FCC will use “Child Access to Porn” as Basis of Power Grab of Internet Control; DeMint Mounts Challenge

Pledging to fight an “Internet takeover,” Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) announced on Thursday that he will introduce legislation to weaken the “activist bureaucracy” at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after the agency moved toward boosting its authority over broadband service providers at a morning meeting.

Blasting the FCC’s decision as a “power grab,” DeMint called for a neutered FCC govered by sun-sets on regulations and slowed by new standards for agency action.

“Obama’s FCC is now changing the rules to takeover and tax the Internet,” DeMint said, calling the commission’s latest move an example “of government agencies overstepping their bounds and creating their own laws without Congressional authority.”

DeMint bases his bill on legislation he introduced in 2005 to comprehensively update communications law, a process that last occurred in 1996.

For the full story: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/103997-demint-bill-would-gut-activist-prevent-internet-takeover

The Political System is Broke Because of the Internet

      These types of speeches are being given to give fuel to the “need” to control the Internet:

The deluge of information available on the Web has made the country ungovernable, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow.

“The political system is broken partly because of Internet,” Barlow said. “It’s made it impossible to govern anything the size of the nation-state. We’re going back to the city-state. The nation-state is ungovernably information-rich.”

Speaking at Personal Democracy Forum in New York on Thursday, Barlow said there is too much going on at every level in Washington, D.C., for the government to effectively handle everything on its plate. Instead, he advocated citizens organizing around the issues most important to them.

Barlow also said that President Barack Obama’s election, driven largely by small donations, has fundamentally changed American politics. He said a similar bottom-up structure is needed for governing as well.

“It’s not the second coming, everything won’t get better overnight, but that made it possible to see a future where it wasn’t simply a matter of money to define who won these things,” Barlow said. “The government could finally start belonging to people eventually.”

The full article: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/101273-john-perry-barlow-internet-has-broken-political-system

Congressman Circulates Lobbyist Letter Supporting Tighter FCC Control on Broadband

David Hatch of spots Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA)  circulating a letter pushing broadband regulation ghostwritten by a lobbyst:

A letter that Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., is circulating on Capitol Hill expressing gushing support for FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s controversial proposal to subject broadband to tougher regulation wasn’t written by the congressman.

How do we know? Digital fingerprints left by the author, Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, a media watchdog.

It’s common knowledge that advocacy groups and corporations routinely craft letters and even legislation for lawmakers. But it’s not every day they leave behind a trail of evidence confirming the link. Such is the case with Scott, who forgot to scrub the so-called “metadata” — yeah, I’d never heard of this either — listing him as the author of the correspondence making the rounds on the Hill.

Such information can be found by going to “file” and then “properties” on an electronic document. Inslee wants to gather the signatures of supportive members by COB Wednesday before sending the letter to Genachowski.

“As legislators committed to expanding access to open, affordable, world-class broadband networks,” reads the document, authored by someone who’s never held elected office, “we have a very strong interest in promoting policies that can support these goals.”

Dan Riehl adds:

It’s said he didn’t just get caught, but he also claimed to have written the letter himself, despite an electronic signature indicating otherwise. Don’t these guys get paid to do actual work? And should they really be letting lobbyists do it for them? I thought Democrats hated lobbyists? Hmm.

Oh sure. Almost as much as big business hates liberals.

for full article: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/05/10/gotcha-dem-congressman-circulates-letter-ghost-written-by-lobbyist/

Court Ruling Undermines FCC Plans for “Net Neutrality”

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a big victory for Comcast Corp., the nation’s largest cable company. It had challenged the FCC’s authority to impose so-called “net neutrality” obligations on broadband providers.

The ruling also marks a serious setback for the FCC, which is trying to officially set net neutrality regulations. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski argues that such rules are needed to prevent phone and cable companies from using their control over Internet access to favor some online content and services over others.

