Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC a.k.a “The Ministry of Truth“) reversed course and deregulated high speed Internet service. The FCC gave telephone companies the right to stop other Internet service providers, like Earthlink, from using their lines.

For years the baby bells raged against “forced access” AKA consumer choice. Until today the FCC balked. It’s a brilliant political strategy on Bush’s part. Just as Rove and the White House are outed on their lies, why not wipe out Internet access for tens of millions of curious Americans? The Evening News will tell them eveything they need to know.

The FCC’s reasoning is that DSL is an information service not a telecommunication service subject to “regulation” and therefore the infomation must controlable by the US government, monitorable by the NSA, eavesdroppable by the FBI -and if the information is found to be “unsuitable”- executable by the FCC before reaching its destination, the freedumb loving people of the USA.
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