Democrats Propose Regulating Internet

Why has the internet been so successful? Because it has been largely unregulated. That's kind of the secret to creating wealth in society- you let all the greatness of man shine through in an unregulated environment. Sure, there is a lot of bad stuff that goes along with it (cyber-stalking, porn, etc), but on the whole, the internet has been very successful on many different levels. It reminds me of what happened after telephones were deregulated (the explosion of cellphones and now iPhones and Blackberries) or the continued success of the virtually unregulated soda pop market (which Obama and Democrats in Congress have just began to attack).

But if there is one thing that we have learned about Democrats during their control of our governmental institutions over the last couple years is that what Democrats do is find successful, thriving, profitable areas of the economy and kill them with taxes, regulation, and government oversight. America's health care system is about to severely drop in quality while becoming considerably more expensive now that the Democrats are going to regulate it more than it already was (and health care was already expensive, inefficient, and not top quality because of heavy government regulations). The Democrat's cap and trade scam will be the final nail in the coffin for manufacturing.

But what about the internet? Surely Democrats, who have pretended to care about free speech such that idiot social libertarians voted for them, would not attack the internet with regulations and taxes? Didn't we have to live with the screeching by social liberals who were afraid that it was the Republican Bush who was going to do this for years... for 8 years... and yet never did? Via RedState:

Last week FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and his fellow Democrats decided to take a significant step toward gaining that control by opening for public comment their proposed changes to Internet regulation. The FCC currently classifies Internet service providers as information services, which prohibits significant government regulation. Genachowski seeks to classify them as telecommunications services, which would give the FCC a much stronger regulatory hand. This change of classification would likely result in strict government regulation of the Internet, despite the Chairman’s promise to rule – er… regulate with a “light touch”. Combine that with May’s draft report from the Federal Trade Commission considering such options as rewriting copyright law to favor of print media, creating a “journalism” division of AmeriCorps, or taxing Internet devices to support newspapers, and the future doesn’t look particularly rosy for all things Internet related.

This is scary stuff. In case you haven't noticed, my blog has gone after Democrats pretty hard, exposing their various schemes to violate my freedom of life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. I'm pretty sure that Obama and the Democrats in Congress feel that I am not a 'legitimate' journalistic enterprise, and thus don't get 1st amendment rights, and so will shut me down once they gain control of the internet. I'm pretty sure that a 'light touch' will mean that I'll be slapped down, junk lawsuits will be filed against me, I'll have to pay some sort of tax for maintaining a site on the interent, or some other slimy Democrat plot will work to further deprive me of my god-given rights.

Oh, I know, the leftists were all worried that Bush was going to do this, but Bush never even got as far as Obama has, and Bush was at it for 8 years and Obama has only been ruling us like the tyrant that he is for less than 2 years. Imagine what will happen if the Democrats keep control of the House and Senate for another 2 years because you didn't do anything to support the Republican candidates for Congress. We're stuck with Obama for 2 more years, but he can't continue to rule unchecked like this, where he believes in all his hubris that he has the legitimate power to control the internet.