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THE HEALING PRESENCE CONFERENCE - JAN 7-10, 2011
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The testimony of Jesus, the Spirit and the Bible tells us that Wisdom is a Person. The insignia of government (authority) and its subsidiary ‘lawfulness’ is on His shoulders. His reign is imbued with the might of God, wonderful counsel and princely peace. One of Jesus’ Names is ‘Light of the World.’ Another is the law of the Spirit of life, meaning that He imparts His Spirit, His harmony and His life to all who live in God through Him.
Harmony is what non-believers do not have and harmony is also what old covenant christians do not have. But those who have Jesus have His peace.
Jesus does not create informed people so much as ‘sons’ who live in God. To live in God is to live in Christ by the Spirit. Jesus said “I AM” because He is. He said, ‘I am Way, Truth and Life’ because He is our door to God, the truth about God, the truth about ourselves, the truth about the world and the life that sustains all.
Jesus is so LIFE (so alive) that He turned the cross, the tree of death and emblem of the knowledge of good and evil into the tree of life – a tree where all may find forgiveness, at-onement, re-instatement and restoration. Restoration to what? Restoration to sonship, to a place in the Father’s royal house. This new birth by the Spirit begins the restoration of a personal and collective life lived in the Spirit. This Spirit-life grows in us, bathing our spirit in the One Spirit of God and increasingly reproducing in us the image of Jesus and the authority of the sons of God.
In the world the knowledge of good and evil produces this current, perverse, chaos that the Bible calls Babylon. To a large extent globalization is the spread of Babylon. But the Kingdom of God in which you operate with authority as a son of God is the new creation. We participate with Christ in the new genesis when we live a new covenant life in Christ.
In the church knowledge by itself produces information without life, values without transformation, talk without Presence, hope without fulfillment, knowledge without wisdom and perspectives without power. I have observed that certain groups of christians are sincere yet cynical. Why? Because personally the law cannot produce the righteousness they espouse and collectively the aims of their church are never be realised. The reason. All who live under law are under a curse. How might we define a curse? A working definition might be failure to live in the infinite life of God and hence failure to reign as God’s sons.
What words might these be? The words that Jesus is the living word and that He us life in itself – unless you eat His flesh and drink His blood in the Spirit, you will die. Unfortunately there a lots of dead people even in charismatic circles who are think they are alive when they are actually dead.
Life in the Spirit of Christ by the One Spirit is the genesis of the new creation. The wise shall shine as the sun because they live in God’s Son. To minister in the Spirit is to minister from the tree of life, distributing choice fruits of love, light, power and authority in living words. Such words spoken forth over the needy contain innate transforming power, because they are the life and Presence of God spoken through you. Jesus is the resurrection and the life in you. You are the hands and feet that multiply what Jesus began. Your life begins to radiate His vitality and your works are distinguished by His power. The lost and wounded will be drawn to you and the Enemy will flee from you. Unfortunately many religious christians will hate you.
‘Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever’ Dan 12.3 NIV.
When human beings became divorced from their Father, they departed the realm of intuitive holiness and entered the bisected, fragmented realm of performance. Here was a realm in which there was always a gulf between what they were and what they aspired to be. In this realm people constantly mistake parts for the whole, having a pathological attraction for living in parts and making religions out of them. Separated from God, humans would now have to perform in order to justify their acceptance with God and themselves. In this state of separation they would attempt to establish their own morality in order to be like God.
Many of them would become so introverted that they would presume to infer that God was like them. Because the remnants of their origins as sons of God lay buried in their slavery, they were sometimes successful in their efforts to achieve the good and eschew the evil. But often they were not and they habitually called good evil and evil good, even as the ways of God receded from their knowledge.
The summit of their folly was seen in the crucifixion of the One who had come to save them from their desiccation. Here among them lived the only One who did good because rather than live in parts, He lived in His Father as an obedient Son. But God is not mocked and their folly exposed the Wisdom of God and saved the people from their sin. Or should I say, it saves those who are careful to believe God’s Son and do what He commands. This means they shift their lives from the unstable sand banks of performance and establish their lives deep rooted in Christ and on Christ the Rock. All because of the love and grace of the Father has made them one with Himself.
