Note: This first appeared in Breitbart.com's Big Government.
Bad policy after bad policy. Often illegally imposed. As a result, the Tech Sector – 1/6 of our nation’s economy, as big as health care – is hemorrhaging jobs.
Tech Layoffs Hit 3-year High in First Half of 2012
And our Internet service would be better, faster and cheaper were it not for this Administration.
The damage done by taxes and regulations is often unseen. The money wasted - either sent to government or spent complying with ridiculous over-regulation - could have instead been invested in improving and expanding existing service, nd hiring people to make it all happen.
The worst gig-and-progress-killing Administration Internet power grab of all was the December 2010 illegal imposition of Network Neutrality. Net Neutrality eviscerates private sector investment in the infrastructure necessary to maintain and continue building the World Wide Web – exactly as ObamaCare does to private sector health care.
Which ultimately leaves us with the government as our sole Internet Service Provider (ISP) – not at all problematic from a performance or free speech perspective. How do we know this? Because the Godfather of the Media “Reform” Movement – University of Illinois professor and avowed Marxist (please pardon the redundancy) Robert McChesney – says so:
“At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”
Having not to the Media Marxists’ satisfaction done enough damage to the wireless Web, in April 2011 the Administration took a second poisonous bite at the apple.
Meanwhile, the Administration has serially, incessantly been an in-depth impediment to the free market business transactions that will dramatically improve and expand the Web.
This Administration hasn’t been picking Winners and Losers - they’ve been picking Losers at the expense of Winners. It isn’t Crony Capitalism - it’s Crony Socialism.
Take the Mother-May-I government approval process for mergers and acquisitions - that applies almost exclusively to the Internet-Tech sector. This Administration has abused the living daylights out of it.
A decision is supposed to be made within 180 days. This Administration has time and again delayed beyond a year some of the mergers and acquisitions languishing before them.
Cell phone Winner AT&T wanted to buy cell phone Loser T-Mobile. The Administration dragged out the process for more than thirteen months - then denied the purchase. Which cost Winner AT&T somewhere between $3 and $6 billion - to be given to Loser T-Mobile.
When the Administration isn’t outright blocking private sector mergers, they are cramming them full of illegal “conditions.” Laws and regulations to which the parties must agree - else the Administration will deny their request.
These “conditions” are just more examples of this Administration unilaterally, unlawfully writing law - without benefit of Congress. Comcast was last year forced to swallow two dozen Administration-imposed “conditions” so as to finally - more than a year after the deal was first announced - merge with NBC-Universal.
And just last week the Administration approved Verizon’s wireless spectrum purchase from a cable company consortium - but, again, only with a whole host of illegal attending “conditions.” That, amongst other things, “restrict...joint marketing agreements.”
So not only are these “conditions” unlawfully imposed - some of them eviscerate the First Amendment. This Administration is telling these companies what they can and can not say. And these companies will capitulate - else they can not do business.
All of this Obama Administration hyper-activity has frozen in amber the private sector. This Administration’s myriad of higher taxes and uber-regulatory zeal have cost us growth and job creation - and force us to pay ever higher prices for ever lesser products.
And that’s just the cost we see. The advancement lost to the forced capitulation to Black Hole Government - where money, light and energy go in, and nothing comes out - is unseeable, unknowable - and incalculable.
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Comment by David Sykes on August 23, 2012 at 11:45am Who's watching the Watchmen? http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49003?utm_source=C...
Comment by Doug Nicholson on August 21, 2012 at 10:02pm Thanks for the additional information, Dave & Rich.
Comment by Rich Knoch on August 21, 2012 at 5:24pm Info on Brandon Raub's arrest. He "supposedly" had two FB pages - - - one is "supposed to be" radical while the other page is that of an American who is frustrated with the current socialist administration.
It's possible he was set up to take a fall which would lend more reason to clamp down on the internet . . . . . . . or he just incriminated himself?
http://www.facebook.com/brandon.raub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLpChd1-8Q4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-57PzLmHp8
http://planet.infowars.com/activism/marine-vet-detained-for-fb-post...
Comment by Dave Koch on August 21, 2012 at 4:34pm Doug it is not the same Marine. The one Hector is talking about is a Former Marine and his blog on FB and they put him in a Mental Ward for 30 days for speaking out. But then you Miss M. Willams who is the leader of the Black Panthers threaten Americans and they look the other way. What does that tell you about these idiots and the Liberal Media who don't report these threats. If any person gets hurt at Rep Convention next week because of Black Panthers and Holder and Obama don't do anything, this will tell you where we are heading and American's better be prepared.
Comment by Doug Nicholson on August 21, 2012 at 1:22pm Hector Torres: How about a link to the story of the former Marine arrested for his FB posts? I, for one, would like to learn more.
Were you talking about the active duty guy (sergeant, I think) who is being court martialed for his anti-Odumbo FB posts? If so, he was in the wrong. As a member of the military, you lose your right of free speech until discharged or retirement.
Comment by Linny Redd on August 21, 2012 at 12:24pm WE have "let" this happen by tolerating this power-grabber to stay in office, illegal as Marxist BO is. What DO we expect? That tomorrow he's going to become a "legtimate" and patriotic Mr. Nice Guy? What you see is what you get and unless WE do something about it, BO will NOT stop being who he really isl!!! His "swearing" an oath to the US Constitution was only a ploy to get where he is. Yes, he should have been arrested - and tried - and convicted!!!
Since We the People haven't done this, he and his cronies are only going to get worse 'til we do get them OUT of DC! So WORK for the VOTE!!!!!!!!! Some 30% of Conservative Voter did not vote
in the last election! This is appalling and UNACCEPTABLE!
Comment by Thomas Angle on August 21, 2012 at 10:40am Here is a pertinent question; If you swear to defend and protect the Constitution, and you then pass laws or give an executive orders usurping the same, why can't we get those people arrested ?
Because We the People have no ball to stand up and stop them.
Comment by Hector Torres on August 21, 2012 at 10:35am Its getting worse than that ! witness the illegal arrest of a former marine and war veteran. Yes, some of his rethoric in the internet (Facebook private page), was out there for some. But what happen to his first amendment right ? How about a warrant needed for his incarceration and home seizure of equipment ?
Here is a pertinent question; If you swear to defend and protect the Constitution, and you then pass laws or give an executive orders usurping the same, why can't we get those people arrested ?
Comment by Rich Knoch on August 21, 2012 at 10:25am In order for Socialism to work . . . . the rulers (obama and his czars) have to control the flow of information and supplant it with their propaganda . . . . . . . to steer the masses into submission.
Comment by Debrajoe Smith-Beatty on August 21, 2012 at 9:41am We the People must stop giving power to these groups.
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