Posted on 09/09/2010 12:35:06 PM PDT by Andrea19
...This is all well and good, except that it brings to light yet another of Senator Kerry’s many flip flops, as Kerry’s stance on the current net neutrality issue illustrates a pro-government regulation, anti-free market mindset.
“The overarching policy goal of the 1996 Act is to promote a market-driven, robustly competitive environment for all communications services,” reads the 1998 letter. “Given that, we wish to make it clear that nothing in the 1996 Act or its legislative history suggests that Congress intended to alter the current classification of Internet and other information services”
In the 12 years since Kerry committed his John Hancock to the letter, the Senator has managed to hop the fence on this issue. Enactment of net neutrality, which Kerry now advocates, would involve the reclassification of the Internet and the imposition of heavy government regulatory burdens, stifling the market-driven innovation that Kerry once pledged to protect...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/senator-kerry-again-a5376#ixzz0z3uah6ZU
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
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AOL was seared, SEARED into his memory.
He didn’t personally see atrocities like the Good Times virus or something like that...but he did take part in text-based role-playing and Netscape Navigator.
Kerry is one of those few people (mostly Democrats) who invite ridicule so routinely that one has to wonder if they know what a joke they are.
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