The Federal Register’s publication of The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s illegal Net Neutrality regulations happened this week. That is the final step towards their illegal implementation on November 20th.
The Federal Communications Commission on December 21st illegally voted themselves – in 3-2 Democrat Party-line fashion – Internet Overlords with their unauthorized imposition of the job-killing regulatory nightmare that is Network Neutrality.
The opposition to this unauthorized power grab was nearly universal. The D.C. Circuit Court had already unanimously ruled that the FCC had no authority to do it. The House of Representatives almost immediately passed to overturn the order a Congressional Review Act (CRA) Resolution of Disapproval. Lawsuits to undo the order were readied by (at least) Verizon, Metro PCS and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
This multi-front push to undo this power grab – which everyone and their mother saw coming – froze the FCC in its tracks. So the Commission slow-walked its illegal order’s illegal imposition. And to aid in so doing violated another law – engaging in the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) process after voting, rather than before. Now, more than nine months later, the FCC is finally about to give birth to its illegal Net Neutrality power grab.
It is now officially time for the Senate to do as the House did – pass the Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval. Thankfully, the serially obstructionist Senate Democrat Majority can’t filibuster the CRA; it requires only 51 votes to pass. But the Senate must pass the CRA – and President Barack Obama must sign it – by November 20th. Else the illegal, job-killing Net Neutrality power grab goes into terrible effect.
The Senate needs to immediately pass the CRA – and give President Obama the opportunity to put his pen where his deregulatory mouth has been. He’s talked a good game, let’s now see if he’ll put those words into action – and sign the CRA so as to kill this illegal, job-killing Net Neutrality order.
Could a class-action lawsuit be filed to stop it?
Give them a taste of their own medicine, ignore it, just like they are ignoring the law and the will of the people.
I agree, we should all start ignoring the bastards, and not just on the Net Neutrality issue.
How is net neutrality going to effect sites like this one? Does it effect providers only? Publishers? I have to admit it is a bit mysterious to me, but I do know attempts at censorship when I see them.
“The D.C. Circuit Court had already unanimously ruled that the FCC had no authority to do it.” Why don’t the affected carriers simply get the court to grant an injunction to stop the FCC? So unless the court is going to reverse itself why all of the drama? With an injunction in place I rather doubt the FCC officials in charge of implementing the ruling would risk contempt of court charges.
passive aggressive Just don’t do it…how do they expect to “enforce” something the courts said they can’t even do? If they fine you, don’t pay. If they try to arrest you show them the court ruling and tell ‘em you sue for false arrest.
The only reason the Tea Party became a force is because conservatives actually have gained three alternative means of getting “news” and the “other side of the story” that have been withheld from the American people for fifty nears: Fox, Talk Radio and the internet (thanks be to algore). These have only been around for the last 15 years or so, but we finally can see how we’ve been manipulated and lied to and propagandized by the left in this country.
The war against Fox fizzled when Wiretapgate in Britain failed to gain any traction here, but the left will not stop trying to drive them in their direction. The “Fairness Doctrine” has gained such a negative connotation that they won’t try to implement it as such, but the FCC is trying to gain control of Talk Radio via the backdoor with other regulations, a committee to provide “oversight” stacked with leftists, and the concept of “community accountability” enforced by local committees also packed with ACORN-like representatives.
The internet has been a key factor – without it we would not have actual investigative, real journalism looking at the left and its tentacles in mainstream media, politics, Hollywood and academia. It has provided a means to communicate and organize that the right never had before. Without it, the Tea Parties would not exist.
Now they want to stop that as well. This “net neutrality” is a fig-leaf, a Trojan horse, to get the left’s nose under the internet tent, to supposedly fix a problem that doesn’t even exist yet.
Sorry if I’m not fully understanding the problem here, but doesn’t net neutrality prohibit the internet providers from blocking or slowing down access to sites they don’t want you to access? Isn’t this a good thing? Why is it bad that Time Warner won’t be able slow down my access to PJTV videos? or that they can’t block my access to conservative websites? Is there something else here I’m missing?
I’m right there with you, having trouble seeing how preventing ISPs from limiting the flow of information is a bad thing.
@1: “Could a class-action lawsuit be filed to stop it?”
I’m sorry, citizen, but you don’t have “standing” to sue. Nor does any member of congress.
Nor does any presidential candidate.
Truth is, if you’re wanting to sue government for a policy pushed by the Left, *nobody* has standing to sue.
On the other hand, if you’re a Democrat/liberal/”progressive” and want to sue a conservative state like Arizona, we’re behind ya all the way.
See, the law has to be interpreted–by us–to be correctly applied. So naturally different plaintiffs have different rules. Simple.