Investors.com – A Power Grab Called ‘Net Neutrality’
First Amendment: Diversity czar Mark Lloyd’s FCC votes Thursday on the issue of net neutrality. Advertised as providing access to all, it will do to the information superhighway what Lloyd proposed for talk radio.
Not much was said when $7.2 billion was included in the stimulus bill “to accelerate broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas and to strategic institutions that are likely to create jobs or provide significant public benefits.” The administration has big plans for the Internet — like controlling it.
Susan Crawford, the so-called Internet czar, told the Wall Street Journal in April that the broadband billions are a “down payment on future government investments in the Internet.” Like in the auto industry?