House Speaker John A. Boehner lashed out against efforts to regulate Internet traffic before an audience of evangelical Christian media leaders...In a speech to religious broadcasters that received a sustained ovation at his conclusion, he said free expression is under attack by a power structure in Washington populated with regulators who have never set foot inside a radio station or a television studio.
“We see this threat in how the FCC is creeping further into the free market by trying to regulate the Internet,” Mr. Boehner said.
“The last thing we need, in my view, is the FCC serving as Internet traffic controller, and potentially running roughshod over local broadcasters who have been serving their communities with free content for decades,” he said to loud applause from members of the National Religious Broadcasters, a trade group holding its annual convention here.
...Mr. Boehner also inveighed against any effort to reinstate the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” whose 1987 elimination led to the rise of a vibrant talk-radio industry.
“Our new majority is committed to seeing that the government does not reinstate the Fairness Doctrine,” he said.
Mr. Boehner said Rep. Greg Walden, Oregon Republican, “has teamed up with another former broadcaster, Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana, to introduce legislation to help keep the airwaves free. I expect the House to act on this measure as well.”
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allow me to retort
boner is a two faced liar
there is no attempt to reintroduce the fairness doctrine, and his social conservatives have been trying to regulate the internet since its inception
why dont you give his office a call and ask why he keeps killing the net neutrality bills?
and the airwaves arent free...the people own them, and licenses are purchased....but the repukes have allowed too few to own too many media outlets in one area...its a joke
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