The Obamunist Threat

2010: The Year the Internet Went to War

“ Regulatory fiat is the unilateral taking of legislative power by a regulatory agency that cannot legally exercise that power according to the Constitution. This new theory of progressive governance, which contradicts progressive rhetoric about “democracy”, is based on the ideas of Constitutional relativism which see the Constitution as a “responsive” document in which present meanings and definitions of words, and not the original intent, are the driving force.   [The Freedomist] ”

This WIRED article missed the late breaking news about the UN  voting to staff a working group on the future of the Internet Governance Forum -- an important theater of discussion on matters of cyberspace -- by governments alone. It does however capture the Obamunist efforts along the same lines.  Which would be controlling what's said, and who says it.  Here's a few examples: BUT WAIT!  DECEMBER 2010 FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to federal appeals court: EFF-YOU!  Imposes net neutrality by fiat. Only one blog hangs him. “   ... an April federal appeals court decision that said the Federal Communications Commission had no power to enforce its principles of net neutrality, absent congressional authority. The ruling, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, came after Comcast appealed an FCC reprimand for having sabotaged its customers’ BitTorrent traffic. Regulatory fiat is the unilateral taking of legislative power by a regulatory agency that cannot legally exercise that power according to the Constitution. This new theory of progressive governance, which contradicts progressive rhetoric about “democracy”, is based on the ideas of Constitutional relativism which see the Constitution as a “responsive” document in which present meanings and definitions of words, and not the original intent, are the driving force. “ Most important, the year 2010 witnessed a major milestone in a long-simmering fight for e-mail privacy. The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the Fourth Amendment, regardless of what the 1986 Stored Communications Act said, protected Americans’ e-mail. It was one, all-too-rare case of rebuking the cliché that the law does not keep up with technology. BUT WAIT! The Barack Obama administration fought against the ruling. The decision, if it withstands Supreme Court scrutiny, means the authorities need a court warrant to access e-mail from mail providers. I wanted to thrown in here a reminder that the EPA Moved to Unilaterally Impose Carbon Caps, but it was more than I can stand right now.  Sorry.   thor