{"id":32024,"date":"2017-11-24T20:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T01:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32024"},"modified":"2017-11-24T20:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T01:32:42","slug":"common-sense-from-the-wall-street-journal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32024","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense From The Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/11\/24\/wsj-editorial-board-endorses-fcc-chairmans-roll-back-of-net-neutrality-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> is reporting today that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Wall Street Journal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wall_Street_Journal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Editorial board\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Editorial_board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">editorial board<\/a> supports the repeal of the \u201c<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Net neutrality\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Net_neutrality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">net neutrality<\/a>\u201d rules that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Communications Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8834,-77.0288&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8834,-77.0288 (Federal%20Communications%20Commission)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Federal Communications Commission (FCC)<\/a> put into effect in 2015. I am the first person to admit that I do not understand the concept of net neutrality, but generally anything that interferes with the free market is not a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports the correct way to deal with this issue:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">National Review<\/a> also endorsed Pai\u2019s (Ajit Pai, Chairman of the FCC) decision, specifically saying that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Congress)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Congress<\/a>, not an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Independent agencies of the United States government\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">independent federal agency<\/a>, should consider rules through legislation to help solve any potential issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cIf Congress wants net neutrality, then Congress can pass a law and let the FCC enforce it. It isn\u2019t up to the FCC to create sweeping new policy on its own,\u201d the editorial board for the National Review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/453984\/net-neutrality-not-needed-not-fccs-job\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Wednesday. \u201cThat kind of lawlessness ran rampant in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Obama administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/obama-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Obama administration<\/a>, and the Trump administration is undertaking important work in undoing it, from the FCC to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Environmental Protection Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">EPA<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We need to get to the point where Congress (elected by the people) makes the laws. Unelected officials should not be making laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller is reporting today that The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s editorial board supports the repeal of the \u201cnet neutrality\u201d rules that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put into effect in 2015. I am the first person to admit that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32024\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7137,1113,3404,8728,285],"class_list":["post-32024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ajit-pai","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-internet-service-provider","tag-net-neutrality","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32025,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024\/revisions\/32025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}