Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn spoke on her work to protect your privacy and to keep our Internet free.

Your blogger has just stepped into a breakout session at the Defending the American Dream Conference.  On going is a discussion on Internet Freedom and the current speaker is Cong. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.

Blackburn is discussing the dangers of Barack Obama and the liberals’ dangerous regulations that are coming.

She mentioned how banks are no longer hiring people in their front line services and hiring more in compliance services to deal with so many new regulations.

As with the banks, Internet regulations would compromise your privacy.  In short, we must make those calls to to prevent  the so-called “net neutrality”.  As one attendee pointed out, the Internet is already neutral.

Blackburn added “this is a hysterical reaction to a hypothetical problem.”

Blackburn therefore continues to push against this “problem”.  Phil Kerpin, of the sponsoring Americans for Prosperity,  says that competition will prevent whatever problems the government fears will happen.  If the government takes over our Internet, competition will cease, bringing expansion to a halt.  Certain anti-government websites could be blocked.  Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost.

Seton Motley of the Less Government Foundation, spoke on the dangers of implementing Obama's "Net Neutrality" legislation.

KCC’s friend, Seton Motley with the Less Government Foundation, spoke next.  He said that this is an example of applying old laws to new technologies.   Government has not done anything with the Internet since 1996, a long time ago in terms of technology.

In those fifteen years, the Internet has thrived and grown, thanks to the lack of outside interference.

Motley believes that the Internet cannot be crammed into one category.  Its many things.  Same with smart phones.   Sure you can make phone calls, but the do so much more.

Not long ago, a lefty group saw books from the Bible online and realized they had no way to stop it.

The race to regulation often happens in the presence of fear, concluded Motley.

Editor’s Note: This post was blogged live on KCC’s Samsung Galaxy 10.1 on the 4G LTE  Verizon Network.  If Network Neutrality passes, companies like Verizon and AT&T will cease to invest in their networks, as they will no longer have the incentive to do so.

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