More Unconstitutionality From The FCC
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is a prime example of government overreach that just keeps overreaching. With no constitutional authority, the agency has been tasked with monitoring and punishing speech as well as regulating who can speak for decades. While people with a brain see that as a violation of the first amendment, liberals have sloughed off concerns for years because to accept the truth would mean they would have one less avenue to control the American public.
Well, the FCC is at it again. Not content with regulating access to telephone and television, as though such things are rights, they also want to get their grubby little bureaucratic fingers into regulating access to the internet as well.
I am still looking for this authority under the Constitution where it says that the government will preserve the right of the people to access things that they might not have the money to pay for.
Believe it or not however, in this day and age when nearly anything any hand of government wants to do is granted, the FCC has recently been smacked down with regards to its attempts to force Comcast to allow users to access a particular service by the name of BitTorrent as the Washington Post reports. The FCC is not happy that Comcast is, under the terms of its service agreement which people willingly accept, exerting control over where people go on the internet in an effort to make their network actually work. The problem for companies like Comcast is that bandwidth is limited and some people visiting certain sites have the ability to hog this bandwidth and bring their network to a crawl thus prohibiting the service from functioning and others from accessing the internet. Filesharing of large files and these abusive users that basically remain logged on 24/7 downloading constantly are a major problem and companies like Comcast have changed their service agreements over the years to deal with these problems.
The FCC lost their case and looks to lose their appeal too. But this is once again a case of accepting a premise that is false and moving down the road to actions based on that false premise. The false premise is that the federal government has some right to tell private companies what they must provide to their customers and the manner in which it much be provided. That of course is dumb and so far gone as thought goes that it should never be accepted. But it has been. Thus we are at this point.
If companies like Comcast are truly violating contracts the courts are already set up to handle this. There is no need for the FCC. But if there was no FCC then there would be a lot of petty bureaucrats who couldn’t fend for themselves in the real world put out onto the street. And that my friends is something that is so heinous to the liberal mindset that it can never be allowed. You however being out of work because they crash the very economic structures of this country is a-ok. And if you think otherwise you haven’t been paying much attention to how they are keeping the economy depressed and screwing us for the long haul as well.
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