Controlling the Internet

One of the biggest “thorns in Obama’s side” (outside of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, of course) has been the Internet. So he wants to take over control of it so he can dictate what appears there as he does the liberal news media. He calls it “net neutrality.” But what he wants is the “neutrality” to lean decidedly to the left. He wants to get rid of ALL the criticism of his actions. If he succeeds, you won’t see blogs such as this because he will ban them outright. He can’t do that legally, but that has never stopped him from doing just whatever he wanted before. He wants to “fix” the Internet. But the Internet is NOT “broken” (no more than is the health care system) and does not need “fixing.” He wants to “fix” it, anyway. "The issue is not access, but control. In February 2008, FCC diversity czar Mark Lloyd, an admirer of what Hugo Chavez did to silence Venezuela's media, wrote about net neutrality in an article titled 'Net Neutrality Is A Civil Rights Issue'" (it is not, the way he wants it) and published by CommonDreams.org. 'Unfortunately, the powerful cable and telecom industry doesn't value the Internet for its public interest benefits,' Lloyd wrote. 'Instead, these companies too often believe that to safeguard their profits [There's that PROFIT bugaboo, again. -RT], they must control what content you see and how you get it." Lloyd feels government should be the voice controlling what you see and hear." But the cable and telecom industry CANNOT control what you see and hear on the Internet. But if laws are made, OBAMA can. (IBD Editorials)