"Net Neutrality" - Government Promises to Control the Internet

Center for Individual Freedom ^ | April 2, '09

[T.L.Sink]

By way of "Net Neutrality," the federal government is preparing to do to the Internet what it has done to the auto industry, public schools, the home mortgage industry, the postal service and the financial industry bailout. The Obama administration now seeks to regulate the Internet as well. "Net Neutrality" refers to the dangerous movement to have government dictate Internet providers' business models, and the manner in which they can transmit data. Obama's infamous "stimulus" package includes a $7.2 billion grant to expand broadband services that require carriers accepting government money to adhere to FCC Net Neutrality guidelines that empower the FCC and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to devise even more rules for any Internet provider that accepts funds.

[T.L.Sink]

As all the manufacturers, banks, and other institutions in commerce and industry have discovered, once they accept government funds, the government "owns" them. The Internet is next. For those of us who thought it was far-fetched that the Obama administration would ever seek to control the Internet through regulation - we perhaps forgot that his socialistic, collectivist mentality seeks to subordinate everything to state control through regulation. It's already happened in China - and remember how fast Google and others folded? If he were alive today, George Orwell might retitle his book, "2009."

[FlingWingFlyer]

Who did they make this "promise" to and why?

[capt. norm]

Neutrality means letting them decide what is correct/incorrect instead of allowing the net to come under protection of the First Amendment.

Same thing they want to do with the "Fairness Doctrine"....the Orwellian name for a practice is the opposite of that.

Summarized, it's just more GOVERNMENT CONTROL.

[Zack Attack]

Heard Alex Jones talk about “internet2”?

[Candor7]

Even more importantly is why control the internet.

All innternet commerce is about to be taxed.

And also internet "hate speech" will become a crime.

By "hate speech" I mean speaking out factually about ethnically/sexually based politics.

Anti-tracking software will be outlawed in some states, just as radar detectors are in some.

[hiredhand]

Since you were asking... I doubt it. The dumbasses in our federal legislative bodies can't comprehend it, much less control it. Those who do understand what they want well enough to make it happen can't communicate it back to these legislators because the legislators don't understand it.

Back during the 1990s, the gov't tried to force everybody on the net to drop IPV4 and go to GOSSIP as a standard protocol. To many places owning/operating the net told them to simply pound sand.

But we'll see. :-)

[nomad]

What is anti-tracking software and where do you get it?

[hiredhand]

www.torproject.org

[prismsinc]

Well, it was really nice knowing all of you. (This is my farewell in advance, as FR will be outlawed)

[Colonial Warrior]

"We're MAD as HELL and we're NOT gonna take it anymore!!!"

[Eye of Unk]

The internet is an obstacle to Obama, and he will use all his presidential powers to control it.He will use it to generate taxes, he will use it to data mine for dissension, and will use it as a propaganda tool.

Already we are seeing the obots and false leaders claiming to support patriotic dissension but are only passing out placebos.

Organizing events to placate the people, events with no teeth and a minimal bark, just keep the people occupied.

[nomad]

http://www.torproject.org/ thanks.

[Nateman]

[OH4life]

hehe, all the left wing nuts said “oh my god, dailykos will be outlawed if net neutrality doesn’t pass!!”, and all the people here say “oh my god, our forums will be outlawed if net neutrality passes”

“net neutrality” generally just says ISPs can’t due deep packet inspection for QoS or traffic-shaping purposes

[SkyDancer]

Who's the CEO of the Internet?

[ArchAngel1983]

Never in my 50 years of life has the U.S. government been so deserving of subversion. I hope the right has learned a lesson or two from the left over the years. Demonstrations and protests have never really been a conservative ‘thing’, but as the communist revolution takes hold, I hope at least some patriots are capable of causing these traitors some discomfort.

[sionnsar]

[Candor7]

You use a proxy IP address, which is different every time you log on.

You can do it all by hand if you know how, but there is this software:

http://wareseeker.com/Security-Privacy/mask-my-ip-anonymity-hide-ip-address-1.1.zip/347707

Then you make sure all traces of your browsing history are erased from your PC using privacy Software like Paretologic.

[Star Traveler]

Here are some links to Net Neutrality, which has been argued about long before Obama. I’ve thought that the absence of “net neutrality” is what would *control* the Internet, rather than the current maintaining of it.

From Tim Berners-Lee (invented the World-wide Web in 1989)
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144

Daniel J. Weitzner, Principal Research Scientist
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
The Neutral Internet: An Information Architecture for Open Societies
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2006/06/neutralnet.html

General Wikipedia article on it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality

A Net Neutrality FAQ
http://www.timwu.org/network_neutrality.html

A Google company statement on it...
http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html

Brief Wall Street Journal article on it...
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090402-713158.html

An older CNN article — Keep the Internet neutral, fair and free
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/09/newmark.internet/

That’s sort of a starter on it... LOL...

[Eye of Unk]

I think it will start a new fad and trend, to see who can be more subservient against the government, one mans view of terrorists is another mans freedom fighters. Some blades can be sharp on both sides.