There never was a transcript of God’s character until the appearance of Jesus – the exact expression of His being. Moses laws were a check box that made all accountable to God. But these laws were not a transcript of His character, unless we would argue that God too must avoid idolatry, adultery, covetousness and theft. God lives from Himself. His purity is absolute and He is entirely untainted by evil. He never was an expression of the knowledge of good and evil. He expresses Himself in spirit and in truth.
God is not dichotomized, compartmentalized, and separated from Himself in the dualisms that afflict man. God is. He is made in His image, not in ours. He simply is I AM. The good of God is not the opposite of some evil. God’s good is good because I AM is good. God is underived, self-contained righteousness that knows no darkness ( 1 John 1.5) and is distinct from shadows (James 1.17), which is why the righteousness that comes from God Has to be Jesus the son of God. All this so that Jesus becomes the righteousness of God in us.
Humans, on the other hand live a split life. The good that they want to do they cannot do. They live a life bisected between hope and despair, the real and the ideal, wholeness and fragmentation until Jesus comes and opens a door – the door to union with God; the door that makes the two one; the open door that when entered makes man one with God, one with Himself and one with others. So God, man and the creation become one by the One Spirit.
Jesus is the new and living way, quite distinct from the old and dead way of the law of sin and death that grates among our members. This new way is a river of life unto life. The Father has created the opportunity for man to live in Him who is both the ideal and the real, the part and the whole and the resurrection and the life. Thus to live in Him is to become one new and partner with Jesus to multiply the new creation which is the Kingdom of God. To live is Christ. To live is to have Christ live in you and through you. To be alive is to die daily so as to live daily in Jesus.
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” 2 Cor 5.21 NIV.
The carnal man lives in Himself. The spiritual person lives in Christ. The religious man attempts to use Christ to live in himself. The Spiritual man is one whose ‘self’ fades away, even as Christ enlarges him into a king and a priest. The more we decrease the more we grow in stature as a son or daughter of God. The main issue in life is authority. There are those on whom mountains fall and those who move mountains. This life in Christ identifies us as sons of God and furnishes us with the authority to order mountains to move.
‘I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done’ Matt 21.21 NIV.
The ‘letter’ is a term more subtle than ‘the law,’ although it is a variation on it. Unfortunately lectures on church growth, the Kingdom of God and spiritual gifts can all be given in ‘the letter’ which perpetuates the impotence of many saints even while pointing to something better.
For many of God’s people the letter connotes all the things Christians believe they should be doing. The letter to them is both specific as in being nice to people, moral as in not being adulterous, and cultural embracing all the understandings and behaviors that they call ‘christianity.’ All of this is commonly known as ‘the stuff.’ But is it is this stuff that keeps many of God’s people ‘stuffed.’ In this mode they have been baptized into themselves, when what we need is to be baptized into Christ. In Him, Jesus is the righteousness of God in us.
Jesus is the life that replaces our sentence from the tree of death. When for us Christ is all and in all, we live in obedience to the Father. We have life that flows from Christ’s resurrection. But should we stubbornly adhere to the old covenant, or re-formulate the new covenant into our update of the old, we remain subject to a malevolent spirit who has access to our hearts.
1. We are dead because we remain in disobedience to what the Father has done.
2. We are captured by our sinful habits and addictions.
3. We live in agreement with the devil and are subject to his unseen powers.
4. We remain subject to God’s anger (Eph 2.1-3).
Given the above we do not need to be rocket scientists to see what Paul asserts that all who live under law are under a curse.
Life in the letter today is often seen in an attachment to intellectualism (spirit of Greece), attachment to a law oriented denominational identity and a reliance on performance in every aspect of life. There is a subtle spirit that imbues a life in the letter. It is the spirit of robbery and opposes fullness in Christ.
