Protestors demand the regulation of on-line speech
Kit Daniels | Infowars.com - May 18, 2017
Net Neutrality activists held signs declaring “Ban Drudge” and “Ban Infowars” while calling for the regulation of on-line speech outside the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday.
The protestors were taking part in a rally spearheaded by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in protest of the planned vote to roll back the FCC’s regulatory takeover of the Internet by reclassifying Internet Service Providers as “common carriers” under Title II regulations developed in 1934.
“Groups planning to attend include American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Media Justice, Color Of Change, Common Cause, CREDO Action, Demand Progress, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Faithful Internet, Fight for the Future, Free Press Action Fund, and the National Hispanic Media Coalition,”
reported Broadcasting Cable.
They are demanding that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai keep Obama-era FCC regulations in place, but
as we reported in 2015 , the FCC had cherry picked existing laws for cable, radio, and broadband to create a patchwork of “authority” to regulate the Internet and set the precedent to control on-line speech.
Some of the existing laws were written decades apart and independently of each other, but that didn’t stop the FCC.
Additionally,
several members of the FCC under President Obama were members of a leftist organization called Free Press which advocated draconian restrictions placed on the Internet.
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