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There is nothing that Democrats, or any other Marxists, fear more than individuals freely communicating with each other.  Leftists become apoplectic whenever they encounter someone expressing ideas that conflict with established progressive orthodoxy. They firmly believe that freedom of speech only extends to ideas they agree with, everything else they consider hate speech, which should be censored at all costs.  If you think I am exaggerating, try espousing conservative or libertarian thoughts on a college campus or on Facebook when you have liberal friends.

Leftist elites fear freedom of speech because an informed electorate cannot be controlled or hoodwinked.  Dangerous and truthful ideas such as the fact that the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump, that Covid mRNA vaccines cause dangerous blood clots, and that manmade catastrophic climate change is actually as fictional as an effective government that does not trample on everyone’s rights, must be eradicated.

Democrats know that enough Americans still treasure freedom of speech that they have to be circumspect about their efforts to silence us.  Net Neutrality under President Obama was such an effort.  Thankfully for everyone, President Trump repealed Net Neutrality.  Unfortunately for America, with just over six months left before the election, the Biden Regime resurrected this odious pile of refuse: DOC-402082A1.pdf (fcc.gov)

WASHINGTON, April 25, 2024—The Federal Communications Commission today voted to restore a national standard to ensure the internet is fast, open, and fair. Today’s decision to reclassify broadband service as a Title II telecommunications service allows the FCC to protect consumers, defend national security, and advance public safety.

Through its actions today, the Commission creates a national standard by which it can ensure that broadband internet service is treated as an essential service. Today’s vote also makes clear that the Commission will exercise its authority over broadband in a narrowly tailored fashion— without rate regulation, tariffing, or unbundling—to foster continued innovation and investment.

Of course everything in that press release is just window dressing to disguise the true purpose of this unconstitutional executive order.

With today’s vote, the Commission restores fundamental authority to provide effective oversight over broadband service providers, giving the Commission essential tools to: • Protect the Open Internet –

• Internet service providers will again be prohibited from blocking, throttling, or engaging in paid prioritization of lawful content, restoring the rules that were upheld by the D.C. Circuit in 2016. •
• Safeguard National Security – The Commission will have the ability to revoke the authorizations of foreign-owned entities who pose a threat to national security to operate broadband networks in the U.S. The Commission has previously exercised this authority under section 214 of the Communications Act to revoke the operating authorities of four Chinese state-owned carriers to provide voice services in the U.S. Any provider without section 214 authorization for voice services must now also cease any fixed or mobile broadband service operations in the United States. •
• Monitor Internet Service Outages – When workers cannot telework, students cannot study, or businesses cannot market their products because their internet service is out, the FCC can now play an active role.

This Breitbart article does a fantastic job explaining the ins and outs of Biden’s Net Neutrality Executive Order.

The Democrat majority at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Thursday to restore the Obama-era net neutrality rules.  During President Donald Trump’s administration, then-Chairman Ajit Pai had repealed

Essentially, net neutrality regulations seek to prohibit internet service providers (ISPs), such as Comcast and Verizon, from blocking, slowing down, or allowing for “paid prioritization,” by which users can pay for faster, more consistent service.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr told Breitbart News in an interview in April that net neutrality represents a leftist “power grab by the administrative state” and an “unlawful overreach.”

The author of this Breitbart Article offered some very insightful commentary on this unconstitutional mess.

The law of common carriage, mandated by the Title II regulations demanded by Democrats, is one of the solutions recommended by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to address tech censorship. Yet Democrats want the rule applied to service providers, which are not in the habit of kicking off internet users for their political viewpoints, while not recommending similar regulations on the companies and platforms that are actually responsible for suppressing online discourse over the past five years — companies like Google, YouTube, Twitter/X, and Facebook.

Progressives and Democrats lost their minds when the FCC repealed Net Neutrality under Trump, predicting the end of the internet as we know it, and a variety of other disasters. As Breitbart News predicted at the time, none of these doom-laden predictions came true, and in fact broadband speeds across the country improved.

Despite the doom saying by Democrats, President Trump’s repealing of Net Neutrality had a positive effect on the Internet.

Here’s what the data show. Internet speeds are up 430% since 2017 on the fixed broadband side, and they are up 647% on the mobile side. In real terms, the prices for Internet services have dropped by about 9% since the beginning of 2018, according to BLS CPI data. On the mobile broadband side alone, real prices have dropped by roughly 18% since 2017, according to BLS and industry data. And for the most popular broadband speed tiers, real prices are down 54%, and for the fastest broadband speed tiers, prices are down 55%, over the past 8 years, according to BLS and industry data.30

The FCC’s vote to restore Net Neutrality is a net loss for Americans. Net neutrality is Bidenomics for the web – an expensive government takeover of the internet that would increase costs, limit choice, and stifle innovation. Despite claims that the world would end without these burdensome internet rules, the contrary occurred. Since 2017, internet speeds have increased, prices have gone down, and consumers have more options than ever before.