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Today the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld President Obama’s so-called “net neutrality” regulations in a 2-1 decision. These are the rules that re-classified the Internet as a “public utility” under a Depression-era law, and leave us on the hook for a massive new tax increase and countless new regulations that are already having a dramatic negative impact on investment.
The judges on the D.C. Circuit wrote the decision simply pretending the regulations came from an expert agency entitled to deference based on its expertise. They essentially decided to play along and ignore the widely reported fact that the order actually came from White House political hacks and a decision based entirely on politics to pressure the FCC to ignore its own experts to instead score a political win for the hard-left after the 2014 election landslide.
I’ll be honest, this outcome is disappointing. But the fight will, and must, continue on. Obama’s FCC’s Internet Takeover is too devastating to Internet freedom— it must be stopped.
As I wrote the day the FCC adopted the order, Marxist radical Robert McChesney, who started the “net neutrality” movement, again deserves congratulations. But he cannot be allowed to achieve his ultimate goal to “get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”
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On a positive note, the House of Representatives recently passed language through the Appropriations Committee which would defund the FCC regulations.
And despite today’s setback, I remain optimistic that we will prevail in this fight.
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5 unelected bureaucrats at the FCC should not dictate how #Internet services will be provided to Americans https://t.co/o9RW4DQhsJ
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 14, 2016
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