[TomGuy]

Will someone please enlighten me why it is bad to force such carriers as Comcast to not censor the content of web sites they carry, i.e., refuse to carry the web sites?

I am still fence-sitting too. I don't know which I would trust less -- the FCC or the Cable company. I do know the cable company throttles internet speed, and their claims to deliver certain speeds are preferenced with the coniditonal, "up to XYZ Mbps".

[okie01]

I am still fence-sitting too. I don't know which I would trust less -- the FCC or the Cable company.

1. Are you aware of any circumstance in which a common carrier has abused their position in this regard? I'm not. The FCC is proposing a solution for which there is no problem.

2. Are you aware that a federal judge has already decided against the FCC having any authority to undertake this step? Yet, they are doing it anyway. What does that suggest?

3. Nonetheless, in ostensibly blocking the power of the common carriers to conduct censorship, the FCC has accrued the power for itself. Why would they want that, do you suppose?

Hugo Chavez has only talked about taking this action in Venezuela. The FCC just beat him to it.

This. Is. A. Power. Grab.

Nothing less.

[CharlesWayneCT]

If you don’t like what the cable company does, you can cancel your service.

If you don’t like how the FCC dictates your relationship with the cable company, what are you going to do about it, when they require every service provided to have the same relationship with you?

I guess you could drop out of the internet altogether, at least until they decide internet would be cheaper if everybody bought it, and mandate that you pick an internet provider that has services meeting the government’s acceptable standards.

[RockinRight]

Regulating commerce (which I DO think this falls under in name at least) is a function of government I support, it’s Constitutional after all.

I think the problem people have with this is primarily that we don’t trust their motives.

While Net Neutrality is NOT the same thing as the “fairness doctrine” (though some here seem to confuse the two, even some pundits who ought to know better confuse the two), it seems to open the door for more of that type of thing.

It’s not the idea itself that I’m so opposed to, it’s the fact that pepole like Pelosi and Reid are so enthusiastically behind it.

[DaxtonBrown]

[I don’t know which I would trust less — the FCC or the Cable company.]

If you don’t like your cable company, go dsl or satellite or whatever.

If you don’t like the FCC, go to jail.

Do you see any difference now? What pornographic Russian video are you currently blocked from seeing?