This spirit is a religious spirit with the power to cripple and paralyze. Blind leaders and blind people fall into ditches. They accommodate themselves to their ditch and they live in their ditch with satisfaction and a misguided sense of achievement. Their culture of blindness becomes a lens through which the Bible is interpreted and a filter through which all light is sieved. It is for this reason that those who are rich in their own understanding find it difficult to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Sure they can do church, multiply religion and operate in some of the gifts of the Spirit but they do not possess the executive authority of the Kingdom of God.
Jesus lived in His Father totally, which is why He calls us to live in Him unconditionally. He was righteous, not because He lived according to criteria, but because He lived from within His Father. He has made a way for us to do this; made a living way for us to live in Him. The cross gives us our life back, the blood guarantees His grace and the Spirit achieves the miracle of our union with God. But the excellence of life in the Spirit of Christ is the reproduction of Himself in us. He forms us as sons – persons who reign to multiply the new creation. Those who live in Jesus are daily re-breathed as a new creation. We are alive in Him by the One Spirit. The sacrament of the Lord’s supper is a sign of that which is already a reality: our union with God in Jesus. We eat the bread and drink the wine as a sign that our life is in Jesus and Jesus is our life.
‘The person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him’ ! Cor 6.17 NLT.
‘We are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago’ Eph 2.10 NLT.
What good thing did He plan? He planned that we be daughters and sons to reign on the earth with Him. Yes dear friends. There’s a lot more to it than ‘getting to heaven.’ It’s about expanding the Kingdom of God’s sons on earth.
‘There is one body and one Spirit one Lord, one faith, one baptism one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all’ Eph. 4.4-6 (NIV )
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Man Banned from Wal-Mart for Masturbating in the Toy Aisle
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A lot of bad stuff goes on inside Wal-Marts, but the company will not abide a man pleasuring himself in the toy aisle and wiping his hand on a toy lightsaber. William Tyler Black received a lifetime ban for this.
Clean-up in aisle... for Christssake. We thought the Wal-Mart employee horror stories we heard a couple months ago were bad, but imagine the poor guy or gal who had to clean up the result of William Tyler Black's, uh, issuance. 28-year-old Black was arrested Sept. 18th in Florida for masturbating in the toy aisle to a copy of the Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit edition. And he wiped his hand on a toy lightsaber! (Must have been a Star Trek fan.)
Now The Smoking Gun reports he's been banned for life from Wal-Mart. So he'll just move to New York and jack off onto the sidewalk like a normal pervert.
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Politically Correct Jews Light the National 'Holiday Candelabra'
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Suspect in Ronni Chasen Murderer Shoots Himself
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As police went to serve a warrant on a man described as a suspect in the case of murdered Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, he shot himself dead. Meanwhile, a retired investigator says she was killed by an "expert marksman."
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TSA Coming to Bus Stations
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TSA Coming to Bus Stations
I wonder how long it’ll be before people are getting groped (by professional security personnel, I mean) on the DC Metro?
I found a few things interesting about this video:
- No naked scanners (yet), but they are wearing the blue gloves that don’t get changed from person to person and can transmit diseases and parasites.
- Among the various federal personnel interviewed is “Steve McDonald, US Border Patrol.” People getting on a bus in Florida are not likely to be leaving the country and are hundreds of miles away from either the Mexican or Canadian borders; why aren’t the Border Patrol actually out there patrolling the borders with anywhere near the thoroughness they’re using on American citizens?
- Funny how they get bomb/drug-sniffing dogs while airports don’t. Must be because this is a Greyhound terminal.
- The program is called VIPAR: “Visible Intermodal Prevention And Response”. Note the word “Visible” right at the beginning – it’s there because this is yet another variation of the TSA’s Security Theater. They also mention later the security is “on display”.
- They only showed one passenger giving a (positive) opinion. How many passengers did they have to interview before they got him?
I’m surprised that the TSA’s next move was the private company Greyhound and not the federally run and subsidized Amtrak.
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Amazon.com Evicts Wikileaks. Who's Next?
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Under pressure from Sen. Joe Lieberman, Amazon.com kicked WikiLeaks.org off its servers. But why stop there? There's all kinds of controversial customers the cowardly but remarkably convenient e-tailer can flee from.
