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If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet From the Start [nightmare]
Slashdot ^ | 12/26/10 | timothy

Posted on 12/26/2010 7:50:13 AM PST by Clint Williams

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1 posted on 12/26/2010 7:50:15 AM PST by Clint Williams
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To: ShadowAce

ping


2 posted on 12/26/2010 7:50:43 AM PST by Clint Williams ( America -- a great idea, didn't last. The only reasonable response to jihad is Crusade.)
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How did the internet get to be the powerful force it now is without any help from the government? Any sensible person would see that it doesn’t need any help from the government and that the government is just doing what it always does - if it works tax it and regulate it.


3 posted on 12/26/2010 7:54:21 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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To: Clint Williams

FCC ..Federal Censorship Commission.....


4 posted on 12/26/2010 7:57:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an “idiot”, you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
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To: Clint Williams
Mention of the article is posted on Slashdot... the actual article is on Slate
5 posted on 12/26/2010 7:59:16 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
the government is just doing what it always does - if it works tax it and regulate it.

On the bright side, once they've destroyed it they'll subsidize it...

6 posted on 12/26/2010 7:59:54 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 703 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Politicians want control of the Net....They know its power......


7 posted on 12/26/2010 8:00:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
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To: Red Badger

Corporations too, as noted in the piece.


8 posted on 12/26/2010 8:05:37 AM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Why are TSA exempt from their own searches?)
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To: Clint Williams

Slate isn’t going to tolerate those handful of posts questioning the 0bama administration.


9 posted on 12/26/2010 8:06:06 AM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: null and void
On the bright side, once they've destroyed it they'll subsidize it...

Once they are paying for it, they will control it. Which is the whole point of the exercise.

10 posted on 12/26/2010 8:12:12 AM PST by magslinger (Samuel Colt, feminist. Making women equal to men for over 150 years.)
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Yes, but they’ll pay for it!


11 posted on 12/26/2010 8:13:17 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 703 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Clint Williams

Netneut


12 posted on 12/26/2010 8:26:10 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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Democrats.....if anything is not broken and works well it must be ‘fixed’.


13 posted on 12/26/2010 8:50:25 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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To: Clint Williams; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ..

14 posted on 12/26/2010 10:18:14 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: null and void

With our money.


15 posted on 12/26/2010 11:06:53 AM PST by magslinger (Samuel Colt, feminist. Making women equal to men for over 150 years.)
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To: ShadowAce
In January 1993 ... The FCC ignores the standalone Internet because nobody but academics, scientists, and some government bodies go there. So do the online services, which don't offer Internet access.

Compuserve was hooked up to the Internet in the 80s.

16 posted on 12/26/2010 12:49:02 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
How did the internet get to be the powerful force it now is without any help from the government?

You mean aside from the government having created it?

17 posted on 12/26/2010 12:49:51 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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Compuserve was hooked up to the Internet in the 80s.

I remember downloading at blazing speeds with my 300 baud modem.

18 posted on 12/26/2010 12:54:31 PM PST by windsorknot
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I remember downloading at blazing speeds with my 300 baud modem.

Those were the days!!! My $400 modem (300 baud was indeed speedy), printing on my $1,000 printer (dot matrix), and even being able to save files on my spiffy new $500 hard drive (10 megabyte Pluc Hardcard drive).

19 posted on 12/26/2010 12:59:18 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

Ah yes! And there was the Commodore 64 and the Apple IIc.


20 posted on 12/26/2010 1:08:29 PM PST by windsorknot
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