Ok, that's a joke. The FCC has no soul.

But it's no less interesting that FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell had this to say:

McDowell, one of the FCC’s two Republican members, said that he found such ideas “troubling,” noting that he had been assured by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski that Lloyd’s duties would be confined to civil rights and diversity in broadband.
 
“I find such ideas troubling,” McDowell told CNSNews.com. “Certainly, he has a right to express them. The chairman, as CEO of the commission, has, I guess, a right to employ him. And I’ve been told by him and the chairman that he’s working on other matters not related to those issues.”

Nevertheless, McDowell said that people should vigilantly watch for any attempts to make Lloyd’s ideas official federal policy, adding that concerns raised about Lloyd and his proximity to the levers of federal rule-making were legitimate and that those concerned should make their voices heard.

What did McDowell find "troubling" you ask?

Get a load of this idiot:

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press,” Lloyd wrote. “This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.”
 
“[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block [government] rules that would promote democratic governance,” said Lloyd.

"This Freedom is all too often an exaggeration"? Did I read that right?

FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd thinks that the First Amendment is "an exaggeration" and that references to freedom of speech serve as a "distraction" from examining Government rules to promote "democratic governance"? Jesus Harold Christ. What is happening to this Country?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Help me find the part about my right to free speech yielding to a "critical examination" of "other communications policies" because I can't for the life of me see it.

Seriously people, where is it? I've read it like a thousand times and I'm just not finding it.

Interestingly enough, it is the First Amendment's fault that I have to put up with stupid people like Mark Lloyd making stupid comments like these. I do so out of respect for the fact that everyone else is endowed by their creator with the same right. 

Mark Lloyd has no respect for your Freedom of Speech. This is most likely because he has no respect for you. 

Before I get on a rant about the First Amendment, let me leave you with this:

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"I can think of quite another place they should have stuck it first."

Stick it Mark Lloyd.

Russ