FCC Goes .....Ahhhh....Where?

It is widely expected that the FCC will arrogate to itself a new power tomorrow: regulation of the Internet. It will be called "Net Neutrality."

(It's backed by the Communications Workers of America, by the way.)

Anyhow, there's a wider context here which AmSpec's Seton Motley essayed.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has in fact conducted the entire process leading up to this unelected bureaucrat Web power grab shrouded in shadow. One of the many authoritarian facets of this authoritarian procedure has been the lack of any public hearings on the new Internet order on which the FCC is about to vote.

And there's more, which appears to be unrelated. But maybe it's not.

Public hearings would instead be used to drag unfavorables like Rush Limbaugh before the Commission to "explain how they justify" their availing themselves of their First Amendment rights. And to threaten their stations' broadcast licenses should they fail the FCC's definition of "justification."

Al Sharpton (!!!) indicated that he'd visited with FCC Commissioners and, basically, demanded Limbaugh's head.

And Al was likely welcomed by a character named Mark Lloyd:

This particular portion of the FCC trend towards the totalitarian may be explained thusly -- they have in their employ as their inaugural Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd.

Mr. Lloyd has scribbled a few essays and reports, synopses of which can be read at the link.