The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on November 15th on a plan from the Biden administration that would give the administrative state effective control of all internet services and infrastructure in the country, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said.

“Next week, the FCC will vote on President Biden’s plan to give the Administrative State effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure. I oppose President Biden’s sweeping, unprecedented, and unlawful plan,” Carr said last week.

“So last month, President Biden gave the FCC its marching orders. The President called on the FCC to implement a one-page section of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Infrastructure Act) by adopting new rules of breathtaking scope, all in the name of ‘digital equity,'” Carr said in a statement.

“For the first time ever, those rules would give the federal government a roving mandate to micromanage nearly every aspect of how the Internet functions—from how ISPs allocate capital and where they build, to the services that consumers can purchase; from the profits that ISPs can realize and how they market and advertise services, to the discounts and promotions that consumers can receive. Talk about central planning,” he continued.

“Needless to say, Congress never contemplated the sweeping regulatory regime that President Biden asked the FCC to adopt—let alone authorized the agency to implement it. Nonetheless, the Commission will vote next week, on November 15th, to put President Biden’s plan in place. A draft of the FCC order implementing President Biden’s plan is available here. I oppose the plan for several reasons,” he added.

“President Biden’s plan hands the Administrative State effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the country. Never before, in the roughly 40-year history of the public Internet, has the FCC (or any federal agency for that matter) claimed this degree of control over it,” Carr’s statement continued.

“Indeed, President Biden’s plan calls for the FCC to apply a far-reaching set of government controls that the agency has not applied to any technology in the modern era, including Title II common carriers. The closest analog would be the heavy-handed rules the FCC applied to the Ma Bell telephone monopoly during the height of the New Deal era—a copper wire period of time when it was hard to distinguish between government regulator and telephone provider,” the statement added.

Read the full statement:

Carr on Friday reiterated his stance against the Biden administration’s plan.

“President Biden has called on the FCC to issue a sweeping set of new regulations in the name of ‘digital equity.’ For the first time ever, those rules would empower the Administrative State to micromanage nearly every aspect of how the Internet functions. I’m a no,” he said.

“According to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, the Biden administration is planning to hand the administrative state ‘effective control of all internet services.’ Team Biden claims this for ‘digital equity’, but if all this is true, it could be the END of free speech online,” Glenn Beck wrote.

Beck discusses the plan in this clip:

“Instead of trying to find a solution that meets everyone’s needs, however, Carr alleged that the Biden administration has only worked to block these efforts,” NewsBusters stated.

Per NewsBusters:

“Fiber and cell site components are laying fallow in warehouses and laydown yards across the country due to the government’s failure to remove regulatory red tape. Permitting reform has gone nowhere,” he added. “And the Biden Administration is preparing to waste additional taxpayer dollars through its multi-billion dollar ‘Internet for all’ initiative by pursuing extraneous political goals at the expense of connecting Americans.”

Carr said Biden’s plan of “digital equity” would allow the government to control everything from the availability of service to discounts and promotions.

“Congress never contemplated the sweeping regulatory regime that President Biden asked the FCC to adopt—let alone authorized the agency to implement it,” he concluded.

He also compared the plan to something out of Soviet Russia.

“The FCC reserves the right under this plan to regulate both ‘actions and omissions, whether recurring or a single instance,’” he said. “In other words, if you take any action, you may be liable, and if you do nothing, you may be liable. There is no path to complying with this standardless regime. It reads like a planning document drawn up in the faculty lounge of a university’s Soviet Studies Department.”

The Commission will vote on Biden’s plan on Nov. 15.

Read the FCC order to implement the Biden administration’s plan HERE.

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