The Next Obama Appointee – Another Huge Shift to the Left?
Genachowski has been a good Leftist foot soldier, willfully ignoring the amazing free market successes of the Internet to implement large swaths of President Obama’s uber-regulatory agenda.
Arguably the largest swath is Network Neutrality. Net Neutrality remains a major problem for a free speech-free market Internet – and a source of great anxiety for its Leftist backers.
Genachowski’s FCC in December 2010 imposed it – bereft of any legislative authority to do so. The Chairman and everyone else knew there was no such authority – because the D.C. Circuit Court said so just eight months prior to his again jamming it down on us.
Après Genachowski le déluge – of lawsuits. Verizon, Metro PCS wireless and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli all sued to undo the Net Neutrality power grab. The very same D.C. Circuit will in the fall begin hearing these arguments.
There does the Left’s tension begin. They don’t want to just maintain the Internet turf they’ve usurped – they want to expand upon it. These lawsuits could roll back much of their takings.
The naming of Genachowski’s replacement gives the Left an opportunity to demand the Obama Administration protect the over-reached status quo – and ratchet up the regulatory count.
Genachowski has been a good Leftist foot soldier, willfully ignoring the amazing free market successes of the Internet to implement large swaths of President Obama’s uber-regulatory agenda.
Arguably the largest swath is Network Neutrality. Net Neutrality remains a major problem for a free speech-free market Internet – and a source of great anxiety for its Leftist backers.
Genachowski’s FCC in December 2010 imposed it – bereft of any legislative authority to do so. The Chairman and everyone else knew there was no such authority – because the D.C. Circuit Court said so just eight months prior to his again jamming it down on us.
Après Genachowski le déluge – of lawsuits. Verizon, Metro PCS wireless and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli all sued to undo the Net Neutrality power grab. The very same D.C. Circuit will in the fall begin hearing these arguments.
There does the Left’s tension begin. They don’t want to just maintain the Internet turf they’ve usurped – they want to expand upon it. These lawsuits could roll back much of their takings.
The naming of Genachowski’s replacement gives the Left an opportunity to demand the Obama Administration protect the over-reached status quo – and ratchet up the regulatory count.