The decision also has serious implications for the massive national broadband plan released by the FCC last month. The FCC needs clear authority to regulate broadband in order to push ahead with some its key recommendations, including a proposal to expand broadband by tapping the federal fund that subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural communities.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_internet_rules;_ylt=AkMl8M7uYGZl5xKAZxuDvFys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNwYmhsa2M0BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNDA2L3VzX3RlY19pbnRlcm5ldF9ydWxlcwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzUEcG9zAzIEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawN1c2NvdXJ0cnVsZXM

The Next Basic Right: Internet Access

http://www.technewsdaily.com/us-considers-internet-access-for-all-100128-0115/

 

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Broadband providers such as AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. argue that after pouring billions of dollars into their networks, they should be able to operate those networks as they see fit. That includes offering premium services over their lines to differentiate themselves from competitors and earn a healthy return on their investments.

Genachowski’s proposal has also encountered misgivings among Republicans on the FCC and in Congress, who fear network neutrality rules could discourage broadband providers from continuing to expand and upgrade their systems.

“The risk of regulation really inhibits investment,” said Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell. Noting the agency’s estimated price tag of up to $350 billion to bring broadband connections to all Americans, he added: “How do we pay for all that?”

One thing everyone agrees on is that the FCC will have to sort through some tricky issues as Genachowski’s plan moves forward.

One question is how much flexibility broadband providers should have to keep their networks running smoothly by ensuring that high-bandwidth applications such as YouTube videos don’t hog too much capacity and impede other traffic like e-mail and online searches. In other words, when does legitimate network management cross the line to become discrimination?

Lawrence Spiwak, president of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Policy Studies, a think tank that promotes free-market approaches, fears the FCC could hurt small, rural carriers that face higher costs to build out their systems. Without the ability to manage traffic, he said, these companies could be forced to make expensive network upgrades they cannot afford.

The FCC also needs to sort out how the rules would apply to wireless systems, which have less bandwidth capacity than wire-based networks and might have greater need for traffic management. AT&T, the exclusive U.S. carrier for Apple Inc.’s iPhone, already is running into capacity challenges given the popularity of the gadget and its scores of bandwidth-consuming applications.

“There could be unintended consequences of applying net neutrality to wireless,” said Christopher Guttman-McCabe, vice president of regulatory affairs for CTIA-The Wireless Association, an industry trade group.

Genachowski’s plan calls for the agency to formally adopt four broadband principles that have guided the FCC’s enforcement of communications laws on a case-by-case basis. Those principles state that network operators must allow subscribers to access all online content, applications, services and devices as long as they are legal.

For the full story: http://cbs11tv.com/politics/FCC.Net.Neutrality.2.1256673.html

Internet security is no longer for the paranoid only.  James Lakely recently wrote, here on AT, an article about our New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, and his desire to quell the internet.  This was followed by another AT article regarding Obama’s Czar of Chillin’. What we need are methods and means to deal with such threats.  How to hide in plain sight, or encrypt and obscure information.

Therefore, to assist fellow patriots in the War on Freedom that is coming out of Washington DC, I propose you begin to construct your own Counterintelligence Tool bag.   This topic is quite broad, and this is not a how-to or treatise, merely something to get you thinking in the right direction.

See American Thinker for the full article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/internet_security_in_the_age_o.html#

     The controversial “diversity czar” (Controversial- aren’t they all) cannot give interviews. FCC “Staffers” are not permitted to give interviews.

     If Mr. Lloyd were permitted to be interviewed, he might say something like:

“We understood at the beginning, and were certainly reminded in the course of the campaign,” wrote Lloyd, ”that our work was not simply convincing policy makers of the logic or morality of our arguments. We understood that we were in a struggle for power against an oppenent, the commercial broadcasters ….”

Or, maybe this:

“We looked to successful political campaigns and organizers as a guide, especially the civil rights movement, Saul Alinsky, and the campaign to prevent the Supreme Court nomination of the ultra-conservative jurist Robert Bork,”"From those sources we drew inspiration and guidance.”

For full FCC-Lloyd Gag story: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/10/cover-up-fcc-puts-gag-order-on-radical.html

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