Showing posts with label FCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FCC. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The “Universal Access Fund!” Is it time to end this freebie?

The YouTube video says it all for me.  I’ve hyperlinked each local/federal representative to Bellingham/Whatcom County, if you wish to speak/write/e-mail them about this abusive add-on to all phone bills.

Congressman Rick Larsen (currently running for re-election)

Senator Maria Cantwell (currently running for re-election):

Senator Patty Murray (currently the 4th highest member of the Senate)

YiT ~ Shelly


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Judicial Watch Uncovers Link Between FCC / Net Neutrality / Progressive Organizations / Soros


Big surprise…what we all knew is verifiably true!  The best can be read in the comments section if you go to the link and check out the readers comments.  Better yet…leave one yourself.

Yours In Truth  Winking smile  Shelly


Conn Carroll: Documents show FCC coordinated 'Net Neutrality' effort with outside group

By: Conn Carroll 06/02/11 8:05 PM

Senior Editorial Writer Follow Him @Conncarroll

Documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch describe extensive collusion by Federal Communications Commission officials with a left-wing advocacy group in a campaign to expand government regulation of the Internet.

The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch in a December 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, were created after Democrat appointees solidified their 3-2 control of the agency in March 2009.

Judicial Watch is a conservative nonprofit that specializes in using the FOIA and other avenues to expose corruption in government.

The coordination between FCC officials and Free Press, the advocacy group, was on behalf of a proposal that the agency assert authority to regulate access to the Internet as if it were a public utility in the interest of insuring "Net Neutrality."

Proponents said doing so would assure equal access for all Internet users by barring companies from offering preferred rates for higher delivery speeds. Other users, especially in communities with limited Internet access, would be forced to accept poorer service.

But critics said the proposal would actually give the FCC the first tool it needed to ultimately regulate content, and they argued that the FCC has no authority over the medium in the first place. It would be akin to forcing FedEx and UPS to treat all packages the same way the U.S. Postal Service does.

Free Press is the most vocal of a number of far-left and liberal advocacy groups that for nearly a decade have pushed numerous proposals for vastly increasing government regulation of the Internet


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/06/conn-carroll-documents-show-fcc-coordinated-net-neutrality-effort-outside#ixzz1OBeSDjcD