The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today held the Federal Trade Commission can seize privately owned websites if they don’t promote their competitors.
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The March Towards Internet Totalitarianism
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It just gets stupider and stupider.
Well we do link to Paul Krugman occassionally, so we should be safe.
It would be nice if the official Fed website occassionally linked to lewrockwell.com or this website though for critical opinions. However laws don’t apply to lawmakers apparently.
FTC Section 5 seems to be the problem.
Who is John Galt?
Exactly what I was thinking. This sounds like the “Anti-dog-eat-dog” law for railroads in Atlas Shrugged. When I read Atlas Shrugged I thought it was intentionally overly exaggerated to get the point across.. but looking at this, evidently not..
WTF is this? They may as well just say “We’ll do what we want when we want.” Can they seize the domain if it’s owned by a non-american?
Just great : ( This ranks up there with fake net neutrality put out by the Obama admin.
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