Strong Words From the Speaker

By Brad

In a speech at the National Religious Broadcasters convention last week, House Speaker John Boehner had some strong words for the FCC’s net neutrality regulations:

“Right now, freedom and free expression are under attack by a power structure in Washington populated with regulators who have never set foot inside a radio station or a television studio. 

“We see this threat in how the FCC is creeping further into the free market by trying to regulate the Internet. 

“‘Network neutrality,’ they call it.  It’s a series of regulations that empower the federal bureaucracy to regulate Internet content and viewpoint discrimination.  The rules are written vaguely, of course, to allow the FCC free reign.

“The last thing we need, in my view, is the FCC serving as Internet traffic controller, and potentially running roughshod over local broadcasters who have been serving their communities with free content for decades.

The full text of speech is available at Rep. Boehner’s website.