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Tech at Night: Tomorrow, Tomorrow

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  December 21st, 2010 at 12:15 AM  | 

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Tech at Night

Tomorrow, tomorrow, the FCC is meeting tomorrow, December 21. The key item on the agenda is Net Neutrality. So of course, The FCC couldn’t keep its website up. And they want to regulate the entire Internet?

What’s at stake? Socialist plans to remake all the mass media in America in the style of Hugo Chavez. Al Franken’s bulling tactics succeeding. And overall, an unprecedented power grab online.

Speaking of power grabs, Al Sharpton is pushing one in which Republican and conservative commentators will be dragged to the FCC for show trials. Amazing.

I wish I could say I’m skeptical the Obama FCC would listen to Sharpton. I wish I could. But given the runaway FCC’s proven track record of ignoring the Telecommunications Act and ignoring the courts, I won’t put anything past this FCC.

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  • spainishirish

    So this might get some traction. Of course, Sharpton himself can be dragged in front of House committees starting in January since he is on the Obama payroll and apparently directing the FCC, and I strongly urge that he be given a taste of what he wants to dole out.

  • NeoKong

    A federal appeals court and many members of Congress have said the FCC does not have the authority to do this.
    How can they defy the will of Congress….?
    Can’t they just haul him ( Genachowski)before a committee and ask him where he gets the balls to pull this blatant power grab?
    Can’t they defund him ?

    Another question.
    What if a internet provider like Comcast tells them to buzz off.
    What could they do ?

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    How can they defy the will of Congress?.?

    Easy. Since 20 January 2009 at noon, the current administration has been steadily making Congress irrelevant, building an impenetrable shell around The Constitution. Nudge.

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    Can?t they just haul him ( Genachowski)before a committee and ask him where he gets the balls to pull this blatant power grab?

    After the next Congress is seated, then The House can.

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    Can?t they defund him ?

    After the next Congress is seated, then The House can, but there’d be an exec order generated within seconds restoring it all.

  • bobmontgomery

    Is this a ‘social’ issue or a ‘fiscal’ issue? Maybe RedState could invite some of our good Republican Senators and ostensible Presidential Candidates here to discuss and illustrate for us just how neatly we can compartmentalize and not talk about the social issues, and just keep things like Net Neutrality on a basic technical or personal freedom basis. Wait a minute! Do ‘freedom’ issues have anything to do with ‘social’ issues? How about ‘self defense’? Or more broadly, National Defense? Need some clarification on where the ‘fiscal’ guys stand on National Defense and how it might possibly be affected by…….social issues? Surely not.
    Now on regulating the Internet, do all of you Ham and short-wave operators out there practice good Net Neutrality? Is yours a strictly social network, or is it about the nation’s business? Or is it anybody’s business?

  • NeoKong

    No one was trying to stop the power grabs.
    That’s going to change hopefully in two weeks if Tennesse Rep. Marsha Blackburn has anything to say about it.

    Industry and creative content providers who were coerced into this deal by an over zealous FCC Chairman should take heart. Like the breaking of dawn, the new Congress will prove a swift antidote to the federal bloodsucker you found at your throat this Christmas.

    She may have some help on this.

    Oh my.

    In May, the FCC leadership floated the idea of deeming complex and dynamic Internet services equivalent to old-fashioned monopoly phone services, thereby triggering price-and-terms regulations that originated in the 1880s. The announcement produced what has become a rare event in Washington: A large, bipartisan majority of Congress agreeing on something. More than 300 members of Congress, including 86 Democrats, contacted the FCC to implore it to stop pursuing Internet regulation and to defer to Capitol Hill.

    What I’m sort of getting at is where does this guy get the stones to think that he can just ignore a court ruling and a huge number of Congress people who have told him quite plainly his head is between his back pockets.
    He’s not the President.
    He is not a Secretary. His is not a cabinet position.
    He is a Chairman and answers to Congress and may soon be made aware of that.
    I think someone might be getting an embarrassing slap down for the Ano Novo.

  • avgjo

    Senators/Representatives are very fond of dragging regular folk before them for hearings. It is high time we hold them to account. We should pressure a meeting and demand things like you mentioned and like:

    why did you, Senator Coburn, fold to pass s-510 after all of your vociferous opposition to it?

    why did you, Senator Lugar, assent to amnesty for lawbreakers?

    Why did you, Senator Brown, vote to undermine our military?

    why did you, Senator Snowe, vote to get Obamacare out of committee?

    A nice intimate meeting, with about 300 ardent conservative activists, our current Senators, as well as good new ones like Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, who I believe would join us in our interro-, er, Q and A session with the wusses in the Senate.

    We really should try this.

  • cwilson

    The 1974 budget act removed this power from the presidency. Nobody has yet challenged it, fearing the Constitutional Crisis that would develop.

    This doesn’t mean Teh Won wouldn’t try it — and deliberately trigger that Crisis.

    Crises are GOOD; they shouldn’t be wasted — and should be spawned as often as possible, in this White House’s thinking. Crises let you “do things you wouldn’t ordinarily be able to do”.

  • bobmontgomery

    In some forum somewhere I suggested that the next Republican National Convention had better be a real one and it probably ought to convene about March and stay in session until labor day. I am not a strategist and I miss a lot but I didn’t miss that a lot of conservative activists told us we had to vote Republican and get others to help. Rush, moe, Erick (hope I don’t get thrown off here) didn’t promise heaven but said things would be a lot worse if we didn’t elect max Republicans. Well, probably, but, e.g., Scott Brown is already working on his re-election. I was enamored of Bob Dylan in my youth, but now we have a Senator from North Carolina crooning ‘the times they are a changin”. And this START thing.Oh, well, don’t get me started.