Constitution? What Constitution? Nothing stands in the way of ever-bigger government!

WASHINGTON – The head of the Federal Communications Commission has enough support to pass controversial new rules that will prohibit phone and cable companies from discriminating against or favoring Internet traffic flowing over their broadband networks.

More than a year after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski pledged to put in place so-called “network neutrality” regulations, the agency is poised to adopt those rules at a meeting on Tuesday.

“Net neutrality” is a phrase that would make Orwell proud. The rules actually give the federal government more power over the internet.

The internet is a free-flowing information highway that bolsters the First Amendment and allows for individuals to become educated on the issues of the day. A big government that seeks to control the lives of the people can’t tolerate such freedom. So it needs to control it. Under the guise of protecting you from big bad companies, of course.