Is American Radio, TV, & Internet Headed for Censorship?

Obama Told China Open Internet & His People Are Planning To Eliminate Free Speech

Elitist Progressive Barack Hussein Obama when in China gave a speech on free press and open access internet.  That must be for China.  Obama shows every indication of the opposite for America.  When you disagree with this administration the vindictive attacks by Obama and his minions is harsh and relentless.

The entire Obama Administration for weeks attacked FOX News because they report what Obama doesn’t like; the truth.  Beginning last summer Obama has been attacking conservative talk radio.  If he can find a way he will shut down conservative talk radio.  Why, these attacks?  They don’t toe the line and bow in Obama’s presence.  They report what Obama doesn’t want you to know.

Now his people are looking at how to control the internet.  Restrict what you can receive on the internet.  All of this sounds horribly familiar.  China, Cuba, and Venezuela to name a few countries that Obama appears to use as a model for American radio, TV, and press.

This is a preview of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s National Broadband Plan.  With all that we have thus far seen, things look quite grim from a free speech, free market perspective.  The groundwork for government information totalitarianism favored by people like Hugo Chavez-loving FCC "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd and Marxist "media reform"-outfit Free Press founder Robert McChesney is being laid in the Plan being crafted by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

The Center for American Progress (liberal) (at which Lloyd was then a Senior Fellow) and McChesney's Free Press co-authored the deeply flawed, anti-conservative and Christian talk radio "report" entitled The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.

But their shared disdain for free speech and the free market extend way beyond just this.   These "media reformers" seek to eradicate most or all private ownership of all information delivery - be it by radio, television or the internet - thereby leaving the federal government as sole purveyor.

In his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce, Lloyd called for the FCC to charge private broadcast companies 100% of their operating budgets for their broadcast licenses.  He also called for heavy fines to be levied on these stations for failing to meet his vast and expansive (not to mention warped) definitions of diversity and localism. Lloyd called for all of this money to be handed to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in other words, government radio and television. 

McChesney has said of "media reform":
"Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself." 

And: "Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism. It is impossible to conceive of a better world with a media system that remains under the thumb of Wall Street and Madison Avenue, under the thumb of the owning class." 

And: "The last thing we want to do, however, is rebuild the old media system....We want to democratize the media system so that people without property can play a much larger role in the media and in political life. The result of such democratization will, in my view, be a marked shift to the political Left."

On so-called "net neutrality," McChesney offers: "At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control." 

So if Lloyd's views win the day in radio and television, and McChesney's do the same on the internet and with "smart" cell phones, we are left with government - and only government - providing us with news and information.  The First Amendment implications of this are frightening.  How amenable will the government be to allowing its radio, television and internet to be used for speech critical of - the government?

America Obama and his people want to destroy the First Amendment.  They want total control of all information that you get.  That isn’t freedom, that isn’t America, that is 3rd world socialism.  Is that the change you wanted America?
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