VIDEO: Obama's Private Sector – Winners Punished to Benefit Losers

Seton Motley | 7:35 AM on April 15, 2013

Welcome to inter-governmental ideological interloping.

The wireless smart phone Xanadu we are all thoroughly enjoying – requires spectrum. Which is the airwaves our phones use to allow us to surf the Web, watch movies, text, telephone, etc. – all from the palm of our hand. And we need much, much more of it in the hands of the people making all this possible.

But there’s good news: The President’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently preparing the rules for an upcoming spectrum auction.

And then there’s bad news: The President’s Justice Department late Friday demanded that the FCC rig the auction rules – and engage in government quota spectrum set asides rather than simply run a simple auction.

As this guerrilla video explains, this government-picking-losers-at-the-expense-of-winners is terrible for the future of our ongoing wireless revolution.

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Seton Motley is a writer, activist, commentator, consultant, political/policy strategist, lecturer, and the president of Less Government, an organization dedicated to... well, less government, including protecting the First Amendment from governmental assault.

He's also editor in chief of StopNetRegulation.org, a project of the Center for Individual Freedom.