“Net Neutrality” Regulation: Obama’s Imperious FCC Shifts to Plan B

Timothy H. Lee

5/12/2010

Last month, a federal court of appeals unanimously rejected the brazen campaign by Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet via so-called “Net Neutrality.”

Meanwhile, over in the court of public opinion, the American electorate opposes Obama’s scheme to federalize the Web by a 2-to-1 margin.

But just as we witnessed with healthcare, such realities are irrelevant to the Obama Administration. Neither an embarrassing judicial rebuke from the Court of Appeals nor lopsided public opposition will interrupt its kamikaze mission to impose as much of its big-government agenda as it can prior to November’s election reckoning.

So instead of respecting the unequivocal Court of Appeals decision or public disposition, Obama’s FCC disdainfully retreated to Plan B. In an attempt to circumvent the Court of Appeals ruling, the FCC has unveiled its attempt to “reclassify” the Internet under New Deal-era telephone laws written in the 1930s.

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