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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Is the Internet still working???
Why free? Our culture needs to accept that nothing is free, and having someone foot the bill doesn’t work long-term either.
But the problem is that folks want FREEBES and that includes the internet.
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
Are you logged in?
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.
“Tank you fo calling de Internet Help Desk, my name ish Pradesh, how can I help you?”
And who, pray tell, would be the ‘right’ people that need to be stopped? I guess Obama, et al, will be determining that!
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.
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....
It's had it's hours cut to 29 hours per week. Obamacare.
Oh Creeping Jesus, don’t make me laugh so loud! The prairie dogs here are poking their heads up!
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