Last week, a Republican Senate investigative report released by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee concluded that President Obama employed “undue influence” to lean on the independent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to go beyond net neutrality and adopt tough new rules that put broadband providers in the same legal category as tightly regulated monopoly telephone companies.
“It should be highly concerning that an independent agency like the FCC could be so unduly influenced by the White House, particularly on an issue that touches the lives of so many Americans and has such a significant impact on a critical sector of the United States economy,” the report said.
Obama’s unusually public role in the net neutrality debate is well known, but what about the “undue influence” the progressive left wielded over the independent agency while quietly acting in coordination with the White House?A look back at the events leading up to the FCC implementing Obama’s Internet plan shows a well-coordinated and well-funded campaign to hijack U.S. regulatory policy and influence commerce and public discourse on the Internet for decades to come.
White House visitor logs show that back in September 2014, R. David Edelman, special assistant to the President for Economic and Technology Policy at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) held a meeting with thirty netroots activist groups, including Free Press, Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, Daily Kos, and Public Knowledge as well as multiple liberal PR and campaign strategists that together have received more than $2 million from the Ford Foundation to develop strategy on net neutrality since 2009.
“It should be highly concerning that an independent agency like the FCC could be so unduly influenced by the White House, particularly on an issue that touches the lives of so many Americans and has such a significant impact on a critical sector of the United States economy,” the report said.
Obama’s unusually public role in the net neutrality debate is well known, but what about the “undue influence” the progressive left wielded over the independent agency while quietly acting in coordination with the White House?A look back at the events leading up to the FCC implementing Obama’s Internet plan shows a well-coordinated and well-funded campaign to hijack U.S. regulatory policy and influence commerce and public discourse on the Internet for decades to come.
White House visitor logs show that back in September 2014, R. David Edelman, special assistant to the President for Economic and Technology Policy at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) held a meeting with thirty netroots activist groups, including Free Press, Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, Daily Kos, and Public Knowledge as well as multiple liberal PR and campaign strategists that together have received more than $2 million from the Ford Foundation to develop strategy on net neutrality since 2009.
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