You fought well and had a real shot. It was fun. Better luck next year, despite Ned getting re-upped.
It’s not just state Governors who oppose Net Neutrality. Democrats of all stripes are jumping on against it, finds Ben Smith at Politico.
If you haven’t been watching this one, here’s the summary. The FCC meets on Oct. 22 to propose rules for keeping the Internet open and non-discriminatory as it should be. AT&T and Verizon have been pulling out everything they have to make sure the proposed rules are as weak as possible. They rounded up House GOP leadership, House Republicans. Senate Republicans. The ever-turncoat Communications Workers of America. Minority Groups. You name it, things are bombing into the FCC like nothing I’ve seen ever, and I’ve been watching this a long time.
We’re winning. Let’s keep shooting.
I don’t how else to describe this. I’m not being hyperbolic, I’m not criticizing her just because I’ve endorsed her opponent, and I’m not hyperventilating. I just read this article and those are the words that came to my mind.
Just read what she told VentureBeat:
Asked what she thought about regulation of the web, she said it was inevitable that there would be more regulation of it. Why, for instance, is there no protection of women and children on the Internet, when there is plenty in real life. She said this duality — where anything goes on the wild wild west of the Internet — would have to end.
We cannot ever seriously entertain the possibility that this woman would ever represent the Republican party in any official capacity, ever. This kind of reflexive anti-Constitutional nanny-statism cannot be tolerated. If we wanted that, we’d vote Democrat.
As we have covered before in this space, the far left does anything possible to avoid having a straight-up, honest debate over ideas. Much like the old Communists and Fascists on the streets of Weimar-era Berlin, they’d rather use muscle than ideas to get a victory.
As we’re all aware, one of the current targets is Glenn Beck. In particular, Free Press wants to make him out as a paranoid McCarthyite.
Supposedly he’s seeing socialists, Marxists, and communists everywhere. Even though Senator McCarthy was right, and Communists had infiltrated our government all the way up to Alger Hiss, we’re supposed to think badly of Red hunting. But let’s look at the people themselves at Free Press, leading special interest promoter of the Fairness Doctrine, ownership diversity rules, and of course Net Neturality. Are they as socialist as Beck thinks?
Let’s start with Free Press Staff shocked at the Socialist menace alleged by Beck. Any socialists hiding under the rocks there?
- Megan Tady has a track record of working for places like In These Times, which billed itself as “The Independent Socialist Newspaper”. Are we to believe she was the contrarian influence there, and not another good Socialist?
- Or how about Lindsy Embree? She was, I’m told, a volunteer for The Catholic Worker, an expressly anti-“capitalist” organization that counted as its ally the Industrial Workers of the World. Surely they’re not Communist, he asked sarcastically?
- Finally there’s Alex Kahn, whose CV includes the dynamite claim of a BA in “Social Thought and Political Economy” from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a degree would have had taken him through a course list with entries like “Black Marxism” and “Marxian Economics.” Did he suffer though all that while disagreeing with the Marxist agenda he was studying? Not likely.
Perhaps these buffoons should have looked in the mirror to find the socialists Beck speaks of? Or maybe they could have talked to the top brass in the office:
- Robert McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, is on the board of Monthly Review, which says of itself that “From the first Monthly Review spoke for socialism and against U.S. imperialism, and is still doing so today.”
- Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press, who voluntarily worked as a staffer for Bernie Sanders, the self-described Independent Socialist in Congress.
- Of course Van Jones was a board member of Free Press; funny how Free Press fails to mention in their hagiographical video about him, that he has a tie with that group. And in 2008 he was quite open about his plans to use “green” economics as a first step towards ending all “capitalism.” He also compared himself with Rosa Parks, saying her first step against Jim Crow was just like his first step against capitalism.
So tell us, again, why we shoudln’t think socialists are all over Free Press, when Free Press sends a trio of Socialists to mock the claim, and has socialists all the way to the top?
While the far left links up from Google to Free Press to the FCC to the White House, mainstream Republicans and Democrats alike are beginning to understand why we must defeat the FCC’s Net Neutrality plans.
