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To: dennisw
I have changed because now I see the net neutrality battle as being between Comcast/ISPS and NetFlix/Amazon/others who want to stream massive files thus hogging bandwidth and being in competition with Comcast/ISPs that also are content providers.

I also see that, and it looks familiar. Having been in the electric utility business for the last 30 years, I can see the similarities between this and what they called "deregulation" of the electric industry. Tens of thousands of pages of rules and regulations (and at least one major blackout) later, it should be obvious that THAT genie should never have left the bottle.

I see this FCC move as more than "net neutrality" - it's a foot in the door of enforcing some future "fairness doctrine" where the government gets to select what information can be available and what information is to be shunned. They'd love to shut down Rush, Beck, and Fox news but they know that people won't settle for that. So, instead, they'll wittle away at the internet sites that they don't approve of, one at a time. Today, maybe FreeRepublic. Tomorrow, Drudge or Daily Caller or Heritage.

The internet wasn't broken - they've invented a crisis for which they had a pre-determined "cure" and that cure is more central government oversight. Orwell was right.

73 posted on 12/22/2010 4:29:55 PM PST by meyer (Obama - the Schwartz is with him.)
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To: meyer

Electric utility deregulation was started under Ronald Reagan I would think

Fairness Doctrine...Rush and Glenn Beck say this will come in the form of demands for more “community input”, more “community content” and more ownership by minorities. Who will be waiting in the wings, ready to swoop down on any radio or TV stations that don’t provide time for “voices from the community” to air after the Rush Limbaugh show, and try get ownership of that public airwaves frequency transferred to them after FCC hearings

IOW fewer white owners and more “comrades” owning radio and TV stations.


74 posted on 12/22/2010 5:06:23 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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