SETTING THE SCENE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF THE INTERNET

As reported in the April 13th issue of USA Today by David Lieberman, ”… the options are how much consumers pay for broadband, how fast their services will be and possibly whether millions of people will be able to get it at all.” The FCC wants the power to tell us what the rules will be. They smell the money and their pretense will be ‘equal opportunity for all”, i.e. free internet service for everyone.

We are beginning to see the trend – local communities providing free Internet service to a wide area around them. The way I see it, that means they can eventually control what’s on the Internet and omit what they don’t want to allow on it. Today, besides FOX News, blogs seem to be the only method of communication where we get an alternate perspective. With control of the Internet, the government, like the alphabet networks, would control what thought is permitted and what thought is sliced out. Sounds like a one-part system, huh?

Success in reclassfying broadband is one giant leap for the government. The Internet is becoming THE way to go for media, communications and business. The so-called ‘reclassification” is another clever, government-inspired attempt to take power from cable and phone companies and redefine the Internet as a regulated common carrier service. Danger, danger, danger.