[Straight Vermonter]

Mine works just find now, Hussein.

The problem is that the big ISPs want to pick what sites you can use.

Want Netflix? Yeah that's extra.
Want sports sites. Buy our sports package.
Want FR? Sorry, that's only available as part of our extended package.

[palmer]

The problem is that the big ISPs want to pick what sites you can use.
... Want FR? Sorry, that's only available as part of our extended package.

That's complete bunk. The only thing the "big ISPs" want to do is charge more for bandwidth hogging content like streaming HD. Sites like FR that use 1/100 or 1/1000 of the bandwidth will not be throttled in any way.

It is only the agitators from the gimme crowd and the big streaming media outlets that want this "regulation".

[boycott]

Like obamaphones and obamacare, it will turn into more redistribution of wealth. The payers will be picking up the tabs for society’s sponges (democrats).

The poor deserve equal access to the Internet .... and then more yada .... yada .... yada.

[VanDeKoik]

“Want Netflix? Yeah that’s extra.
Want sports sites. Buy our sports package.
Want FR? Sorry, that’s only available as part of our extended package. “

And can you point to where exactly they are doing this?

I don’t want some passed around internet myth, I want to see the exact ISP that is working to sort out over a billion websites into tier packages as if the internet is the same as cable TV.

[plain talk]

Utter bullshit and lies. None of that is true. What ISP is keeping you from accessing free republic?

[Mariner]

" The problem is that the big ISPs want to pick what sites you can use.

Want Netflix? Yeah that's extra. Want sports sites. Buy our sports package. Want FR? Sorry, that's only available as part of our extended package".

That's not true and either a deliberate lie or a tell of your gullibility.

The backbone providers want to be able to offer a better class of service to those content providers who are willing to pay for it. This will completely cannibalize the existing phone and cable networks and make the Internet suitable for guaranteed delivery of voice and video services.

However, SOME content providers want to force the backbone providers to do this without recovering their costs of improvement and thereby spread the costs to every user and provider equally.

Even if they do not need the advanced services.

Like Free Republic. Jim's costs for supplying bits to the internet would increase significantly without any benefit...in order to subsidize Google, Hulu and Yahoo and keep their costs down.

Get a clue!

[Vermont Lt]

Well, they want to control bandwidth and speed. It’s not so much content as it is flow.