down our throats the same way ObamaCare was. The plan remains secret from the public, while those promoting it talk about a more “free and open Internet” without bothering to explain how further government regulation would lead to that outcome.

An independent government regulator? The Obama administration isn’t clear on that concept, and the FCC is just the latest example of the administration’s overreach.

When asked what he felt was the worst aspect of the secret FCC plan Pai said, “Most perniciously, when you think about it, the FCC for the first time is going to start second guessing even what kind of service plan you have. And it explicitly mentions for example ‘T-Mobile Music Freedom,’ which allows you to steam music to your mobile device without counting against your data cap. The FCC explicitly tees that up as a practice it might end up outlawing.”

Last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler announced, via an op-ed in Wired, magazine, that the FCC would reclassify the American Internet infrastructure as a utility under Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1934.

Friday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” FCC commissioner Ajit Pai said President Barack Obama is about to succeed in his attempt to take “alarmingly unprecedented direct involvement” into the FCC’s plan to regulate the internet, which he explained
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) urged members of the public not to believe promises of “if you like your Internet, you can keep your Internet” in a speech on Thursday. Cruz declared “don’t mess with the Internet.” And asked “which has

The White House dropped a bombshell on Thursday by announcing that FCC already has the authority to take over regulating and taxing the Internet without Congressional approval.

The move for the government to control the Internet took an insidious new turn, as FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler implied he would push harsher regulations that would categorize Internet service providers as public utilities.

Here in California, we regularly use the ballot initiative process to govern ourselves. Often, when a well-funded special interest is trying to ram through a change to the state’s laws, the opposition screams that the measure is a “solution without a problem.” The FCC’s potential actions in regards to Title II and the Internet fall in the same category. No one is crying out to be freed from the shackles of anything, anywhere, anytime broadband service.