FCC Reaching for "Light Touch"

[...]On Monday, FCC commissioner Michael Copps proclaimed: “Universal access to broadband needs to be seen as a civil right [...]“Broadband is becoming a basic necessity,” civil-rights activist Benjamin Hooks added.[...]" -(Snips from "Internet Access Is Not a Civil Right " -Net neutrality is the Obamacare of the Web. -by Michelle Malkin via National Review Online )

"[...]The net neutrality vision for government regulation of the Internet began with the work of Robert McChesney, a University of Illinois communications professor who founded the liberal lobby Free Press in 2002. Mr. McChesney's agenda? "At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies," he told the website SocialistProject in 2009. "But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.[...]" (Snip from "The Net Neutrality Coup:" The campaign to regulate the Internet was funded by a who's who of left-liberal foundations. -by John Fund via WSJ Opinion Journal)

"[...] On this winter solstice, we will witness jaw-dropping interventionist chutzpah as the FCC bypasses branches of our government in the dogged pursuit of needless and harmful regulation. The darkest day of the year may end up marking the beginning of a long winter's night for Internet freedom." (Snip from "The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom"-Net neutrality' sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers. -by Robert McDowell via WSJ Opinion Journal

"[...] "Intellectuals" feel threatened by the internet because it has become the tool by which the "total knowledge possessed by the millions" and is able to be shared on an international scale. People at an internet café in Macedonia can read your grandmother's cinnamon bread recipe and the whole world can watch as Iranians post YouTube videos of the violence that racked their country following the 2009 elections.
The World Wide Web is truly an unprecedented phenomena in history- perhaps even more monumental than the invention of the printing press. Books can be burned, but ideas posted on the internet can remain there indefinitely.
The internet gives a power to the masses which they have never before possessed and, as such, it is an influence that inevitably serves to decentralize the grasp of the intelligentsia worldwide."
(-Thomas Lifson, The sinister forces behind Net Neutrality, American Thinker Blog)