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Amid a total media blackout, the Biden administration has instructed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to assert substantial control over the internet, pursuing a court ruling to gain the right to censor Americans and has issued a broad executive order to regulate AI.
According to experts, this dominance over the digital realm could have massive adverse effects on the First Amendment rights of Americans.
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You think we’ve been censored before?!? Look at what’s coming👇
This takeover of the internet by the Biden admin is a big freaking deal & no one is talking about this.
Time to wake up the masses and have our voices heard before we no longer have the opportunity.… https://t.co/JLzBZPaEm7
— Amy Kremer (@AmyKremer) November 9, 2023
Daily Caller News Foundation reports: “These latest moves shift the balance between governmental oversight and individual freedoms heavily toward the government,” Internet Accountability Project Founder and President Mike Davis told the DCNF. “Excessive government control from the Biden administration would curtail the very essence of a free and open digital environment, compromising privacy rights and growing the alliance between Big Tech and the federal government.”
For instance, the Biden administration has called upon the Democrat-controlled FCC to implement new rules designed to tackle “digital discrimination,” a move that experts argue would drastically broaden the commission’s regulatory authority. The primary focus of the rules, which the commission will vote on on Nov. 15, is to combat “digital discrimination of access” to broadband internet, as expressed in section 60506 of Biden’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
“Biden’s plan would be an unprecedented expansion of regulatory power that grants broad authority to the administrative state over internet services,” Heritage Foundation Tech Policy Center Research Associate Jake Denton told the DCNF. “This plan empowers regulators to shape nearly all aspects of how ISPs [internet service providers] operate, including how they allocate and spend their capital, where they build new broadband infrastructure projects, and what types of offerings are made available to consumers.”
“If enacted, these centralized planning measures could profoundly transform the digital experiences of consumers — a troubling prospect that should worry all Americans about what the future of the internet could look like in this country,” Denton added.
Furthermore, the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to halt an order that blocked it from engaging in social media censorship after an appeals court partially affirmed it in September. The Supreme Court granted a pause on the injunction in October, but also agreed to consider Missouri v. Biden, a free speech case challenging the administration’s endeavors to suppress social media content, according to a court order.
“President Biden’s pronounced efforts to extend government control over the expansive tech landscape point toward an unprecedented level of government intervention in Americans’ digital lives and basic freedoms,” Davis told the DCNF. “Consolidation of power over the tech space within the government, working in tandem with its corporate allies in Big Tech, will stifle innovation, freedom of speech, and freedom of association. Diversity of ideas and technological advancements will suffer.”
A House Judiciary Committee report published on Monday revealed examples of internet censorship by the federal government, including the Biden administration.
“We see [the Biden administration trying to exercise control of the internet] from the social media side, where there was just new evidence released by [House Judiciary Committee] Chairman Jim Jordan that showed the collusion between the government and social media to censor individual Americans that were simply exercising their free speech rights,” Carr told the DCNF.
Moreover, the FCC is also pushing to restore net neutrality, making a significant move toward reestablishing it in October by voting in favor of a notice of proposed rulemaking. Net neutrality rules force ISPs to provide equal access to all websites and content providers at the same costs and speeds, regardless of size or content.
“We have seen several recent actions that shift from a light touch, free market approach to a more regulatory and precautionary approach including the revival of ‘net neutrality’ … and presumptions that AI should be regulated by the government in a top-down approach,” Cato Institute Technology Policy Research Fellow Jennifer Huddleston told the DCNF. “These actions are concerning as the light touch approach the U.S. has traditionally taken has benefited consumers by allowing entrepreneurs and innovators to enter the market with minimal government intervention or barriers.”
Biden recently signed the first ever AI executive order at the end of October and it is sweeping, covering areas such as safety, security, privacy, innovation and “advancing equity,” according to its fact sheet.
“The through line between all of these various things that are going on, including the administration’s new AI executive order … is there should be nothing that takes place on the internet that the administrative state doesn’t have a say to second guess it,” Carr told the DCNF.
