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RUSH: The regime is not going to be happy about this next story. ‘The Federal Communications Commission does not have the legal authority to slap Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel in Washington, DC unanimously tossed out the FCC\u2019s August 2008 cease and desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to slow <\/a>BitTorrent transfers and had voluntarily ended them earlier that year,\u2019 and the FCC didn\u2019t like that. They don\u2019t want Internet providers being able to regulate any aspect of who gets to see what via their website. There\u2019s a lot of confusion about what net neutrality is. I remember I had a conversation not long ago with a high government official about this. I explained on the program here what it is. And I was bombarded with e-mail from, ‘You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. Net neutrality has nothing to do with what you\u2019re talking about.\u2019 And it does. Basically, Internet providers are supposed to treat all Internet content equally. <\/p>\n

In the case of Comcast, the government didn\u2019t like the fact that they did not make BitTorrent available to their subscribers. BitTorrent is a file transfer protocol that huge files, some of them not legal in terms of copyright and this sort of thing, are downloaded and uploaded and so forth, and it poses virus risks and a number of other things. And so Comcast, for whatever reason, if not those, ‘We don\u2019t want to have BitTorrent available here,\u2019 for a whole bunch of reasons. And the FCC, ‘You can\u2019t do that,\u2019 so they went to court over it. The court is saying the FCC ‘has failed to tie its assertion\u2019 of regulatory authority to any actual law enacted by Congress, the agency does not have the authority to regulate an Internet provider\u2019s network management practices, wrote Judge David Tatel … Even though liberal advocacy groups had urged the FCC to take action against Comcast, the agency\u2019s vote to proceed was a narrow 3-2, with the dissenting commissioners predicting at the time that it would not hold up in court. FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, a Republican, said at the time that the FCC\u2019s ruling was unlawful and the lack of legal authority ‘is sure to doom this order on appeal.”<\/p>\n

Now, there are great ramifications for this. This decision could doom something recently announced by Julius Genachowski, the new chairman of the FCC, which was a national broadband policy. Right now the FCC does not have any regulatory authority over the Internet, and they don\u2019t have any over cable TV. They have it over broadcast. They have it over-the-air cell phone transmissions, television and that kind of thing, but they don\u2019t have it over the Internet and yet they asserted control. And the court said, ‘You don\u2019t have regulatory authority here. There\u2019s no law granting you this.\u2019 Well, that will be taken care of pretty soon because the regime wants to control everything, particularly Internet content. They want to make sure that what has happened here to talk radio does not happen to the Internet. They want to make sure that their point of view doesn\u2019t get snuffed out by the marketplace, which it has here on talk radio. Despite their best efforts, liberals simply have failed to score anything significant in talk radio on the air, and the regime is very unhappy about that. <\/p>\n

There have been numerous attempts by some of the most supposedly competent, superstar liberals in the history of the country, and still, they get an asterisk as a rating point. Look at CNN. One day a couple weeks ago in the 25 to 54 demographic, Anderson Cooper, 25,000 viewers in an hour. Twenty-five thousand people in the whole country, that\u2019s all, were watching CNN. My friends, I, on this program, have 25,000 viewers at the corner of 60th and Madison in New York City. The regime does not want the same thing happening to the Internet, and the net neutrality was to make sure that Internet providers made equal content available to anybody visiting through their portal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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