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To: freedumb2003

From past palaver about this matter, it looks like it is a looie libertarian push to ban ISPs from furnishing cut-rate premium content associated with themselves which other ISP customers would have to pay the full rate to get. If this is being pushed to an out-and-out viewpoint discrimination, I’d think this would go to the USSC as a First Amendment case pretty quick.


10 posted on 12/04/2010 1:53:13 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

What exactly are you saying?

From my experience, all the libertarians I know want the government to keep its dirty hands off the internet and not regulate it at all if they don’t want the FCC abolished outright.

The ones who want regulation regarding traffic volume and rates are Google and the google sycophants you find in university computer science departments.


26 posted on 12/04/2010 3:48:17 PM PST by MichiganConservative (Terrorists don't commit genocide. That's what governments do.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It’s not libertarians pushing, it is everyone who fears being shut out by the providers. The problem here is that Congress allowed monopoly over the last mile. Phone companies, Cable companies pretty much control the pipeline to your home. This scares people like, say, Apple and Google and Amazon and media manufacturers like Disney and folks who make entertainment. Theoretically, your cable company (mine is Time Warner) could cut deals that favor some content over others and even prohibit some content. Not sure what the solution is. I favor property rights but these entities have monopolies.


48 posted on 12/05/2010 6:43:08 PM PST by monkeyshine
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