Judge Napolitano and I talking about Net Neutrality on today's Freedom Watch:
By the way, the "people who support Net Neutrality" I so helpfully referred to are led by Robert McChesney, one of the co-founders of Freepress.org. Freepress.org is one of the most vocal proponents of Net Neutrality.
Read his vision for the internet here, on the "Socialist Project" website:
http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/246.php
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EXCERPTS:
"What we want to have in the U.S. and in every society is an Internet that is not private property, but a public utility. We want an Internet where you don’t have to have a password and that you don’t pay a penny to use. It is your right to use the Internet."
"As the Internet is increasingly hyper-commercialized, we open our entire lives to 24/7 injections of advertising messages. We need to organize against hyper-commercialism. This is an easy-sell for the Left. We understand that advertising is not something done by all people equally, but rather, done by a very small group of people working on behalf of multinational corporations. Advertising is commercial propaganda ... We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications."
"Nevertheless, we have had much success around the net neutrality struggle. I expect within the next twelve months, we will have a formal law passed by U.S. Congress, signed by President Obama, and backed up by orders from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Network neutrality is well on its way to becoming the new law of the land."
I hope the government would
I hope the government would pay attention to that dilemma and that they will do something to fix it. I totally agree that the internet is becoming hyper-commercialized and that people shouldn’t be paying a single penny just to use it. used gun cabinets
Who knows where to download
Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium?
Help, please. All recommend this program to effectively advertise on the Internet, this is the best program!
there isnt anything
there isnt anything governtment doesnt want to regulate - ever increasing budgets so that the their money flow doesn't diminish if they don't spend it - essentially US federal government has become ANTI-savings.
Randy Weaver (of Ruby Ridge and the story of a sawed off shotgun and an undercover federal agent) said they'd have you get a walking permit if they thought they could.
I don't know where to begin.
I don't know where to begin. You obviously haven't learning anything from our last discussion on this!
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I agree NN might not be required yet, but your suggestion that "these people" who advocate NN are of a socialist/anti-capitalist position is ludicrous. This is sheer laziness on your part. "Oh those darn socialists... will they every learn?" How can you so easily dismiss what is a REASONABLE position on a very complex topic?
And you approach this issue as if a viable free market exists that provides the public with reasonable ISP alternatives. Most people only have two ISP choices. Neither of which is often a good option.
With all due respect, your commentary is a mixed of bag of a limited understanding and free market platitudes. I encourage you to do some real study on this issue if you plan to be the Libertarian spokeswoman on this topic. Otherwise you're just a female Glenn Beck.
Ha - Well... Check this
Ha - Well...
Check this out:
http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/246.php
McChesney is the guy who co-founded Freepress.org, one of the biggest proponents of Net Neutrality. I definitely wish I had clarified that, but I get nervous and, well, you see what happens ;)
And as far as the competition thing, you might be right. But we haven't had the opportunity to test it, since no ISP has done something that egregiously violates Net Neutrality principles. The few cases I've seen have been or are being dealt with. No?
So again, I don't think changes are justified at this point (I think we maybe agree on that), and I'd rather wait until we have a specific case to address rather than enacting a bunch of rules that could never effectively address all of the various hypotheticals that *could* happen one day.
This sums up your basic
This sums up your basic ISP:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/want-50mbps-internet-in-...
Money grubbers.
So if the government wants to enact rules to ensure that providers do not restrict bandwidth on certain ports or to certain sites, I'm all for it. And it seems that you would agree that regulation is necessary when the problems suggested are problems to be dealt with, so why not nip it in the bud now with government legislation? After all, our funky uncles on the conservative side of the fence have decided to take the other extreme and are attempting to bar FCC regulations altogether.
Very interesting link! I am a
Very interesting link! I am a bit surprised at how blatantly anti-capitalist they are making net neutrality sound. It doesn't seem to bother the socialists at all, but for those of us who cherish freedom it is very alarming.
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