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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

What's Even Worse than Net Neutrality? Government Internet Reclassification to Do It

The Administration’s Glove of Choice
 by Seton Motley, Contributing Author: We are almost six years into the Barack Obama Administration. This President has been almost undoubtedly the worst ever at exceeding his Constitutional authority.

A phone and a pen” are not magical - the President still has to adhere to the document to which he swore an oath. If he wants 2014 to be “a year of action,” he needs to find common ground with Congress and sign laws they pass. Not unilaterally jam us with dictatorial fiats.

There have already been too many such power grabs to even contemplate - and there are more, even larger ones coming.

Like, say, commandeering control of the World Wide Web. Behold Title II Reclassification.

The hardcore Media Marxist Left wants President Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to unilaterally change – for the worse - how the government regulates the Net. Which would be an egregious violation of existing law - the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

Which classified the Internet as Title I - a very light-touch regulatory regime. As happens when the government largely leaves something alone, the Internet has become a free speech-free market Xanadu. Arguably no endeavor in human history has grown so big, so well, so fast.

If ever there was an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” - this is it. Yet the perpetually broken government is listening to these Leftist loons - and considering the move to Title II.

Which is the uber-regulatory superstructure with which we have strangled landline phones - you know, that bastion of technological and economic innovation. Which do you find more impressive - your desktop dialer or your iPhone?

Title II regulations date back to the 1930s - so you know they’ll be a perfect fit for the ultra-modern, incredibly dynamic, expanding-like-the-universe World Wide Web.

This would be the hugest of all Information Superhighway road blocks. Rather than the omni-directional, on-the-fly innovation that now constantly occurs, Title II is a Mother-May-I-Innovate, top-down traffic congest-er. Imagine taking a sixteen lane Autobahn down to just a grass shoulder.

The FCC is looking to do all of this - so as to fabricate the “authority” to then impose Network Neutrality. Net Neutrality is Socialism for the Internet - it guarantees everyone equal amounts of nothing. A proponent explains it thus:
(T)he ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”How very Hugo Chavez of them. How very Veterans Administration. I’m fairly sure that’s not what Congress had in mind in 1996. Net Neutrality wasn’t even created as a concept until 2002 - it is utterly absurd to argue the law authorized something that didn’t even yet exist.

Has that stopped the FCC? Of course not. They have already twice imposed it – and twice the DC Circuit has unanimously rejected it. The FCC’s response is to now consider a Title II overreach that is light years beyond these previous power grabs.

Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Latta has filed to prevent FCC Reclassification. That his bill is wholly redundant of the 1996 Act demonstrates just how far from the Constitution the Leviathan has strayed.

Reclassification is in fact bipartisan unpopular. The FCC considered it in 2010. Seventeen minority groups – that are almost always in Democrat lockstep - were opposed. Many additional normally Democrat paragons were also, including:
  • The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
  • The Urban League.
  • The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
  • The Minority Media and Telecom Council (MMTC).
  • The Sierra Club.
  • The AFL-CIO.
  • The Communications Workers of America (CWA).,
  • If The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
Yet with this near-unanimous cross-section of opposition, with the law and Reality all arrayed against them - the FCC presses on to the biggest of all possible Internet power grabs. The Leviathan is relentless.
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Seton Motley is the President of Less Government and he contributes to ARRA News Service. Please feel free to follow him on  Twitter  /  Facebook

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