This government ignores elections, but a petition is supposed to matter?
This is the most important fight of this century. If we win on thing it must be the liberty of the Internet. Keep it government free.
When was the last time a public utility fought for liberty?
If we lose, goodbye FR, et. al.
Time to go VIRAL on Facebook, Twitter, etc.. Or will government employees Zuckerberg, etc. BURY IT?
Our taxes funded the US government invention of the internet. Therefore the internet superhighway belongs to the American People — exactly like the Interstate Highway System.
The People are entitled to have a say in how their internet is run — just like they have a say in how electric companies, gas, and water companies are run. Why is it okay to regulate other things the People own but not the internet? Because Comcast says so?
Comcast says they own the internet because they’ve built some infrastructure. Stop and ask yourself if this is true. Aren’t they just leveraging an asset the US taxpayers own, exactly like the company that sells hot dogs at Yellowstone Park? They own the hot dog cart, not the park — you do. If you don’t like what they’re charging for hot dogs at Yellowstone, you can kick them out and hire another contractor.
I don’t like Comcast, I don’t like what they’re charging, I don’t like that they’re giving fast lane access to people who use their lousy streaming service, Xfinity, and slowing down service to people who use Netflix. There is no law against this, because there is no regulatory agency overseeing them. And I really don’t like the fact that they decided to help themselves to a giant cut of Netflix profits because no one representing the consumer was empowered to stop them.
What are you going to do when Comcast decides to raise basic access to three hundred dollars a week? You will have no recourse. None. You can’t take your business elsewhere, because in large swaths of the country, Comcast is the only internet game in town.
Because Comcast lobbyists keep speciously repeating ‘free speech,’ you just don’t think — you all react like Pavlovian dogs. WHAT?! FREE SPEECH? THEY’RE GONNA TAKE AWAY FREE SPEECH?! And so you’re hell-bent on GIVING UP YOUR RIGHT TO OVERSEE AN ASSET YOU OWN.
Meanwhile, Comcast is hell-bent on taking away your ownership rights to the internet. That’s the only reason they keep screaming “free speech.”