Seizing the Internet
The Obama FCC’s last ditch effort to ram through “net neutrality” — amid some dubious Democrat lobbying.
The Prowler at American spectator
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Staffers at the Federal Communications Commission with ties to the commission’s chairman, Julius Genachowski, coordinated media and strategy planning with senior Free Press and MoveOn.org officials in the run up to Genachowski’s announcement that he would be seeking an FCC vote on imposing so-called “net neutrality” rules on broadband and the Internet, and doing so when Congress is out of session during the Thanksgiving and Christmas recesses.
This is the left’s attempt to rein in things like Fox News, Pajamas Media, Internet radio broadcasts for Limbaugh and Levin — anything that is data-related or video-related that requires some high-tech network management would be degraded or limited by the imposition of net neutrality.”
A number of current FCC officials have ties to Free Press, including Jen Howard, currently spokesperson for Genachowski, who formerly was a spokesperson for Free Press.
As it stands, the FCC will release the planned rulemaking for net neutrality while Congress is out of town on Thanksgiving recess, and would vote on the rules on December 21, when Congress is on Christmas recess. “In short, they are doing this in such a way that it is rubbing our noses in it,” says a Republican staffer on House Energy and Commerce. “Unless folks just rise up and make noise about this, there isn’t much we can do until after the new year when we get back and have control of the committee.”
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