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Posted on 02/23/2015 7:02:40 PM PST by Jess Kitting
Critics of President Obama’s “net neutrality” plan call it ObamaCare for the Internet.
That’s unfair to ObamaCare.
Both ObamaCare and “Obamanet” submit huge industries to complex regulations. Their supporters say the new rules had to be passed before anyone could read them. But at least ObamaCare claimed it would solve long-standing problems. Obamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken.
The permissionless Internet, which allows anyone to introduce a website, app or device without government review, ends this week. On Thursday the three Democrats among the five commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission will vote to regulate the Internet under rules written for monopoly utilities.
No one, including the bullied FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, thought the agency would go this far. The big politicization came when President Obama in November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply the agency’s most extreme regulation to the Internet. A recent page-one Wall Street Journal story headlined “Net Neutrality: How White House Thwarted FCC Chief” documented “an unusual, secretive effort inside the White House . . . acting as a parallel version of the FCC itself.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
How can we put a stop to this?
Why is this not being stopped by the republicrats?
1934, 1996 all over again....
That little guy pounding his hands and face into the keyboard can now Shout ,”OBAMA” !!!!!
Dust off your shortwave radios.
How are they going to stop access to foreign Internet sites? Shut down access to users that visit verboten sites?
Would satellite Internet be a way around this?
Just in time to fend off the opposition for the start of campaign season. Someone is playing chess while the majority of the stupid party is playing Chutes n Ladders.
There is no reason that someone couldn’t start another Internet.
“Dust off your shortwave radios.
How are they going to stop access to foreign Internet sites? Shut down access to users that visit verboten sites?
Would satellite Internet be a way around this?”
Read you own post, and think about how in your wildest nightmares 30 years you couldn’t have imagined ever writing it!
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The reason is that even if they did, it wouldn't be anything worth doing. A network with no domains and no sites other than your own and a couple of friends isn't going to do anything that an amateur radio can't do, for a lot less money and trouble.
You may as well have an electronic tin-can and string.
So while you're right in theory, it's useless in practice.
Don’t worry the Republicans will save us and the Bush family will stand up for America. (Please don’t post another picture of Bush holding the American flag. It is bull crap.) /sarcasm
just another over reach
We are becoming Venezuela
relocate to Tuvalu?
freerepublic.tv?
interesting idea
a national string of BBS mirrors?
Well, the first question is: what would we do with an alternative internet? Once you know what you want to do, you can go about deciding how to make it possible.
What would an alternative net be used for? For instance, if it's mainly chatter and emergency contacts, then amateur radio already satisfies that. You don't even have to learn Morse code any more to have a license to operate your own station.
None of the major services like search, banking, etc. will exist on an alternative net. No google, bing, ebay, amazon, facebook. We could host FreeRepublic.com on the alternative net, but where will the articles come from if none of the source sites are on the alternative net?
No one will want the responsibility of providing DNS for an alternative net, except people you don't want to trust with DNS.
And on and on... I'm not pooh-poohing the idea in principle, I'm just trying to see what direction to start off in.
So let's first decide what we would try to do with an alternative net. Thoughts?
how many millions of Americans have amateur radio sets?
Apparently, there is only one way to put a stop to this.
We have no Representation, none whatsoever.
Use your imagination.
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