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And, now, after thousands of years of the human race, we are told to believe that Barak Obama’s FCC is different and they intend to PROMOTE uncontrolled speech via “net neutrality.”

The government has already worked to control and monitor communications on the Internet by various other well-known and publicized means, such as the DMCA and CALEA. It doesn't need net neutrality to do it. It's absurd to warn me of a camel's nose under the tent when we're sitting on the camels that are already in the tent.

But if you want to be really cynical, you can say the government doesn't like competition. The telcos restricting communications is competition.

The FCC under Bush did promote some common-sense rules about net neutrality. Basically, consumers are entitled to:

access the lawful Internet content of their choice
run applications and services of their choice
connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network
competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers

Nothing Marxist in that, yet the very idea was strongly opposed by the telcos, their astroturfers and their paid politicians and think tanks. All of that ensures the continuation of the healthy Internet economy we've enjoyed over the last decade+.

The telcos don't want that, they want profit at the expense of the Internet economy by throwing up needless toll booths. And they're willing to get in bed with politicians to ensure their profit. Sounds like the bad guys in Atlas Shrugged, doesn't it?

The nail in the coffin. Not ‘the camel’s nose’.

Marxism is almost always the nail in the coffin. Look it up. I’d provide you with some names of some nations, but I’m sure you’re well versed there.

Let me put it to you this way. Perhaps this will help bridge a gap that we’ve had since day one on net neutrality.

There are already regulations in place that have a handful of basic functions; informational regulations and what not. To put it simply, “net neutrality”(the one we’ve been sold on) already exists, has for a long time.

What these marxists are proposing is social regulations. Controls. Read free press, they don’t hide it behind a thin veneer.

They want to leave their current standing as referee of the game and take over every position on the field, so they can pick winners and losers.