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If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet From the Start [nightmare]
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| 12/26/10
| timothy
Posted on 12/26/2010 7:50:13 AM PST by Clint Williams
In the spirit of (but with a different approach than) last week's post "Is Net Neutrality Really Needed?", an anonymous reader writes with this
"counterfactual history of the internet, but one that is all too plausible. Unfortunately, I can see this happening under the new 'Net Neutrality.'"
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To: ShadowAce
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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.)
To: Clint Williams
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.
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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.)
To: Clint Williams
FCC ..Federal Censorship Commission.....
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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.)
To: Clint Williams
Mention of the article is posted on Slashdot... the actual article is on
Slate
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posted on
12/26/2010 7:59:16 AM PST
by
samtheman
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...
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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.)
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
Politicians want control of the Net....They know its power......
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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.)
To: Red Badger
Corporations too, as noted in the piece.
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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?)
To: Clint Williams
Slate isn’t going to tolerate those handful of posts questioning the 0bama administration.
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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)
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.
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posted on
12/26/2010 8:12:12 AM PST
by
magslinger
(Samuel Colt, feminist. Making women equal to men for over 150 years.)
To: magslinger
Yes, but they’ll pay for it!
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posted on
12/26/2010 8:13:17 AM PST
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null and void
(We are now in day 703 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: Clint Williams
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posted on
12/26/2010 8:26:10 AM PST
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FrankR
(The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
To: Clint Williams
Democrats.....if anything is not broken and works well it must be ‘fixed’.
To: Clint Williams; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ..
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posted on
12/26/2010 10:18:14 AM PST
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ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: null and void
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posted on
12/26/2010 11:06:53 AM PST
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magslinger
(Samuel Colt, feminist. Making women equal to men for over 150 years.)
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.
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?
To: antiRepublicrat
Compuserve was hooked up to the Internet in the 80s.I remember downloading at blazing speeds with my 300 baud modem.
To: windsorknot
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).
To: Cementjungle
Ah yes! And there was the Commodore 64 and the Apple IIc.
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