Paul Davis
2 min readDec 15, 2017

Two brief points to make concerning this already far-overhyped “Net Neutrality” issue.

  1. The principal reason this putative 83% of Americans want “net neutrality” is because the propaganda mill you have so aptly and pointedly called out in other contexts has been loudly beating the drums about it … for reasons that I’m sure enure to their own corporate advantages. The catchy nickname helped a lot too. Who isn’t for “neutrality”? Do those 83% have any idea about the complex issues underlying this? Come on.
  2. This is only a tiny example of unelected bureaucrats making rulings that have the effect of laws. If you want to be principled, you need to address the overarching issue: Congress has abdicated its Constitutional responsibility as an equal branch of government by handing the Executive branch the ability to write laws. This is not a new thing: it goes back to the end of the 19th century, when the nascent Progressive movement began laying the foundation for the huge, invasive administrative State we live under today. Their initial motivations were clearly racist and elitist; now they claim to be against racism, but their elitism is an ineluctable feature of the structures they built. “You don’t know how to take care of yourself; you need us smart people to protect you from your own stupidity.” This is the foundational principle for the FDA, the FTC, the USDA, the SEC and the FCC, to name just a few of the alphabet soup of Federal agencies not permitted by the Constitution … the Constitution the Progressives openly proposed abolishing de jure but ending up doing de facto anyway.

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Paul Davis
Paul Davis

Written by Paul Davis

Nomadic writer, realist, voluntaryist, nudist, singer, drummer, harmonica and recorder player, composer, gadfly, runner, troublemaker, survivor so far.

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