What ‘net neutrality’ reveals about U.S. government

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The days of the U.S. as a constitutional, representative government have long passed. Unelected and unaccountable porn-obsessed bureaucrats and paper pushers, mostly nameless and faceless to Americans, run America for the benefit of the multinational corporations and the banksters.

On Wednesday, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, an Orwellian bureaucracy that long ago outlived any usefulness it may have once held, refused to testify before Congress to describe the still-secret particulars of the agency’s plan to regulate the Internet. What’s this: The head of an agency established by Congress refused to testify before Congress? An agency tasked with looking out for the interests of the people refuses to divulge plans that if passed will affect the way every American receives information? This is what passes for representative government.

House Weeper John Boehner quickly took to his Facebook feed to boldly proclaim, “An open, vibrant Internet is essential to a growing economy, and net neutrality is a textbook example of the kind of Washington regulations that destroy innovation and entrepreneurship.

“Federal bureaucrats should NOT be in the business of regulating the Internet. Not now. Not ever.”

He then promptly surrendered, proving yet again he’s all hat and no cattle. Senior Republicans had already conceded they were powerless to halt the agency it created 70-some years ago — just like it’s powerless to halt executive amnesty and executive gun regulations and every other thing it’s empowered by the Constitution to do but which it regularly cedes the power over to an imperial president and the bureaucratic regime.

Put in simplest terms, the changes will allow the FCC to regulate the Internet like a public utility, setting new standards that require the provision of equal access to all online content. Of course, like all legislation passed in the past century, the real and ultimate goal of the legislation is a far cry from what you’re told it is and opposite of what its name implies.

Other places have written how government regulation of the Internet will create monopolies, stifle innovation and competition, restrict content and speech, and grant government even more power over what you see, hear and say. This is not that discussion.

That’s because the most revealing tell in all of this is the further evidence that Congress is a feckless, vapid and odious collection of soulless fascists whose sole purpose is to suck off the public teat for as long as possible before riding off to a further appointment in government or as a lobbyist. It does not in any way represent the people that elect it.

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Bob Livingston

American author and editor of The Bob Livingston Letter®, in circulation since 1969. Bob specializes in health issues such as nutritional supplements and natural alternatives, as well as issues of liberty, privacy and the preservation of medical freedom.