Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will [take] an unprecedented step to expand government’s reach into the Internet by attempting to regulate its inner workings. In doing so, the agency will circumvent Congress and disregard a recent court ruling.
Thus begins the lead article from today’s Wall Street Journal. As though that weren’t enough, we find these other recent headlines as well.
New UN committee could hand governments internet control
Who Will Control the Internet?
Venezuela’s Chavez calls for internet controls
The First Amendment, protecting freedom of speech, came into effect on December 15, 1791. Radio did not come until 115 years later, television many years after that. Yet these new media were always considered part of the Fourth Estate, more commonly known as “the press”. The internet is no less than the latest iteration of journalistic media and should be treated as such. It must and it will remain open in the free world. It is too big to fail.
RANDOM THOTS 
This has got to be stopped!! I pray for the new Republicans to launch an attack on the government beuracracies and effectively get them back in line with the desires of the American People.