L.A. Liberty

The Government and the Internet

You and I both know how hard it would have been for the incredible growth the liberty movement has seen in recent years to have taken place without the Internet.

So right now, the big government statists in Congress are scheming to suffocate the technological revolution in a ball of bureaucratic red tape.

Their excuse?

Our well-meaning government overlords are going to “protect consumers” like you and me with “net neutrality,” “open access,” and, of course, their favorite – “cybersecurity.”

But dig a little deeper, and you will find all we’ll get is higher costs, new taxes, lost or slower access - and government snoops expanding their “data mining” capabilities to spy on our every move.

In fact, just recently, we’ve seen a torrent of massive new regulatory schemes rearing their ugly heads in Congress, including:

*** Internet Sales Taxes designed to hike the price of goods sold over the Internet;

*** The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would give the government the power to shut down any website simply because someone made the “allegation” there was a copyright violation;

*** The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which would gut privacy laws and allow Internet providers and websites to hand over personal data to ANY agency in the federal government;

*** The Internet “Kill Switch,” which would allow the President to shut down the entire Internet at a moment’s notice.

And this December, the United Nations is meeting to come up with even MORE recommendations for international Internet regulations!

The Wall Street Journal called it “a wake-up call for the world’s two billion web users, who take for granted the light regulation of the Internet.”

Please remind me, what exactly is it about the government that represents your views?