Showing posts with label FCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FCC. Show all posts
Saturday, February 28, 2015
FCC's Creepy Spectacle at Net Neutrality Vote
By Truthstream Media
Did you hear FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's weird speech after Net Neutrality passed? Did you see this picture of the commission members holding hands? The lobbyist and fervid (yes, fervid) Obama supporter running things over there is acting like he just walked on the moon while single-handedly saving everyone from a giant asteroid and cancer on the same day, all because a "majority" of three out of a panel of five unelected bureaucrats have closed the final frontier of the Internet, thus opening it up to more monopolies, price hikes, and worse, government regulation and censorship. Yay oligarchical collectivism!
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Action Alert! Keep the Internet FREE from FCC Regulation
Activist Post
Following Internet Slowdown day on September 10, millions of people and businesses across the Web continue taking action against transforming the Internet from a level playing field to a tiered system of privileged access.
There are many threats to our free and open Internet access, and we have made great strides in preventing some of them, but we need to be louder than ever now. For those who might not be familiar with what is at stake please read the following link, which contains a key video as well:
Quite simply, the FCC (government) proposal to "allow" fast lanes is a red herring designed to scare the public into giving them authority over the Internet. This is the last group that should ever wield such power.
Please click the banner above or below to sign American Commitment’s petition to Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the FCC —and tell him that the American people won’t stand for a federal takeover of the Internet. A.C. will send a copy of your petition to your Congressman too — just so that they know where their constituents stand in the fight to stop these crippling Internet regulations.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
FCC's pay-as-you-go Internet plan raises video, access questions
Washington Post
As details emerge about the Federal Communications Commission's controversial proposal for regulating Internet providers, a provision that would allow companies to bill customers for how much they surf the Web is drawing special scrutiny.
Analysts say pay-as-you-go Internet access could put the brakes on the burgeoning online video industry, handing a victory to cable and satellite TV providers.
The practice is legal, but had been discouraged by the FCC and by protests from consumers and public interest groups. But wireless companies are moving rapidly in that direction - all major cellphone providers offer subscribers tiered data plans for Internet service. AT&T doesn't offer flat-rate wireless plans for new customers.
And although FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said last week that his so-called net-neutrality proposal would generally prohibit broadband service providers from tampering with Internet traffic, he added that he is open to new billing models that charge by how much data a user consumes.
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Age of Censorship and Internet Trade Wars
The Trust Crisis with Regulating Net Neutrality
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The Trust Crisis with Regulating Net Neutrality
Since it was reported that Google and Verizon are close to a deal on so-called "net neutrality," the policy debate has heated up in Washington. Of course the debate has very little to do with the actual mechanics of how net neutrality will work, rather who will get the control to regulate it.
However, now that the FCC has abandoned negotiations on a "net neutrality" compromise, it is looking like the Congress will ultimately establish the rules -- handed down to them by their corporate masters. It seems the Elite's fight over who controls the dial has been decided. One thing is for sure, whoever controls the speed dial on the Internet will control the entire Web and subsequently all flow of information.
This is where the problem lies: the American people don't have any trust in their government, regulatory agencies, or corporations. In fact, it seems that these three entities typically work in unison to establish profit and power guarantees that can only be described as monopolistic cartels where power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We the people have lost our voice in nearly all legislation or regulation debates. And doing away with net neutrality -- the people's last bastion of free speech -- is the endgame for the power of the people.
Why do we need Net Neutrality protections? What is Net Neutrality?
Yes, broadband companies have real bandwidth concerns, and the telecom industry is losing money to the likes of Skype and Vonage. It is also looking like cable companies and video stores are nearly obsolete because of the expansion of the Internet. But we, the little guy, the blogger, the info-warrior, the casual web-surfer don't really give a shit about that. What we care about is free neutral access to all information and our privacy while getting that information.
It's unfortunate that those industries couldn't adapt fast enough to take advantage of the free market the Web has to offer. Just like the free market collapsed on General Motors and the banks, that tends to happen when the free market rejects your activities. In a real fee market those companies would die, and others in the industry would either adapt or end up just like them. That is how the free market self-regulates.
Globalist and heavyweight propagandist Rupert Murdoch is so confident that people will soon be forced to pay more for information, that he's already built in the pay infrastructure to his media empire's websites.
Back when Murdoch first announced these plans, which were going to limit the sharing of content from his sites, Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, publicly made fun of him saying, "he obviously doesn't know how the Internet works."
