Post Tagged with: "internet"

February 7, 2011 07:54

FCC Commissioners: FCC Lacks Authority to Regulate the Internet

Two of the five commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that the Commission lacks the legal authority to regulate the Internet, predicting that the recent regulations issued by the commission in December will be struck down in federal court.

January 31, 2011 17:44

The Internet Kill Switch – One Of The Favorite New Tools Of Tyrannical Governments All Over The Globe

[L]egislation has been introduced once again in Congress that would give the president of the United States an “Internet kill switch” that he would be able to use in the event of war or emergency. Of course there would be a whole lot of wiggle room in determining what actually constitutes a true “emergency”.

January 3, 2011 10:39

Five Things We Should Worry about in 2011

The mid-term elections were a rejection of President Obama’s big-government agenda, but those results don’t necessarily mean better policy. We should not forget, after all, that Democrats rammed through Obamacare even after losing the special election to replace Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts.

December 30, 2010 08:19

Free internet and computers with your tax dollars

Tampa Housing Authority has secured a $2.1 million federal grant to provide broadband Internet access to 23 public housing sites. The program also will help residents get computers of their own by offering 1,000 computers for only $125 and will install almost 200 computers in two communities to offer residents a designated work space.

December 20, 2010 15:14

The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom by an FCC commissioner

On this winter solstice, we will witness jaw-dropping interventionist chutzpah as the FCC bypasses branches of our government in the dogged pursuit of needless and harmful regulation. The darkest day of the year may end up marking the beginning of a long winter’s night for Internet freedom.

November 24, 2010 10:30

Seizing the Internet

The Obama FCC’s last ditch effort to ram through “net neutrality” — amid some dubious Democrat lobbying.

November 24, 2010 06:58

Rush finally waking up to Net Neutrality push by FCC

In what may be too little too late Limbaugh joins much of the public in realizing that the FCC plan called ‘Net neutrality’ is a backdoor way to censor the internet. Rush should have been reading usACTIONnews.com for the last 9 months that we’ve been warning about it.

October 14, 2010 05:58

Internet Freedom Under Siege

The next phase of Islamist lawfare may well center directly upon the internet itself.

September 18, 2010 09:13

High speed internet now a civil right?

Only leftist progressives could justify taking property (your money) by force (tax laws) to give high speed internet to others. What if you do without something so you can have internet or what if you don’t want internet in your home?

August 14, 2010 07:07

Protesters denounce Google plan for ‘two-tier internet’

Protesters outside the famed Googleplex said this would create a “pay-to-play” service and urged Google to live up to its famous motto “don’t be evil”. But do they know what is really going on?