GOP leader John Boehner vows to eliminate ‘net neutrality’

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) vowed Monday to eliminate net neutrality rules recently enacted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), referring to the regulations as a "government takeover of the Internet."

"Right now, freedom and free expression are under attack by a power structure in Washington populated with regulators who have never set foot inside a radio station or a television studio," Rep. Boehner said during a speech at the annual National Religious Broadcasters convention.

"We see this threat in how the FCC is creeping further into the free market by trying to regulate the Internet," the congressman continued. "Network neutrality, they call it. It's a series of regulations that empower the federal bureaucracy to regulate Internet content and viewpoint discrimination. The rules are written vaguely, of course, to allow the FCC free reign."

Read more at:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/01/gop-leader-john-boehner-vows-to-eliminate-net-neutrality/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Our freedom is their slavery.

Very Orwell.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. So. They have found the spin for this troublesome regulation.

:weary sigh:


Sloganeering and lying all to make profit-taking possible in every venue.

[Jmaxfie1]

10. And Rush and Beck will preach it and Conservatives will believe it :( n/t

[LiberalAndProud]

14. It will be repeated ad nauseum from every talking head.

Rush and Beck, certainly. Add Katie Couric, Brian Williams, et. al. The propaganda machine is well oiled. This is part of our American lexicon starting now.

[truebrit71]

3. So up is down, and black is white...

How do these fuckers sleep at night??? :grr:

[MGB67deux]

7. That would be a great chant....

for a mass rally of 200,000 progressive and intelligent people. Anywhere.

[truebrit71]

17. I didn't even see that rhyme...

Doh!!

[SpiralHawk]

4. The Republicons are Brown Nosing on Bended Knee to their corporate overlords

Republicons are a pathetic pack O' bended-knee brown-nosing sellouts. No support whatsoever for Americans. Total support to the Corporate Overlords. Ptoooey.

[SpiralHawk]

6. TeaBagging? Brown Nosing? Diaper Hooker Sex? Luggage Handlers? Faux Lesbians?

"These are Republicon Family Net Notrality values. Count us out of the RepubliFREAK minority."

- Americans with Dignitude

[Guilded Lilly]

5. Did he blubber while making up this

lie?

[JohnnyRingo]

8. This is an extension of the CU decision that says money is freedom and truth.

I imagine Boehner's dream of a tattoo would be "money talks, bullshit walks".
I'm not happy at all with this assault on our right to be heard regardless of financial well being.

[DBoon]

9. like the Fairness Doctrine is censorship

end result being there are huge parts of the US where only a single political view can be heard on the radio

Because it would be "censorship" to require stations using public airwaves to include views the station owners don't like

[HillWilliam]

11. Jeebus, Boner, the Internet was BEGUN by the government

DARPA, no less, you orange orangutan. How can the government "take over" something it already (more or less) controls?

If the man stood on his hands upside down, nobody would notice. His head and his ass are fully interchangeable.

[HughBeaumont]

12. So we can live with an internet future that looks like this?

I've seen the future of "Teh Free Marketz", pal. It's Idiocracy brought to life. It's a two-class society where 5000 rich oligarch overfuckers are "free" to "market" oppression, wage crushing, starvation, homelessness, non-choice and eternal impoverished servitude to 298 million Americans.

Shove it straight up your golfing bright orange ass, you sobbing bitch fuckweasel. Like the great George Clinton once said: "I won't wear the ball and chain."

[steve2470]

13. It must hurt deep inside to lie so much, for so long nt

[provis99]

15. what a fascist shit.

Godwin's Law should be suspended when talking about Republican leaders and teabaggers.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Boehner is a liar, he's attacking freedom of expression by attacking Net Neutrality.

The vast majority of the American People have never set foot in a radio station or television studio but their voices are equal on the Internet, Boehner is trying to eliminate that freedom of speech equality and take the enhanced First Amendment power from the American People and put it in the hands of his corporate overlords.

The Internet is the raging success that it is because of Net Neutrality, not in spite of it.

Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.

[joeunderdog]

18. Obama will challenge him mightily

with silent approval.