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Best of The Freedom Pub This Week

The Freedom Pub keeps getting bringing in the good, opinionated patrons. Still plenty of room at the bar, however. If you're not a regular at The Pub, head on over, sign in and join the conversation by blogging and commenting on the opinions of other lovers of freedom. If you are a member, keep your eye out for your stuff being mentioned as part of…
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Added by Jim Lakely on August 15, 2010 at 9:59pm — No Comments

Washington Post to FCC: Back Away from the Internet

The Washington Post editorial board leans left, but is more reasonable in its policy prescriptions than, say, The New York Times. The paper published a remarkably sound editorial Monday morning about the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan, and Chairman Julius Genachowski's desire to grab sweeping control over the digital economy by imposing strict net…
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Added by Jim Lakely on May 25, 2010 at 1:17pm — No Comments

Obama Advisor Says Government Must Control Internet Content

Cass Sunstein, a long-time Obama legal advisor and a man considered to be continually on the president's short list for U.S. Supreme Court nominations, gave a pretty chilling interview to WBEZ radio in February 2001.


It would be ideal, he said, if bloggers routinely linked to those who hold opposing views. But, if that isn't done as a matter of course, it would be prudent for the government to require it. Granted, this was a while ago, but Obama's recent commencement speech…
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Added by Jim Lakely on May 20, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

FCC Staffer: Copps wants "jurisdiction over everything" on the Internet

Via our friend Peter Suderman over at Reason's blog comes this clip of a high-level staffer of FCC Commissioner Michael Copps' sharing her boss' view of how the agency should eventually have control over the entire Internet.




Surely, as Suderman points out, this will be…
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Added by Jim Lakely on May 19, 2010 at 3:58pm — 1 Comment

Best of The Freedom Pub This Week

Lots of thought-provoking posts at The Freedom Pub this week. I'm constantly amazed by the variety and quality of the conversation around the bar. We don't always agree, but we get good debates going. Please tell your friends to join us! So ... without further ado, here's the run-down of the good stuff, just in case you missed it:


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Added by Jim Lakely on May 8, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

Julius "Caesar" Genachowski Has Spoken, and the Internet Will Be Worse for it

The indispensable Wall Street Journal editorial page has a must-read piece on Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski's latest plan to grab power over the Internet. I already covered some of this ground here and…
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Added by Jim Lakely on May 8, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

FCC Plows Ahead with Plan to Regulate the Internet

Exactly one month after a federal court ruled the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to regulate the Internet, the agency’s chairman unveiled a plan to nonetheless implement his ambitious National Broadband Plan—an avenue he called a “third way.”



FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said agency lawyers had found a way for the commission to strictly impose net neutrality rules on Internet service providers (ISPs), despite the… Continue

Added by Jim Lakely on May 6, 2010 at 5:27pm — 1 Comment

FCC to Defy Court Order, Impose Net Neutrality Rules Anyway

Apparently, those hints earlier this week that the Federal Communications Commission would back off its net neutrality agenda were just a bluff.



FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski did an…

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Added by Jim Lakely on May 5, 2010 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

A Broadband Sob Story. Try Not to Laugh — or Get Mad



The leftist outfit with the Orwellian name "Free Press" put out the above video not as a parody, but as a piece of propaganda they think will win converts to their side — the side of government management of the Internet and "free" broadband for all (paid for by the U.S. taxpayer).



Oh, the horror of relying on Dial-Up because you can't adjust your family budget to pay around $50 a month (or less) for… Continue

Added by Jim Lakely on April 13, 2010 at 6:32pm — 2 Comments

Good News: Chastened FCC Extends Net Neutrality Comment Period

The impact of the legal smack-down the DC Circuit Court of Appeals gave the Federal Communications Commission yesterday in Comcast v. FCC continues to rumble. In a sign of the significance of the decision — in which the court told the FCC it does not have the… Continue

Added by Jim Lakely on April 7, 2010 at 2:59pm — No Comments

Court Deals Blow to FCC's Net Neutrality Dreams, a Round-Up

(UPDATE: Go here for a complete run-down of the issue at InfoTech & Telecom News).


The United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia…
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Added by Jim Lakely on April 6, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Stop Complaining! You're Living in a Wondrous Age!

David Boaz (that's not him at left) has a must-read post at the The Cato Institute's blog about how we live in a wondrous technological age — and proof comes in that cell phone you have laying on the table over there. What was the key to bringing this about? The break-up of the government-imposed monopoly known as Ma Bell, and deregulation of the… Continue

Added by Jim Lakely on March 31, 2010 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

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