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Read EFF for all things real regarding Internet freedoms. EFF has a very good track record for it's libertarian stance on Internet form and functionality.
1 posted on 11/11/2014 11:50:38 AM PST by Usagi_yo
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2 posted on 11/11/2014 11:51:37 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Usagi_yo

The last thing I want is for this regime to decide what is NEUTRAL. If TRANSPARENCY of the administration is any example, I’ll take my chances with the system as it is without government screwing with it.


3 posted on 11/11/2014 11:55:27 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Usagi_yo

Every single time the government gets involved with private business and industry, it turns it to crap and makes misery - like a king Midas in reverse.

No thanks. Keep the government OUT of even LOOKING at the internet.


4 posted on 11/11/2014 12:00:13 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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Yeah....”Equal Access” means bait and switch....and YOU get to pay for the freebies of the CHOSEN ones, ie losers.


5 posted on 11/11/2014 12:01:35 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: Usagi_yo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality

“Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.”

Essentially, “net-neutrality” is a highly anti-competitive measure preventing innovation such as offering premium Internet services, with the result that all Internet traffic is reduced to the lowest common denominator, that is, all Internet traffic remains equally as slow, which of course is the heart of all socialistic schemes.

If “net-neutrality” were to be applied to the telephone system, then unlimited calls to anywhere in the world would all cost the same as a call to your next door neighbor. Of course, the quality of all those calls would suddenly become equally as bad. Likewise, cell phones would never have been allowed to be utilized under “net-neutrality”, since these represent a premium calling mechanism for which people pay a premium price.

So-called net neutrality amounts to nothing more than applying Marxist principles to the Internet: “To each Internet user according to his need, from each Internet provider according to their ability to pay”.

It’s no wonder Obama whole-heartedly endorses “net-neutrality”(assuming he even understands what it means in the first place, and isn’t endorsing it just because it sounds “fair”.)


8 posted on 11/11/2014 12:09:37 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Usagi_yo
Net "Neutrality" is sorta like the "Affordable" Health Care act.

Libs love to pick names that are the opposite of what the proposed law is supposed to do.

My marketing professor always said "advertise your weakest point". If your restaurant's food tastes bad, then advertise "Great tasting food!". If service is slow, then advertise "Speedy service!".

I always look at a company's advertising, and using this rule I can determine their bad points by what they're trying to advertise as their strong points. 99% of the time it seems to always be true.

11 posted on 11/11/2014 12:15:15 PM PST by Cementjungle
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12 posted on 11/11/2014 12:16:48 PM PST by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Usagi_yo
Sadly that article is from some time ago. The EFF's current screed sings a different story.

The White House Gets It Right On Net Neutrality. Will the FCC?

Wow, really?

16 posted on 11/11/2014 12:55:14 PM PST by Proud_texan (Straddling the line between ambition and stupidity)
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To: Usagi_yo
I think the EFF needs to STRONGLY advocate that any support for Internet neutrality MUST include stipulations that the Federal government cannot dictate what can and cannot be legally posted on the Internet to ensure full First Amendment free speech protections.
19 posted on 11/11/2014 1:04:50 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Usagi_yo
To call EFF "libertarian" is a ludicrous lie.

They are denizens of the Progressive Left...ala ACLU.

Sure, they support civil liberties as long as you are not the enemy. And the enemy to them is anyone making a buck for providing a product or service.

20 posted on 11/11/2014 1:08:33 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Sorry, the EFF is looking to get as much mileage out of someone else's assets (i.e. ISPs) for as little as possible. The Internet has worked just fine, thank you, for the last 25+ years and no innovation has been stiffled. The concept of "pay to play" is exactly the same as media throughout the decades. Newspapers, radio and TV were "paid for" by those with deep pockets and wanted to leverage the "new technology" of the period. Granted everyone couldn't afford to do the same but society gained much more quickly than if some ludicrous "fairness" rules had been applied.

Don't' buy Obama's bull$h_t! There is no problem and it doesn't need to be regulated.

24 posted on 11/11/2014 1:45:05 PM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Usagi_yo

Thrown out in a court challenge.


28 posted on 11/11/2014 6:50:06 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Usagi_yo
More competition among residential Internet providers couldn't hurt, either.


32 posted on 11/12/2014 10:08:48 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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