The White House and FCC did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
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Nope a dope
Preliminary baby steps before we get the full WEF/EU dose of Orwellian suppression.
To be expected. This means that no non-Deep State R will ever get elected. Only Uniparty Members need apply.
So you expect no changes?
Even if this is being oversold as something it is not, we all know that the incremental approach and subsequent intentional misuse and intentional misconstruing of the law is business as usual these days.
Admin should put a countdown to tbp extinction clock on the home page.
Nah, nevermind, the Republicans and Trump are stalwart, indefatigable defenders of freedom and justice for all, and will use the power of the purse and their control of the House of Reps to stop anything like this from happening.
Yep. BTW, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read today. 😉
Thats how it works. intro some ‘law’ that is unpalative and over reach. Then have a few of the uniparty members speak up ‘warning’ the masses of the impending doom. The ‘law’ proposed then gets withdrawn and a lesser version is accepted, still on the pathway toward that end goal of ‘legal’ slavery.
Censorship is offensive.
Why are these write ups still trying to prop up the illusion of presidential decision making?.
Every time that you read “Biden,” substitute Obama…like Hillary, the thought of becoming irrelevant disturbs them…they saw their reflections in the water…
Correct.
Fuck Joe Biden…. go censor that bitch.
It’s “offensive” that such a POS is soiling the White House and the office.
We are heading toward the 2024 election. It is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better, if it actually does get any better.
Welcome to Prison Planet.
Only approved narratives may be spoken.
Thank you Comrade Biden.
Where’s the outrage?
At some point, a line in the sand ought to be drawn.
But, too late.
It’s already been crossed.
On this issue and threat to freedom,
and many, many more issues where executive orders are taking tyrannical control.
We need an uprising.
How can that be? I thought we ceded control of the internet to the Chinese under Obama. Oh, wait…where’s goofy Joe getting his money from again? Shit. It’s all starting to form a picture!
“pursuing a court ruling to gain the right to censor Americans ”
This is sloppy writing. No government entity has any rights whatsoever. The Constitution grants certain powers to the federal government, not any rights to rule citizens. More accurately stated, this is a power grab. Politicians and bureaucrats continually try to arrogate powers not granted in the Constitution in order to make the jobs of some of them easier or to establish more opportunities for jobbery.
FCC Commissioner Sounds the Alarms About Coming Biden ‘Takeover’ of Internet
FCC Commissioner Brandon Carr earlier lambasted the Biden administration for its attempted Internet “takeover” in a memorandum on the Wednesday meeting.
“So last month, President Biden gave the FCC its marching orders,” Carr said. “The President called on the FCC to implement a one-page section of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Infrastructure Act) by adopting new rules of breathtaking scope, all in the name of ‘digital equity.’ For the first time ever, those rules would give the federal government a roving mandate to micromanage nearly every aspect of how the Internet functions—from how ISPs allocate capital and where they build, to the services that consumers can purchase; from the profits that ISPs can realize and how they market and advertise services, to the discounts and promotions that consumers can receive. Talk about central planning.”
“Needless to say, Congress never contemplated the sweeping regulatory regime that President Biden asked the FCC to adopt—let alone authorized the agency to implement it,” he added. “Nonetheless, the Commission will vote next week, on November 15th, to put President Biden’s plan in place. A draft of the FCC order implementing President Biden’s plan is available here. I oppose the plan for several reasons.”
A new law is about to kill free speech and democracy in Australia
The Australian Government has recently introduced in Parliament a new law proposal to ban officially unapproved online content. Digital companies are expected to adopt a code of conduct which will see them censor speech based on broad, vague and far-reaching directives.
The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 foreshadows the imposition of a legal obligation on digital platforms to police alleged ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. If that does not work, the law proposal provides for the full empowerment of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to directly intervene for the purpose of preventing ‘harm’.
https://www.rt.com/news/586569-free-speech-democracy-australia/
Welcome to Venezuela.