Here comes Little Lord Barry Bohica's back-door internet unFairness Doctrine.
It was fun while it lasted. See y'all at the printing press. Dibs on ink & parchment.
thaDeetz
And the environmentalists won't let us nail our pamphlets to the trees anymore, either.
-PJ
I wonder how long before it will be that Obama tries to station a member of the new Civilian Defense Force (or whatever its name is) in each American home. He has violated the 1st and 2nd Amendments. Violating the 3rd Amendment would allow him to gain control of the citizens of this country.
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Net Neutrality bump for later............
“From my cold dead fingers!!!”
The one sector this stimulis bill will effectively stimulate is the law. There are going to be so many lawsuits on so much of this crapolla that the lawyers will be able to buy up all the foreclosed houses. The American bar must be jumping up and down and peeing itself with joy at this legislation.
bookmark
Does this mean we’ll be getting something other than dial up soon? A mile down the road they have a choice of three/four different servers, we’re lucky to have one.
I think I'll just go buy a tin cup and brush up on Morse Code from my scouting days.
Dit dit dit dot dot dot dit dit dit.
Net neutrality is a pretty sticky subject. On the one hand, it sounds like (Un)fairness Doctrine. On the other hand does it sounds like a good idea to allow companies to give preference some peoples packets over others? Net neutrality, in the form it should be, is what has existed since the Internet came online. All packets are treated exactly the same by all routers. What companies want to do now is give preference to traffic that accesses their services, or the services of their partners, at the expense of any other traffic. This is not a good idea, and could serve to snuff out the “little guys” who use the Internet for their purposes. Do we want an ISP with the wrong poltical stance deciding that Free Republic is not important enough, and to drastically slow down their packets? Net neutrality deserves a closer look than this article gives it.
-Bill
I still have to learn what grand and wonderful benefits will befall rural communities once broadband is more available.
The cows don’t need it.
And much will depend on how “underserved” is defined. Does having one wireless ISP constitute service? Many rural areas, including schools, have at least that level of service. There’s a lot of dark fiber around, and it’s dark for a reason. Build it and they will come is not a smart approach.
Note the first thing that will happen is NTIA gets $350M to prepare a broadband map. That’s because the feds have no idea of what problem they are solving.
No Thanks,,,
So FreeRepublic then becomes the equivalent of the underground Samizdat press in the Soviet Union.
I really don’t understand who would be opposed to Net Neutrality. To me as a freedom loving American, the analogy about “porn filtering” has it exactly backward. Its the opponents of Net Neutrality who want to apply filters to content, not the other way around.
The word to describe my utter hatred of the fascist demoncrats and this tyrannical bastard Obama needs to be invented first.
Old news, much hype about nothing. The guts of the policy are:
“consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice.” - Reasonable. ISPs shouldn’t block you from accessing lawful content.
“consumers are entitled to run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement.” - Reasonable. Sprint shouldn’t be able to say you can’t use Vonage on your DSL because it cuts into their VOIP business. That’s anticompetitive.
“consumers are entitled to connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network” - This issue was settled with the phone companies decades ago. Comcast shouldn’t force me to buy an expensive wireless router from them when I have their service, I should be able to use my own.
“consumers are entitled to competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.” Reasonable. Competition is good, and this reflects the proper state of the Internet.
So what exactly in there is disagreeable?
bump for later research
Why did Al Gore invent the internet if it is so bad? LOL