burn baby burn - Kenya or Ferguson?
At this point why does it matter?
Posted on 02/09/2015 4:46:12 PM PST by Crazieman
Ajit Pai, the sole Republican Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), inferred in a Tweet that President Barack Obama’s secret, 332-page “Net Neutrality” document is a scheme for federal micro-managing of the Internet to extract billions in new taxes from consumers and again enforce progressives’ idea of honest, equitable, and balanced content fairness.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Progressives can go to Hell where they belong.
No (Marxist) Net Neutrality!
Well, I guess we can't expect someone who can't spell their own name correctly to actually be literate.
It's implied, there, "Chriss".
Look for the growth of “outernet” to take off!
Why not simply act on violation of 1st amendment rights in
the so called secret document itself.
“balanced content”
It hit me yesterday, this is the fairness doctrine for the internet.
This is the left’s big gambit to control the internet once and for all like they do with all cable and network TV.
I'll ascribe that to ignorance rather than Communist/Statist Malice. At least until they demonstrate otherwise.
Few people are aware of the fact that the Internet that we know and love today almost didn’t happen. It was nearly killed in its infancy due to proposed public-utility regulations like Obama’s new FCC diktat.
You see, way back in the 1980s, when the Internet was called ARPANET and run by the DOD as a loose inter-university research network, the ITU (part of the UN), ATT, and the other worldwide telephone monopolies were poised to steamroll TCP/IP and replace it with highly regulated X.25/OSI/TP4 over ISDN. At one point the US DOD even mandated switching ARPANET to OSI, which would have killed the free-wheeling Internet that we know today. Fortunately it collapsed under its own regulatory weight as the more nimble 4.xBSD hackers at Berkeley ran around them. But it was a close thing.
The beauty of TCP/IP is that it can run over anything and still interoperate. If the regulatory agencies start to strangle the public Internet, expect to see VPNs popping up everywhere that connect to to ‘Outernet’ routers in countries like the Bahamas or other countries with loose regulatory regimes.
Internet, Outernet.
A split is coming. One network will be highly regulated with content controls, speech controls, etc. The other network will be free-wheeling and totally unregulated (with offshore DNS root nameservers).
And of course anyone caught with an Outernet link will be in violation of some law or regulation that will be enforced by the Powers That Be.
Or maybe I’m just a pessimist.
EFF opposes it,...
Net Neutrality
https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
...but there’s more.
Huge Win for the Open Internet! FCC Officially Embraces Title II
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/huge-win-open-internet-fcc-officially-embraces-title-ii
I already use a V.P.N.: That’s how I get my website on the Internet. (Cel phone company only issues static IPs to commercial customers)
Also, whenever I encrypt my communications, the cel phone company does not deduct it from my shared data bucket, as they cannot determine that the data is coming from a computer as opposed to a smart phone. It’s a somewhat weird way to save some money and maintain privacy, IMO.
(Also, most, if not all, smart phones have a VPN client anyway)
What they really need to do is abolish all monopolies (at all levels of government from local on up) on cable and phone line access. Once there are multiple lines available at any given address, competition will take care of the problem of (for example) Comcast deciding that FR is a “hate site” and cutting off its bandwidth.
“If you like your Internet, you can keep your Internet.”
Is this what you moderates wanted so badly?
A complete government takeover?
I really hope you’re talking rhetorically and naming me a squishy spineless moderate.
Nice post, but, yet again, we’re debating a moot point: I fail to find anything in the Constitution that even remotely authorizes ‘...to manage a scare resource: the radio frequency spectrum...’, let alone any other spectrum.
Next you’ll be hearing the scarce spectrum of LIGHT /s
The FCC, EPA, etc. are, and should, be null and void
Well, long time, no see! How have you been?
Pretty good, thanks. You?
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