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Pryderi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-11 11:42 PM
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Koch Brothers and AFP going after FCC and net neutrality
Senate Must Stop Obama Internet Takeover
By Phil Kerpen
Published September 23, 2011 | FoxNews.com

Today, the Obama administration officially published the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) so-called net neutrality rules in the Federal Register. These rules would undo a decade of free-market, hands-off Internet policy that has made the Internet the greatest engine of economic growth, creativity, and innovation the world has ever seen. They would set us down a path to reducing the Internet into a government-regulated, government-controlled public utility. The effective date is November 20, 2011. The House has already voted to overturn the rules. The Senate now has two months to do the same – and they must.



Read more: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/092411-senate-must-stop-obama-internet-takeover#ixzz1Z1x5e8pg

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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-11 11:49 PM
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1. Tried-and-true Republican doublethink
Evil, evil.
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-11 11:51 PM
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2. K&R
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-11 11:55 PM
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3. If they don't like the way he is running the country, they should leave
and move to Somalia, their small government paradise.

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Sirveri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 12:36 AM
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4. They love regulation when it screws the common man.
No growing this plant, we'll send you to our for profit prison.
No listening to dissenting views, they're not available anymore.

They should just do it, Egypt really fell apart when they hit the internet kill switch.
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