{"id":20037,"date":"2015-02-25T09:23:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20037"},"modified":"2015-02-25T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:23:29","slug":"this-is-just-wrong-in-so-freakin-many-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/this-is-just-wrong-in-so-freakin-many-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"This is just wrong in so freakin’ many ways."},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So if you haven’t heard by now (and there’s been surprisingly little coverage), the FCC is about to v*te to regulate the Internet. ‘Cause, you know, the ‘Net is just precisely like the telephone system in the 1930s and now there are all these terrible, terrible unfair things going on like people not being allowed to express their opinions<\/del> big traditional media companies triumphing over blogs and social media<\/del> … well, like something. Whatever it is, the fedgov MUST save us from it!<\/p>\n

Not only that, but tomorrow’s big v*te will be on a 300+-page secret plan that you and I (e.g. the alleged beneficiaries of regulation) aren’t even allowed to see.<\/p>\n

Despite three of the five FCC v*ters (ah, the magic of democracy!) being Dems, the plan may yet choke. One of the Dems is reportedly just a teensy bit restless about the whole matter. And even if the Big Five v*te themselves the authority, court challenges could drag out for years. But as usual We the Peasants have no say in the situation, one way or the other. (Did I mention ah, democracy!)<\/p>\n

Even one of the big forces supposedly looking out for “our” side<\/a> has gone over to the other side. <\/p>\n

And (ah, justice!) they’re already regretting it, despite not quite understanding why. MtK, who sent me the link in that last paragraph noted that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has become the NRA of ‘Net freedom. <\/p>\n

You ask for federal regulation? You support federal regulation? Then you’re shocked, simply shocked!<\/i> when you get federal regulation — and it turns out it benefits the feds more than you? Oh, you pooo widdle baby! Such a surprise! Who could possibly have predicted that<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Oh wait … anybody<\/i> who’s been standing on the outside watching could have predicted that. Heck, we could have predicted it even before there was such a thing as the Internet to regulate. Because that’s just the way it works. <\/p>\n

How is it that only those who so desperately cherish their “seats at the table” during fed dealmaking (and incidentally, we’re talking to you, Mr. Gottlieb, with your notorious seat-at-the-table on Manchin-Toomey, as well as the formerly principled folks at the EFF) are somehow the only ones who can’t see the inevitable result<\/i> of playing footsie under that table with the fedgov?<\/p>\n

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SIDENOTE: How is it, also, that the big gov faction always comes up with the good memes? I mean “net neutrality” and “open internet” — what kind of villain could possibly be opposed to those? Being against neutrality and openness would be like hating kittens. Never mind that “neutrality” and “openness” are just verbal Halloween costumes disguising government control. And this has been going on for a long time, clear back to when the noble slogan “one man, one v*te” was used to shift all political power from rural areas to urban centers. How come freedom never gets the good memes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source.) So if you haven’t heard by now (and there’s been surprisingly little coverage), the FCC is about to v*te to regulate the Internet. ‘Cause, you know, the ‘Net is just precisely like the telephone system in the 1930s and now there are all these terrible, terrible unfair things going on like people not being allowed to express their opinions big traditional media companies triumphing over blogs and social media … well, like something. Whatever it is, the fedgov MUST save us from it! Not only that, but tomorrow’s big v*te will be on a 300+-page secret plan that you…<\/p>\n

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