Internet/Telecom

The coronavirus shutdowns have acutely and starkly highlighted the differences between Big Government states and Less Government states.

Our polarized Internet world has generated at least one area of extraordinary bipartisan consensus: 77 percent of Americans agree Google, Facebook, and Amazon have too much power.

The US Department of Justice has issued a wish list of reform laws aimed directly at the big Internet media giants.

The coin of the Internet realm – is your digital data. Everything you do is tracked and monetized.

Network Neutrality is a top-down, government-centric Internet policy – for which the Left has pushed for more than a decade.

Google has government rig the private sector to its advantage. And it bigfoot crushes competitors. And failing that – it buys them.

The left has always targeted the internet as a new way to grow the size and scope of government.

The challenge for the FCC has been, and will continue to be, to fill the “spectrum pipeline” with more available spectrum to meet the ever-increasing demand by consumers.

Companies that allegedly practice “surveillance capitalism” have become seemingly inescapable in our modern economy, leading a host of critics to explain the many ways those like Facebook and Google threaten our lives and freedoms.

Occasionally a Leftist here or there inadvertently swerves into correctness on this or that issue. But almost always, the Left is profoundly and loudly wrong.

And so does the US Left.  Though our Democrat Party is still playing it a little more coy.

One of the largest, ongoing, rolling government scams? Using taxpayer money to fund “research” – so as to generate “studies.” And governments spend a LOT of our money – on “research” to generate “studies.”

Nothing good can come from growing government interference with the internet.