Swamp Secrets w/ @Andrew_Langer & @ThomasASchatz
The Biden administration is waging all-out war on easy, inexpensive, and widespread access to the Internet. Andrew Langer welcomes President of Citizens Against Government Waste Thomas Schatz to discuss on Swamp Secrets.
The Obama administration first introduced the concept of net neutrality as regulations that restricted internet access, innovation, and price cuts.
“The first time they did this it stifled innovation, and now, when we have repealed net neutrality regulations under Obama-Biden, the internet is flourishing,” Schatz explains. “We have greater access, more innovation, more ability to get that information and prices are not going up faster than inflation.”
Now, the Biden administration is reintroducing net neutrality and citing a need to remedy so-called ‘digital discrimination’.
“This is something that sounded innocuous. It was part of the infrastructure bill that was passed in Congress and it was [a] paragraph, and they started looking into it. They held hearings across the country, meaning the FCC, and at the end they said, ‘We don’t find anything.’ It makes sense that they didn’t because when someone is connecting people to the internet, it is everyone in the neighborhood would like to be connected…It’s not based on anything other than location, period. It doesn’t matter who lives there, rich, poor, black, white, whatever,” Schatz says.
The Biden administration disregarded these findings and pushed through hundreds of regulations that actually restrict access to the Internet. CPAC Foundation’s Center for Regulatory Freedom opposed these regulations for the unnecessary burdens it places on average Americans and its expansion of the power of the administrative state. Though these digital discrimination regulations have already been adopted, the new net neutrality regulations are still in the comment period and the Foundation for Regulatory Freedom continues to advocate for awareness of the reality of net neutrality and to prevent the adoption of additional regulations.
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