Posted: 2/27/2015 Updated: 2/28/2015
The Responsibility
It is now the responsibility of each member of the U.S. Congress to explicitly remove any authority from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over the Internet. Anyway, the FCC clearly usurped authority when it voted for the net neutrality nonsense.
The authority of the FCC is based on the Communications Act of 1934 and subsequent amendments. This is a law passed during the most socialist era in the history of the United States.
The Law
The members of the U.S. Congress need to be reminded that they already passed laws to keep the Internet free and open to market competition.
See Title 47 U.S. Code - Telecommunications - § 230 - Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material:
“(b) Policy
It is the policy of the United States—
(1) to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media;
(2) to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation;”
President Obama has been repeatedly reported in the media to be some kind of a legal professor or scholar specialized in constitutional law. Well, lawyers are often the worst offenders of law.
The Internet
The Internet would have never developed so spectacularly and fast had government not stayed away as it did.
The Internet is not a government run utility and it should never become one!
The Internet is something built by all all the people and businesses of the world. It is truly transnational and global! To think that any national bureaucracy could impose power and control over it like the FCC now has attempted is ludicrous.
