From TheWeeklyStandard.com:
Why Can’t the Public See Obama’s Proposed Internet Regulations?
by Mark Hemingway
Republican senators Mike Lee, Ben Sasse, and Rand Paul have all been high profile opponents of the Obama administrations current plan to regulate the internet — in particular, Lee has called the regulation a government “takeover” of the internet and says it amounts to a “a massive tax increase on the middle class, being passed in the dead of night without the American public really being made aware of what is going on.”
And when Lee says that the American public isn’t aware of what’s going on, that is in no way hyperbole. FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has emerged as a hero for those opposed to the regulation because Pai has been taking to the airwaves decrying the fact that the public is not allowed to see 332 pages of proposed internet regulation before they are potentially passed.
As with Obamacare, we have to “pass the bill before we can know what’s in it.”
After all of this, why are people in the media so terribly incurious?
No transparency. That is the hallmark of the Obama Administration.
Interesting adjunct articles here:
1. The internet isn’t broken, Obama; why “fix” it?
2. Mark Cuban: net neutrality will “fuck everything up.”
BZ
I’m beginning to wonder when people like us will be shut down… Just sayin…
There’s only ONE reason for the government to “fix” the internet: CONTROL.
BZ
Yes, I think Obama learned it from China.
All I will say is that it is time to cast off technology. We pay a price and his regulations will clamp that down. I recall hearing him say when he first trespassed upon the white house that he wanted to eliminate the ability of people to post anonymous comments on news sites, blogs, etc. Now there ARE no public forums and very few blogs that do not require at least one, if not several identifiers. I am sure the regulations he will place on the internet, especially with the references to biometric identifiers, that everything we do will be recorded down to what color socks and underwear we have (or do not have) on.
Even cars. I have read articles that indicate that on many newer cars with computer and GPS systems that authorities can not only track vehicles but shut them down or even, in some cases, control throttle, braking and other electronically controlled features. Maybe even the steering. Since so many idiots are out there compounding the problem by using their smartphones, etc whilst driving, GONE COMPLETELY is our privacy, anonymity and free will to travel, communicate and freely ride the open road.
The only thing missing from our daily lives, as has been changed since 2008, is the panoramic view of concertina razor wire atop tall double chain-link fencing all around us.
With some of the sobering executive orders now in place, that is probably next.
At least George Orwell got a SMALL version of the future reality. If only he knew.