That may be true, but given his status in Elite circles, I'm willing to bet he knows exactly how it'sgoing to work once the new control grid is in place.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
FCC push to regulate news draws fire
The Hill
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) pushed back on Monday against a contention by a Democratic FCC commissioner that the government should create new regulations to promote diversity in news programming.
Barton was reacting to a proposal made last week by FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who in a speech suggested that broadcasters be subject to a new "public values test" every four years.
"I hope … that you do not mean to suggest that it is the job of the federal government, through the [FCC], to determine the content that is available for Americans to consume,” Barton wrote Monday in a letter to Copps.
Copps had suggested that the test would make a broadcaster's license renewal contingent upon proof that they meet a prospective set of federal criteria.
He said outlets should be mandated to do the following: prove they have made a meaningful commitment to public affairs and news programming, prove they are committed to diversity programming (for instance, by showing that they depict women and minorities), report more to the government about which shows they plan to air, require greater disclosure about who funds political ads and devote 25 percent of their prime-time coverage to local news.
The regulations would apply to all news outlets operating on the public airwaves.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Rockefeller Wants Government to Shut Down Fox and MSNBC
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
November 18, 2010
Infowars.com
November 18, 2010
Senator Jay Rockefeller, great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller and nephew of David Rockefeller, wants to yank both Fox News and MSNBC off the air.
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| “I hunger for quality news, I’m tired of the right and left,” Rockefeller said. | |
“There is a bug inside of that wants to get the FCC to say to Fox News and MSNBC… out, off,” he said during a hearing on retransmission negotiations between broadcasters and cable providers. “We have journalism that is always ravenous for the next rumor, but insufficiently hungry for the facts that can nourish our democracy.”
“I hunger for quality news, I’m tired of the right and left,” Rockefeller said.
He failed to mention that both networks are cable television channels and the FCC has little if any regulatory power over their content.
Millions of Americans have tuned out the false right-left paradigm of the corporate-dominated news channels in favor of alternative news sources on the internet. For the establishment, this trend is highly disturbing and must be turned back.
In March of 2009, Rockefeller said the internet is the “number one national hazard” to national security.
“It really almost makes you ask the question would it have been better if we had never invented the internet,” Rockefeller mused during the confirmation hearing of Gary Locke, Barry Obama’s choice for Commerce Secretary. He then cited a dubious figure of three million cyber “attacks” launched against the Department of Defense every day. “Everybody is attacked, anybody can do it. People say, well it’s China and Russia, but there could be some kid in Latvia doing the same thing.”
The former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and Obama’s current director Admiral Dennis C. Blair, agreed with Rockefeller about the internet and national security.
It is not likely the FCC will suddenly move to close down Fox and MSNBC, even if it had the power to do so. Both are prized Operation Mockingbird assets that specialize in disseminating government propaganda and perpetuating “democracy” ruled by bankers and transnational corporations.
Jay Rockefeller is apparently concerned with the tenor, not the content of corporate news. As a blue blood, Rockefeller is irritated by the guttersnipe character of what passes for mainstream news in this country.
Rockefeller’s comments once again demonstrate the arrogance of “elected officials” who believe they have the power to control large corporations like Government Motors and dictate what sort of news and even entertainment Americans should consume.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
November 30th Could Be the Day the Government Seizes Control of the Internet
Big Government
November 30th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could potentially engage in one of the largest federal power grabs we have ever seen.
After two years of this Presidential Administration and this Congress, that is saying an awful lot about an awful lot.
And what’s worse, the FCC would be doing it without Congress weighing in. At the FCC’s November meeting – note the coincidental date of choice, AFTER the impending election – three unelected bureaucrats (of five) could simply vote themselves rulers of 1/6th of our entire economy – the information and technology sector.
Meaning the Internet that you currently enjoy – that has been a marvel of economic and information innovation and success – will be subject to vast new governmental regulations. You didn’t elect these people – but they are on the verge of electing themselves Internet overlords.
The Internet is the future – and increasingly the present – of news and information delivery. With each passing day, we move a little further away from the old media models – print, broadcast and cable television, radio – and towards an all-Web world. Eventually, most or all of the news and information we get – written, and spoken into microphones and cameras – will be on and for the Internet.
And we are on the verge of having this new world – the all-encompassing future of First Amendment free speech in America – swallowed up by three unelected D.C. bureaucrats and their Commission.
This is one of the most important battles ever waged in Washington – and precious little is known about it outside the Beltway.
What we are talking about is Internet reclassification. What that means is the FCC – which by its own admission doesn’t have authority over the Web – would just vote itself said authority. By reclassifying the Internet – so that it would be subject to the same rules as landline telephones.
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