I have copies of letters sent to FCC Chairman Genachowski by Democrats and Republicans alike, asking the FCC not to go ahead with the proposals. Democrat Governors Beebe of Arkansas, Henry of Oklahoma, Markell of Delaware, Nixon of Missouri, O’Malley of Maryland, Parkinson of Kansas, Perdue of North Carolina, and Rendell of Pennsylvania as well as Republican Governors Barbour of Mississippi, Brewer of Arizona, Perdue of Georgia, Perry of Texas, and Riley of Alabama all question the FCC’s planned actions. Attorney General Bruning of Nebraska, the National Foundation for Women Legislators, the National Conference of State Legislatures also have expressed such doubts.
This is an incredible coalition to have emerged. This is America’s mainstream standing up to the special interests which have wormed their way deep into the Obama administration, corporations fighting other corporations for control of the Internet.
We need the FCC to stand aside and allow freedom to flourish.
Chuck DeVore was a guest on Laura Ingraham’s radio program on Friday. She seems supportive of him in his primary fight against Carly Fiorina, in addition to in the general against Barbara Boxer.
Conservatives across the country are starting to see that Chuck DeVore is the choice for California. He’s a fighter who’s right on the issues and holds are best chance of winning.
The time is coming that the left is going to begin its drive for Single Payer Internet, and so the time has come for us to fight back. Finland is gradually nationalizing the Internet and declaring use of other people’s Internet hardware a “right,” and the left is cheering. Obama’s “Internet Czar” does not hide the left’s hopes for an end to freedom and markets for Internet service.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, President Barack Obama, and the rest of the radical left want to use the Net Neutrality movement as the crisis that gives cover to sweeping big government action, allowing the FCC to pick winners and losers and dictate to private individuals and firms how their private property must be run, putting government bureaucrats in charge of the Internet.
The dangers of the administration’s Net Neutrality plans are not theoretical:
Innovation will suffer, and America will no longer house the leading edge of the Internet technology. Wealth will be redistributed, as cash-rich, massive market valued Internet firms will bully and get a free ride on capital-intensive, smaller market valued telecommunications firms. Government will be deeply entrenched and be a costly burden to anyone who conducts business or pleasure on the Internet. One of the drivers of American economic growth will be crippled in a time when we most need new jobs.
Last, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell warns of Internet censorship to come as Genachowski’s sweeping regulations would provide the basis for an Internet “Fairness Doctrine.” He sees what’s going on at the FCC and knows what it is capable of. Some conservatives have signed onto radical socialist groups like Save the Internet because they were led to believe that telecoms would censor them, when in fact they’ve jumped from the frying pan of big corporations to the fire of big government censorship. One can always get a new ISP in a competitive market if a particular firm becomes anti-Christian, anti-2nd Amendment, or anti-Republican in general. Choosing a new government is less practical.
Therefore, now is the time to act. We must tell the FCC to get its hands off of the Internet, allow competition to rule, and to protect the Internet from any threats to our first amendment rights. Everywhere government has taken an active role as Internet Nanny, such as in Australia or the People’s Republic of China, freedom and prosperity have suffered.
Please, Contact the FCC. Let’s flood the system letting them know our opposition to their plans. Google thinks we’ll believe their Orwellian formulation that an Internet under greater regulation will be more open. We know better. Let’s speak up.
20 House members are calling for the FCC to regulate Google Voice, in a parallel of similar calls for the FCC to regulate ISPs.
I’m going to go make some popcorn, because it’s going to be a blast as Google shreds the principles of non-discrimination and transparency when they apply to itself, but then promotes them when they apply to others.
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Today was ‘Spend as much time with the nephew as I can’ day, so proper posts on these weren’t going to happen:
Don’t just take my word for it that the ‘Net Neutrality’ – as being pushed by the FCC Chairman and the left – would be bad. CMU Professor David Farber agrees and says Chairman Genachowski’s ideas would harm innovation. If government bureaucrats can dictate how we run our networks, then we won’t be able to innovate in how we run our networks, and everyone suffers in the long run. America will fall behind in Internet technology.
The Heartland Institute has more on Google hiring a former Free Press and current Senate staffer as its head of lobbying. Heartland is also bearing direct attacks attempting to shout it down. The left is not open to debate on this. They will make personal attacks on anyone who disagrees. We, in turn, must stop them.