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To: GIdget2004

If no one owns the internet, then who can they hold accountable? If no one can be held accountable, then what is there to regulate.

Or maybe they want to regulate telecommunication companies which they already can do. But they only provide access to the internet and can be accountable to the FCC if they deal directly in telecommunications.

In either case it is government overreach and should be reason for the congress to dissolve the FCC along with the IRS.


201 posted on 02/26/2015 5:10:13 PM PST by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

The internet is a set of protocols and agreements between interconnected networks. The ISPs were taking the fundamental underpinnings that the internet has been build upon for the last 30+ years, and they were chucking them out of the window. That is why there is such passion about this from the tech world. That is why the ONLY arguments against this that you will find here is “Don’t trust the Big Bad Government”.

There is literally ZERO technical argument AGAINST Net Neutrality that you can find here. At best, you will get some lame excuse like “hurting the customer” from the ISPs. But there is nothing to back those claims up.

The ISPs are fighting tooth and nail for the ability to deny giving you the information/services you request while use the ISP to access the internet.

It is VERY easy to tell if the ISPs are inspecting the contents of the information/services you are requesting over their network, and blocking because they are competition to the Provider division of the same ISP.

PLEASE dig deeper on this issue. Please don’t simply take “Big Bad Government” as the rote answer. This is a technical problem, look to technical sources for a more detailed explanation of this issue.


205 posted on 02/26/2015 5:23:00 PM PST by SengirV
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