[steve-b]

Net Neutrality = Ted Turner can't block your access to FR.

Bottom line.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In a net utopia, that’s what it would mean.

The worries here are about: How do we get the wine from the cup to the lip without a slip? When the server is an alcoholic?

[LearsFool]

Net Neutrality = Ted Turner can't block your access to FR.

But Obama's internet czar can.

I'll take my chances with Ted Turner. He has to compete for my business. The feds don't.

[Robbin]

But you trust an Obama Czar to keep access open for conservatives and Christians?

[Robbin]

But you trust an Obama Czar to keep access open for conservatives and Christians?

[VRWCmember]

Net Neutrality = Ted Turner can't block your access to FR.

WRONG.

[mysterio]

Yep. It's a losing battle trying to convince anyone of that, though. The "their side, our side" knee-jerk response is just too strong.

But you're correct.

[VRWCmember]

From the article:

Here's what one of the bill's co-sponsors identifies as its basic intent:

"The Internet has thrived and revolutionized business and the economy precisely because it started as an open technology," said co-sponsor Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) in a statement. "This bill will ensure that the non-discriminatory framework that allows the Internet to thrive and competition on the Web to flourish is preserved at a time when our economy needs it the most." (Source)

So, to follow Ms. Eshoo's argument, the Internet has "thrived and revolutionized business and the economy." Now she, Mr. Markey, and the Obama administration want to regulate it so it will thrive and flourish. (So I take my truck into the dealership and say, "Fix my truck, Doug." Doug says, "What's wrong with it?" I say, "Nothing, it runs great. It just needs fixing.")

Masked beneath the comfort language of the net neutrality bill are provisions that will effectively turn over management of the internet within the United States to the federal government via the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It's a power for which the FCC hungers. Perhaps it envies China.

The internet has thrived because of minimal regulation from the government, but now we need the government to step in and codify some "net neutrality" rules which actually just transfer control over internet service operations from the ISP's to the FCC? What kind of IDIOT would think that is a good idea? Oh, that's right - a liberal leftist statist congressman like Markey from Taxachussetts. (Kennedy was a co-sponsor of this legislation in the Senate before he took his long overdue dirtnap.)

I trust the competitive market among internet service providers to continue to create incentives for innovation and improved service, competitive rates, and a free marketplace of ideas to flourish over then internet much more than I trust the government to "ensure that the non-discriminatory framework that allows the Internet to thrive and competition on the Web to flourish". You may be afraid of Ted Turner, but I can buy my internet access from somebody else - at least as long as we keep the government from "watching out for us".

[discostu]

Net Neutrality = the FCC CAN.

Bottom line.