FCC commissioner: Get ready for a government takeover of the Internet

Ed Morrissey Hot Air 2/6/2015

Call it the largest plan for government regulation that no one can read — at least, the largest in almost five years. This time, though, even Congress can’t read it yet, even if they were so inclined. The plan comes from FCC chair Tom Wheeler, and it imposes Barack Obama’s […]

The government wants to study ‘social pollution’ on Twitter

Ajit Pai Opinion The Washington Post 10/17/2014

If you take to Twitter to express your views on a hot-button issue, does the government have an interest in deciding whether you are spreading “misinformation’’? If you tweet your support for a candidate in the November elections, should taxpayer money be used to monitor your speech […]

Net Neutrality III

Seton Motley The Daily Caller 5/5/2014

The Barack Obama Administration is back at it — yet another big government power grab is in the works.

The Administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) again resurrecting Network Neutrality — an all-encompassing Internet usurpation twice unanimously killed by court as an illegal overreach.

Court Backs Comcast Over FCC on […]

FCC targets black conservative in TV station fight

Phillip Swarts The Washington Times 3/10/2014

For years, the Federal Communications Commission has allowed TV stations to execute joint operating agreements allowing themselves to outsource tasks such as advertising sales to group owners with more resources.

But when conservative columnist and entrepreneur Armstrong Williams recently purchased two stations, making him one of America’s few black […]

Americans rising up against government

Three examples of pushback against the ruling class.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds Opinion USA Today 2/23/2014

America’s ruling class has been experiencing more pushback than usual lately. It just might be a harbinger of things to come…

…in Connecticut a massive new gun-registration scheme is also facing civil disobedience. As J.D. Tuccille reports:

“Three years ago, […]

Why do so many liberals want to suppress political speech?

Michael Barone The Washington Examiner 2/23/2014

The knee jerk response of many liberals to political attacks seems to be to suppress such speech. Examples abound. Michigan Rep. Gary Peters, running for the Senate, threatens the broadcast licenses of stations that run ads criticizing him. Over at salon.com Fred Jerome imagines what it would be like […]

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