In All Fairness… (Waxman wants the internet too)
The American Spectator ^ | 2-16-09 | “The Prowler”
Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:16:39 PM by atomic conspiracy
…..The House Energy and Commerce Committee is also looking at how it can put in place policies that would allow it greater oversight of the Internet. “Internet radio is becoming a big deal, and we’re seeing that some web sites are able to control traffic and information, while other sites that may be of interest or use to citizens get limited traffic because of the way the people search and look for information,” says on committee staffer. “We’re at very early stages on this, but the chairman has made it clear that oversight of the Internet is one of his top priorities.”
“This isn’t just about Limbaugh or a local radio host most of us haven’t heard about,” says Democrat committee member. “The FCC and state and local governments also have oversight over the Internet lines and the cable and telecom companies that operate them. We want to get alternative views on radio and TV, but we also want to makes sure those alternative views are read, heard and seen online, which is becoming increasingly video and audio driven. Thanks to the stimulus package, we’ve established that broadband networks — the Internet — are critical, national infrastructure. We think that gives us an opening to look at what runs over that critical infrastructure.”
Also involved in “brainstorming” on “Fairness Doctrine and online monitoring has been the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, which has published studies pressing for the Fairness Doctrine, as well as the radical MoveOn.org, which has been speaking to committee staff about policies that would allow them to use their five to six million person database to mobilize complaints against radio, TV or online entities they perceive to be limiting free speech or limiting opinion.
“Internet radio is becoming a big deal, and we’re seeing that some web sites are able to control traffic and information, while other sites that may be of interest or use to citizens get limited traffic because of the way the people search and look for information,”
“The FCC and state and local governments also have oversight over the Internet lines and the cable and telecom companies that operate them. We want to get alternative views on radio and TV, but we also want to makes sure those alternative views are read, heard and seen online, which is becoming increasingly video and audio driven. Thanks to the stimulus package, we’ve established that broadband networks — the Internet — are critical, national infrastructure. We think that gives us an opening to look at what runs over that critical infrastructure.” (emphasis supplied)
This is breathtaking. Of course it is breathtaking because they want to censor the Internet which has done famously without the aid of the likes of Henry Waxman but by their “logic” as well: because search engines do not direct the seeker to a left-wing websites, the government must regulate. Notoriously, liberals want not equality of opportunity but equality of results. Set forth in bold the object is wittingly or unwittingly admitted: they want those alternative views to be “read”, “heard,” and “seen” online. The arrogance is breathtaking.
The arrogance does not stop there. These liberals claim jurisdiction over the Internet because the physical infrastructure of the Internet is planned to be subsidized by pork. But pork and these provisions are stealth provisions in a stealth law. This goes beyond arrogance and becomes a matter of deceit and borders on the criminal. If I were a civil matter it would be called fraud.
Has anyone read lately the bill of particulars against George III in the Declaration of Independence?
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