Michael Reagan, FloydReports.com
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to get its grasping hands around the throat of the internet, the international town hall where Americans have been free to express their opinions without Big Brother’s permission or interference.
That makes the FCC unhappy. It seems that this taxpayer-supported, intrusive federal agency simply can’t bring itself to allow anything having to do with Americans communicating with each other in public without their lordly oversight or permission.
The internet — despite Al Gore’s absurd claim the he used his political powers to invent it — is largely free of U.S. or foreign government regulation or interference. In its present form, free from any government’s rules or regulations, it’s the finest example of what freedom of speech is all about, on a worldwide scale.
That seems to irk the compulsive regulators at the FCC, hence their determination to drag the internet into their regulatory lair.
According to Rasmussen Reports, American voters believe free-market competition will protect internet users more than any government regulations. Moreover, they rightly fear government regulation will be used to push what is certain to be a leftist political agenda.
A national telephone survey conducted by Rasmussen revealed that only a scant 21 percent of likely U.S. voters want the FCC to regulate the internet as it already does radio and television. Fifty-four percent are opposed to such regulation, while only 25 percent are not sure. That’s a pretty healthy percentage that thinks the government should keep its sticky hands off the world wide web — a percentage that the FCC will ignore at its own risk.
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