More Mutterings about Silencing the Internet
by Jeff Davis
I know, no one believes me when I say that one day we’re going to lose the Internet, but people in authority keep floating these little trial balloons to introduce restrictions. They keep running things up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes. Make no mistake: the political will to take the Internet away from us definitely exists.
A Business and Media news article reports “There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all but destroy the industry, due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and government dictating content policy. FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell raised that as a possibility after talking with bloggers at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. McDowell spoke about a recent FCC vote to bar Comcast from engaging in certain Internet practices – expanding the federal agency’s oversight of Internet networks.”
Liberals are upset that right wing talk radio gets more listeners than they do. Their solution is to shoehorn a liberal into every single right wing radio show so you have to listen to some whiny liberal whether you want to or not. One big problem with the “Fairness Doctrine” is that it assumes that all of free speech can be boiled down to neocons and liberals. Apparently, anyone who is pro-White, doesn’t deserve any “fairness” or free speech. (more…)