Tuesday, February 24, 2015

FROM INTERNET TO OBAMANET:
'FUTURE OF ENTIRE INTERNET AT STAKE'...



◼ Obama’s Move To Regulate Internet Has Activists’ ‘Fingerprints All Over It’ - Daily Caller
◼ Three days before the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on the most significant Internet regulations in history, two commissioners are asking Chairman Tom Wheeler to delay the vote and release his proposal to the public. - Giuseppe Macri/Daily Caller Via Drudge
“We respectfully request that FCC leadership immediately release the 332-page Internet regulation plan publicly and allow the American people a reasonable period of not less than 30 days to carefully study it,” Republican Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly said in a statement Monday. “Then, after the commission reviews the specific input it receives from the American public and makes any modifications to the plan as appropriate, we could proceed to a final vote.”
◼ FCC chief pressed to release net neutrality rules - USA Today
◼ Obama's regs will make Internet slow as in Europe, warn FCC, FEC commissioners - Paul Bedard/Washington Examiner
◼ From Internet to Obamanet - Wall St. Journal

Critics of President Obama’s “net neutrality” plan call it ObamaCare for the Internet.

That’s unfair to ObamaCare.

Both ObamaCare and “Obamanet” submit huge industries to complex regulations. Their supporters say the new rules had to be passed before anyone could read them. But at least ObamaCare claimed it would solve long-standing problems. Obamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken.

No one, including the bullied FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, thought the agency would go this far. The big politicization came when President Obama in November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply the agency’s most extreme regulation to the Internet. A recent page-one Wall Street Journal story headlined “Net Neutrality: How White House Thwarted FCC Chief” documented “an unusual, secretive effort inside the White House . . . acting as a parallel version of the FCC itself.”

Congress is demanding details of this interference.



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