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If the FCC got into digital communications early we would still be on dial-up at 300bd.
What was it Reagan said?
“If it succeeds, tax it.
If it gets in trouble, regulate it.
If it begins to fail, subsidize it.”
Something along those lines. I realize that Al Gore invented the internet (Government invented - DARPA), but still . . .
This is really funny coming from Hot Air. Are they just stupid, believers in Glenn Beck’s Verizon fueled paranoia, or do they really believe they are one of the big boys who like drudge will be able, without neutrality, to suck the smaller sites dry by imposing extraneous costs and filters on them?
You think FreeRepublic can compete with the band width grabs?
Along the lines of this regulation is something I read about four months ago.
Before long, it will take no time at all to build a pretty accurate profile of you based on purchases, searches made, your location, your cell phone usage (where you use it, when, how long are the calls, to whom were they made) from your activity on the internet.
The sale of this information to target hyper-specific product pitches to people is only one way of using this information.
If we’d have just enforced laws dealing with the use of the SSN, I’m not sure we’d be in as much trouble with all of this than we will be.
Remember, you are only going to be a prospect if both your credit and your health are where they need to be so that the pitch makes sense.
Today, through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, blogs and other means, we volunteer so much information to the ether that it would be very difficult to claim any objective right to privacy.
Zuckerberg may have become rich because there were a lot of horny people in college. He’s beyond wealthy because idiots volunteer their entire life and interests up for free.
Microsoft Bob LOL
I watched BG fire a software engineer when a demo of Bob failed during a demonstration at the exclusive Microsoft Home.
Bob was the brainchild of Melinda Gates and the bossman didn’t like it when the engineer belittled it.