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DREAM OF FREE AND OPEN INTERNET DYING, LAWYER SAYS
Associated Press ^ | August 6, 2015 | Bree Fowler

Posted on 08/06/2015 7:43:19 AM PDT by Biggirl

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people, a top computer crime defense lawyer says.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: free; internet; internetregulations; open

1 posted on 08/06/2015 7:43:19 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Mad Dawgg

Is the Internet still working???


2 posted on 08/06/2015 7:51:57 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: Biggirl

Why free? Our culture needs to accept that nothing is free, and having someone foot the bill doesn’t work long-term either.


3 posted on 08/06/2015 7:54:11 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: ilgipper

But the problem is that folks want FREEBES and that includes the internet.


4 posted on 08/06/2015 7:57:31 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

Free internet? Head to McD’s or Sturburcks and try to get decent speed from their so called wifi. Just to get a connection takes half an hour


5 posted on 08/06/2015 8:01:38 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Old Sarge

Are you logged in?


6 posted on 08/06/2015 8:16:34 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Biggirl

More like destroyed by greedy ad producers that are relentlessly interfering with anything on the web.

We pay for cable/satellite tv and are inundated with hours of ads unless we pay even more to be able to ff them too.I have to pay extra to keep moving, dancing ads out of my email.

The web pages subject us to so much time of ads before we can look at what we need to. The lobby of Congress is unbelievable.


7 posted on 08/06/2015 8:20:08 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: Boogieman

“Tank you fo calling de Internet Help Desk, my name ish Pradesh, how can I help you?”


8 posted on 08/06/2015 8:31:11 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: Biggirl
‘bad laws that don't stop the right people’

And who, pray tell, would be the ‘right’ people that need to be stopped? I guess Obama, et al, will be determining that!

9 posted on 08/06/2015 8:34:35 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: ilgipper

True that nothing is free, but I would rather have the option to travel freely from town to town on public roads paid by taxes than to be limited to using only privately owned roads where access could be unaffordable or highly restricted.


10 posted on 08/06/2015 8:36:19 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Old Sarge
“Tank you fo calling de Internet Help Desk, my name ish Pradesh, how can I help you?”

Namaste, Friend Pradesh! Tesro bisra yudha Nepalbata suru hunchha!

I used to work at a Western Digital call center, and had the time of my life laying on the thickest accents possible.

Every now and again someone would ask where we were located, and I'd honestly report that I am so full of sorry, but that I am not to allowed to be telling you so. We are, however, just a half a mile from the Mississippi bridge....

11 posted on 08/06/2015 11:19:33 AM PDT by archy
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To: Old Sarge
Is the Internet still working???

It's had it's hours cut to 29 hours per week. Obamacare.

12 posted on 08/06/2015 11:20:16 AM PDT by archy
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To: archy

Oh Creeping Jesus, don’t make me laugh so loud! The prairie dogs here are poking their heads up!


13 posted on 08/06/2015 11:22:06 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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