Take Hillary Clinton. Wikileaks revealed the Secretary of State to have "illegally" spied on the United Nations, but she remains welcome in Amazon's books section.
Of course, Clinton didn't disseminate thousands of secret diplomatic cables. Or actually, wait, she did, but through incompetence rather than intention. So maybe she doesn't make Amazon cower quite like Wikileaks does.
What about the New York Times? The high-minded newspaper, whose editorial page considers itself a First Amendment champion, is a partner on Amazon.com's Kindle; publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. even appeared on stage with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos to introduce a new model of the e-reader (see top picture).
And yet the newspaper went out of its way to get early access to the confidential diplomatic cables obtained by its sometime partner Wikileaks, and published much of the information they contained. The newspaper almost certainly violated the ridiculous Espionage Act in the process. Will Amazon evict the New York Times from the Kindle then? Or perhaps wipe the offending information remotely, George Orwell style, as Amazon has shown itself perfectly capable of doing?
Then there's the Guardian, which also published Wikileaks data. The newspaper is listed as a customer of the same Amazon.com online services division that ejected Wikileaks. As is the Washington Post, which is also an Amazon partner delivering Kindle content, and which is no stranger to publishing controversial stories. In fact, it's no stranger to the sort of State Department leaks Wikileaks is now trafficking. The Post, you'll recall, revealed the existence of secret overseas CIA torture sites; a CIA analyst was later fired for purportedly leaking the data to the newspaper.
All of which is to say that Amazon's unclear content standards will create a lot of confusion among its customers, clients and partners. As a private sector corporation, the company is of course free to pick and choose what it wants to sell and what bits it wants to serve. But the parties that do business with Amazon don't want the uncertainty that comes from dealing with a weak-willed, unpredictable retailer. And avid readers with diverse tastes and a healthy appetite for controversy are unlikely to enjoy doing business with Amazon if they think the company is censorious. It's bad enough that it's in competition with adorable local booksellers.
Which is why it's a big strike against the company that the criteria for getting kicked off Amazon is now totally unclear. Wikileaks, for example, is far from a clear cut case; the group is facing heat in Congress and from the State Department, as is Amazon, but no one has been convicted of any crimes in connection with this new data dump, or even formally charged.
Meanwhile, until the internet noticed and got upset, Amazon was content to sell "A Pedophile's Guide." Here's how the company defended that title, before backing down and yanking the e-book:
Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable
Indeed it is. It's also amazing how quickly those high-minded ideals have been discarded, not just for pedophilia books but for actual relevant information about government wrongdoing: Amazon issued the above quoted statement less than a month ago. Now it's busy handling the holiday shopping crush. Don't forget to take advantage of the Free Super Saver Shipping — or the McCarthyite repression, delivered faster than ever before.
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Xbox-Modding Judge Berates Prosecution, Puts Trial on Hold
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Xbox-Modding Judge Berates Prosecution, Puts Trial on Hold
Xbox modding defendant Matthew Crippen (David Kravets/Wired.com)
LOS ANGELES — Opening statements in the first-of-its kind Xbox 360 criminal hacking trial were delayed here Wednesday after a federal judge unleashed a 30-minute tirade at prosecutors in open court, saying he had “serious concerns about the government’s case.”
“I really don’t understand what we’re doing here,” U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez roared from the bench.
Gutierrez slammed the prosecution over everything from alleged unlawful behavior by government witnesses, to proposed jury instructions harmful to the defense. When the verbal assault finally subsided, federal prosecutors asked for a recess to determine whether they would offer the defendant a deal, dismiss or move forward with the case that was slated to become the first jury trial of its type. A jury was seated Tuesday.
Among the judge’s host of complaints against the government was his alarm that prosecutors would put on two witnesses who may have broken the law.
One is Entertainment Software Association investigator Tony Rosario, who secretly video-recorded defendant Matthew Crippen allegedly performing the Xbox mod in Crippen’s Los Angeles suburban house. The defense argues that making the recording violates California privacy law. The other witness is Microsoft security employee Ken McGrail, who analyzed the two consoles Crippen allegedly altered. McGrail admitted that he himself had modded Xboxes in college.
