Take the issue of net-neutrality and add a little Fairness Doctrine and what do you get? The government controlling web content:

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell raised that as a possibility after talking with bloggers at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. McDowell spoke about a recent FCC vote to bar Comcast from engaging in certain Internet practices – expanding the federal agency’s oversight of Internet networks.

The commissioner, a 2006 President Bush appointee, told the Business & Media Institute the Fairness Doctrine could be intertwined with the net neutrality battle. The result might end with the government regulating content on the Web, he warned. McDowell, who was against reprimanding Comcast, said the net neutrality effort could win the support of “a few isolated conservatives” who may not fully realize the long-term effects of government regulation.

It’s bad enough that the government could control what is said on the radio, rather than the free market, but now the spector of content regulation surfaces on the blogosphere. Sounds like something from Communist China rather than America.

Granted, this is an unlikely scenario, but like Commissioner McDowell said, it is possible.

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