Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Free speech is important, it’s not just an excuse to say or do stupid things. The power hungry sect of the government and the media have been trying to silence the speech they don’t like for years. They don’t like the fact that millions of people are now able to get their news from other places instead of just the major tv networks. They hate that they can no longer control the message. If you are paying attention you can see that most, if not all of the networks and major newspapers all get the same talking points when it comes to politics, which used to work out well for them; they were trusted and were able to create the narrative, no matter the truth or facts of the situation. With the internet and social media they have lost that ability, and with it -trust. Anyone with a cell phone can now take pictures and videos and upload it to twitter, youtube, facebook etc within seconds. The media and politicians do not like this, they hate it when people start having the ability to think for themselves. By the way, this is not new, they tried it with the fairness doctrine because they hated that conservative radio and sites were so popular and felt like they had too much influence and that that was unfair, they lost that fight. Now the feds are up to it again under the guise of "fairness" here's a quote from the story Democrats have advocated for expanding the agency's power, arguing that social networking websites such as Twitter and new media outlets like the Drudge Report are wielding undue influence. That’s why Obama cannot be allowed to give control away of the internet, because with that control so goes free speech. Ted Cruz has been fighting this hard, a pull quote from the article...
“Under the guardianship of the United States and the First Amendment the internet has become truly an oasis of freedom, but that could soon change,” Cruz said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, which he chairs.
How soon after taking over will they start denying domain names to news sites and blogs etc... that they do not like. And no amount of crying about your first amendment rights will help, it will fall on deaf ears, it will be too late. The internet was born in America, there is no reason to give the control away, you have to ask yourself why is Obama doing this? I think the answer is clear.