“Maybe two of the four government witnesses committed crimes,” the judge said from the bench. “I think it is relevant and the jury is going to hear about it –- both crimes.”
The government had fought to keep the witness conduct a secret from the jury.
Crippen is charged with two counts of violating the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and faces a maximum five years for each count if convicted. The government maintains Crippen, a hotel car-parking manager, ran a small business from his Anaheim home modifying the firmware on Xbox 360 optical drives to make them capable of running pirated copies of games.
The judge on Wednesday even backtracked on an earlier ruling that had prohibited Crippen, 28, from raising a “fair use” defense at trial.
Crippen was hoping to argue to jurors that it was legal to hack the consoles because the modification had non-infringing purposes, like allowing the machines to run homebrew software, or permitting limited fair use of copyright material such as backup copies of video games.
While the judge ruled last week that such a defense was not permitted by the DMCA, he seemingly changed course during his speech.
“The only way to be able to play copied games is to circumvent the technology,” Gutierrez said. “How about backup games and the homebrewed?”
The fair-use issue came up as the judge berated prosecutor Allen Chiu’s proposed jury instructions, which included the assertion that the government need not prove that Crippen “willfully” breached the law, in what is known as “mens rea” in legal parlance. The judge noted that the government’s own intellectual property crimes manual concerning the 1998 DMCA says the defendant has to have some knowledge that he was breaking the law.
“The first prosecution 12 years later, and you’re suggesting a mens rea that is akin to exactly contrary to the IP manual: that ignorance of the law is no excuse?” the judge barked.
“You didn’t even propose a middle ground,” Gutierrez continued. “What’s getting me more riled, it seems to me I cannot communicate the severity to you of what’s going on here.”
As the judge worked through his laundry list of complaints over the prosecution, word of the unusual judicial rebuke spread through the courthouse, drawing a trickle of about a dozen prosecutors and defense attorneys into the courtroom to watch from the gallery.
“I apologize to the court,” Chiu said at the end.
Court is recessed until 1:30 p.m.
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FCC Announces Net Neutrality Order for December Meeting
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FCC Announces Net Neutrality Order for December Meeting
By Sam Gustin
Five years after the federal government first began considering rules designed to keep the internet free from meddling by the huge phone and cable companies, the nation’s top communications regulator is finally set to take action. But the agency’s approach means the case will almost certainly wind up in federal court.
On December 21st, the Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on rules to protect network neutrality, the principle that broadband companies shouldn’t block or degrade rival web content, services or applications. The FCC said Wednesday that Chairman Julius Genachowski would address the topic in a live webcast starting at 10:30 a.m. ET during which he was expected to outline the agency’s approach.
President Obama included net neutrality in his campaign promises, but even before the Republicans took over the House in the November elections, there was fierce resistance from Republicans and members of Obama’s own party.
Genachowski appears to have the votes needed — at least three out of the five commissioners — to establish the new rules under so-called “Title 1″ authority, a centrist approach that shies away from reclassifying broadband as a “Title II” communications service, a move fiercely opposed by the telecommunications industry. Still, any move to establish net neutrality rules will likely cause a political firestorm with Republicans and centrist Democrats in Congress.
On the eve of the decision, a bitter war of words erupted between cable giant Comcast and internet backbone provider Level 3 over broadband policy.
The spat was prompted by revelations that the nation’s largest cable company could interfere with Netflix, the upstart online movie service that competes with Comcast’s own video offering Xfinity. One of Level 3’s biggest clients is Netflix, whose customers account for an estimated 20 percent of net traffic during peak evening hours.
Comcast wants to charge Level 3 more for the increased bandwidth usage; Level 3 doesn’t want to pay. Comcast says it’s a business dispute; Level 3 calls it a matter of internet freedom.
The FCC said it is investigating.
The fight between the two corporate giants provoked an explosive reaction from net neutrality proponents and activist groups who marshaled their forces for a last ditch effort to sway the FCC. In less than 48 hours, over 80,000 people had signed an online petition urging the FCC to act to “stop this type of abuse — and protect Net Neutrality.”
