It’s official: Deem and Pass Internet regulation is the “Third Way”


It doesn’t matter that nearly all House Republicans are against it, and a good number of Democrats besides. It doesn’t matter that ATR is against it, CNBC warns it could “kill the Internet,” or that we just don’t need it.

The FCC has gone ahead and put out a Notice of Inquiry to go ahead with Deem and Pass reclassification of ISPs away from being “information services” under the law, which was the plainly obvious intent of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. You see, in Comcast v. FCC, the courts have strictly limited how much regulation the FCC can do of information services. So, the FCC is going to declare that ISPs are now phone companies, and regulate accordingly.

I’m sure for some of us I’m sounding horribly repetitive on this. I know myself I’ve typed variations on the above sentences more times than I can count. But those were just the warnings. It is now beginning to happen. They’re just calling it the “third way” and not “deem and pass” as I do.

But make no mistake: It’s the same thing, and the neo-Marxists behind it are overjoyed. For Free Press, “Third Way”/”Deem and Pass”/Title II reclassification is a step toward not just “Net Neutrality,” but the broader “media reform” they’re after. Media reform of course is what Free Press calls state run media in America. Think of it as single payer socialized medicine, only for news reporting.

Oddly enough though, as Jon Henke points out they’re giving FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski very little credit for this, instead showering praise on their pet commissioner Michael Copps along with commissioner Mignon Clyburn. Is there a split here we need to exploit? Let’s watch for that.

Because this plan must be defeated, either by preventing its passage at the FCC or by passing a law to forbid it or (should it be accomplished first) passing a law to reverse it. Look, even the AFL-CIO, Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, League of United Latin American Citizens, Minority Media and Telecom Council, NAACP, National Urban League, and Sierra Club want the Congress to act on this, not the runaway FCC.


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More "rule by decree"

Adjoran (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 2:30AM EST (link)

It’s all part and parcel of avoiding the legislative process to implement their will. “Deem and pass” and the failure to even bring up a budget resolution demonstrate the Democratic majorities in Congress are all aboard, while the Obama Administration joins in with the GM/Chrysler takeover, waivers for BP from MMA, the BP fund shakedown, and now this “third way” to avoid the law and rule by decree shows he is all in for it. The Democrats in both branches conspired to generally flip off the public with passing Obamacare in the first place, so their lack of respect for the citizenry is apparent.

No wonder the price of ammo is so high now . . .

 

Don't these guys ever remember that the party in power sometimes switches?

jackhammer Tuesday, June 22nd at 3:56AM EST (link)

Usually about ever 10-12 years on a historical average…..

Aren’t they scared of what these regulations could lead to in the hands of “halliburton” and the “VRWC”..manipulating google searches….giving corporations license to shut down wikipedia or whatever fantasies they might have about what we would do?

Ceding of freedoms is a bad thing, no matter what side you are on….but if they do manage to push this through, then let’s F… with them a little when we get power back, just before repealing….

5555 nt

VizBiz (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 7:03AM EST (link)

Runs with scissors, walks with Wacom.

 

We are hoping the next change in power beats the average. nt

earlgrey (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 9:05AM EST (link)

it will beat the average

jackhammer Wednesday, June 23rd at 7:36AM EST (link)

it seems in the last 40 years it really takes a perfect storm to put them in the oval office at all, not just for long. Bubba only got 2 terms because of Perot, Carter got in off an impeachment, and zer0 needed the “biggest financial meltdown of all time” to scare people out of their senses….

Unless some idiot tea party pres candidate tries to split the vote on an ego trip, I see us winning back the white house in 2012….I also think we could take the hosue in 2010, but 2012 might be split again….

 
 

Change in power?

eastbaylarry (Diary) Saturday, June 26th at 1:00PM EST (link)

The dem/progressive/marzist actions of late make it appear that they don’t plan on there ever being a change ing power again.

Excuse me now, I need to visit my local arms dealer…

2+2=4 dammit!

 
 

Nudge.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 5:11AM EST (link)

I don’t think there’s split anywhere Neil. As far as I’m concerned, they’re all on the same page.

To me, this is smelling of Cass Sunstein all the way.

In something this big, Genachowski, Copps and Clyburn might seem to be out front because they believe in it too – very deeply. But this is Sunstein doing what he was put in place to do…… Build an impenetrable shell around The Constitution via regulations.

Cantcha just wait for them to start on 2A ?

Nudge.

 

Can't we go back to the Supreme Court?

Kayla Tuesday, June 22nd at 6:36AM EST (link)

That’s how they got knocked down the first time because Congress did not give them regulation rights.

 

couldn't it be challenged in court as a direct violation

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 6:46AM EST (link)

of the telecommunications act?

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

If it can be it will be.

anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 10:50AM EST (link)

The ISP’s likely already have lawyers prepared for this etc.

hOpefully they do…

Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
http://www.zazzle.com/enemy_of_the_statist_tshirt-235977043035297478

 
 

Do they still

pamela1631 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 7:56AM EST (link)

Have duck and cover drills?

Anyone working for the FCC better learn to love the underside of their desks or closets with all the rotten control freak things being shoveled out of that office. It is hazardous to the American people.

Any super fund money left for this toxic spill of regulations?

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

 

The Grabbing Hands

reaganiterepublicanresistance Tuesday, June 22nd at 9:49AM EST (link)

Grab all they can… till November, anyway

 

US unveils plan to make online transactions safer......... Oh, that's what the administration is calling it now.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, June 26th at 8:07AM EST (link)

In a draft plan released Friday, the White House laid out an argument for a yet-undeveloped, voluntary identification system and set up a website to gather input from experts and everyday Internet users on how it should be structured.

“The technology that has brought many benefits to our society and has empowered us to do so much has also empowered those who are driven to cause harm,” said White House cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt in a blog posting Friday outlining the need for better security online.

— — — — — —

“…..those who are driven to cause harm.”

Lemme guess, Mr. Schmidt, – Google dude who wants every single person’s online activities tracked and saved in perpetuity by Teh Gubmint……….. Lemme guess who “…..those who are driven to cause harm” are in your eyes and those of the entire administration you are a slave to work for………

Muslim Terrorists ? — Child Molesters ? — Identity Thieves ?

Somehow, I doubt that.

More than likely you’re looking for those who believe in free speech for everyone (including your absolute right to do so, Mr. Schmidt), individual Rights and overall liberties, truly blind justice and the knowledge that there is indeed a higher power than the rule of man.

You know………… Typical bitter God-clinging gun owning tea bagging patriotic Americans.

Just to get ‘a tad’ more snarky……. Mr. Schmidt……. An appropriate name indeed…….. Because, sir, the schmitte is going to hit the fan over many things….. but one of the true and few real tipping points is freedom to communicate unobstructed and unobserved by any government entity, especially one hell-bent on some sort of a combined Jihadi-Totalitarian-Marxist state.

Learn it, know it, live it.