Many advocates of net neutrality believe that the most effective way to ensure internet freedom — in the long term — is through new legislation from Congress. But with anti-regulatory Republicans taking over the House of Representatives there is virtually no chance of that happening for at least two years. So, advocates say, it’s up to Genachowski.
Republicans have been lashing out at possible FCC action for years. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the outspoken Tennessee Republican who sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pledged Tuesday to overturn the rules.
“This is a hysterical reaction by the FCC to a hypothetical problem,” said Blackburn. Genachowski “has little if any congressional support for net neutrality.”
Since her election in 2002 to represent the “Volunteer State,” Rep. Blackburn has received $114,000 in campaign payments from AT&T, Verizon, and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association; her second, third, and fifth top career contributors, respectively, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Meanwhile, AT&T met with FCC Chief of Staff Edward Lazarus six times in the last month to make its views on the matter known.
In many ways, the net neutrality argument has mirrored a broader philosophical debate — all too familiar to Americans — about the role of government in the United States.
Huge corporations and their ideological allies have advocated a vision of free market capitalism unfettered by burdensome regulation that, they argue, threatens to hamper their businesses. Public interest groups and consumer advocates have argued that regulation is needed to protect people and the market itself from abuse by the nation’s highly profitable and politically connected cable and telecom companies.
The internet is different from other industries that have become flash-points for the debate over government regulation. There is no catastrophic oil-slick befouling the coastline and devastating local economies. There is no institutionalized system of mortgage fraud or predatory lending. There is no out-of-control speculation on toxic investments that nearly bankrupted the country.
In this case, a de facto state of net neutrality exists on the internet at present.
Most people take this idea for granted every day while using online services, devices, browsers and software. To the big cable and telecom giants like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner Cable, ignorance = money. So, they’ve compared new rules enforcing internet freedom to a “solution without a problem.”
But net neutrality rules are critically important to the health of the internet, advocates argue, because without them cable and telephone giants could block or slow down certain types of content, like bittorrent or YouTube, prevent or discriminate against against certain web services and applications like Netflix or Skype, or even censor free speech on websites they deem objectionable.
They could also try to create a private, ultrafast virtual highway designed for their own next-generation video products — think bandwidth-intensive applications like 3D-video to the home.
This cleaving of the internet could have grave and unintended consequences because it could decrease the incentive and the possibility for smart young entrepreneurs to create the next Google or Facebook or YouTube on the newly “public” internet, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken to calling it.
In short, advocates argue, net neutrality is like a First Amendment for the 21st century: the broadband giants shall not infringe upon the freedom to access the open internet.
For their part, net neutrality opponents seem content simply to ask Americans to trust Comcast, AT&T and Verizon to respect internet openness and freedom, or to be forced to respond to customer outrage.
We’ll self-govern, the cable and telecom giants say.
Ask yourself: do you trust these companies to look out for your rights?
One year ago, the FCC seemed well on its way to implementing basic net neutrality rules and even expanding them to cover wireless as well.
But last April, a federal court ruled that the agency lacked the authority to enforce the principles established in 2004 by then-FCC Chairman Michael Powell, a Bush-appointee. Those simple principles held that consumers had the right to use the devices, software and online services of their choice, and have competition between ISPs. Genachowski had hoped to expand on those, but now even those most basic rights appear to have no basis in law.
Powell’s successor, Bush-appointee Kevin Martin, used those principles in 2008 to sanction cable giant Comcast for blocking peer-to-peer traffic. But the court ruled that Comcast was correct: the Bush-era deregulation of broadband, had, in fact, eviscerated the FCC’s power to enforce the rules.
That leaves the FCC where it is now — largely powerless over internet policy and facing a political juggernaut from Republicans and their well-funded cable and telecom allies. See you in court.
(Updated 12:16 a.m. 12/1 to include FCC announcement.)
(Updated 9:18 a.m. 12/1 to include word of Genachowski webcast)
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