I hope McCain can keep this going, but the Democrats will probably crush this.

I'd also like to know just what is in this bill.

I think it's wrong and silly to try to sensor the Internet. I think it's misleading to as the best form of control ultimately is a free internet that everyone voluntarily attaches them selves grid like too.

Ultimately the governments and coporations can spy on us, that's fine as one of the best ways to keep people honest is to let them honestly communicate and be revealing about their own intentions.

I love the internet I make a portion of my income and living off the internet and computers and have from almost the moment the old DOS based systems starting popping up.

The truth is though that the planet survived well for thousands of years without the internet and as convenient as the internet is for those of us who use it for work and entertainment and education by far and away its the most powerful tool ever invented in creating a control grid.

In a way the Internet has become the world's collective concsious and is doing through a science that we can all agree is real what spiritually and metaphysically many people feel is impossible.

Me I am not sure it is science, email and instant messages sure do travel fast!

We all seem to love it and think it's real and when the powers that be pretend it might be a threat to their power I think they are using reverse psychology and are being disengenous.

calling Net Neutrality Net Neutrality makes no sense to me
it's like callling the patriot act the patriot act
they should call it the Net Bias Rule

they have no right to do anything

that's like saying if I buy buy a specific dish at a restaurant I should be served extremely slowly.

Get Out of business GOVT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO AWAY

Once they begin their manipulation, equalizing, politically correcting, censoring, etc. my fracking internet. This is when I join my one man militia group.

Oh wait, I have already accused them of censoring. Well everyone knows what that means.

Time to begin.

Keep their grubby hands off our fracking last bastion of free speech and news.

Go get em McCain. Be a hero one more time!

Just another case showing McCain truly has the American peoples interest at heart... mostly. Id say hes on of the cleaner politicians around. Hope this gets pushed through.

Originally posted by vkey08

McCain on Thursday introduced the Internet Freedom Act, which would keep the FCC from enacting rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Internet content and applications. Net neutrality rules would create “onerous federal regulation,” McCain said in a written statement.

McCain's so-called "Internet Freedom Act" would allow your broadband provider to block or slow your internet content and applications as they like. For example, your provider could block your access to ATS or make it very difficult if they felt like it.

Right now net neutrality prevents that.

McCain's "Freedom" only applies to broadband providers, not to consumers.

I know nobody on here likes anything federal, but if you don't want to go back to the 90's--when, for example, you had to have something like AOL and AOL was selective about where they would let you go on the internet--then we need to continue to have net neutrality.

I'm astounded people are supporting this. I will laugh when they try to go to ATS and are directed to an ISP package page. They'll only have to pay their ISP $19.95 a month for the conspiracy package. For an additional $10 you can get the search bundle which contains Google, Bing and Yahoo with 100 searches per month then 10c per search thereafter.

WAKE THE FRAK UP PPL!!

Face it folks we're all screwed. The government has too much power. From censorship to taxing soda these rich jerks are commin for everything you have and they'll get it.

Ben Franklin said "those that trade freedom for security deserve neither".

I'm armed to the teeth and ready to take back whats mine.

I'm having trouble understanding this.

McCain on Thursday introduced the Internet Freedom Act, which would keep the FCC from enacting rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Internet content and applications

Which would keep the FCC from enacting rules PROHIBITING broadband providers FROM SELECTIVELY BLOCKING or slowing internet content and applications.

So... The FCC wants to enact rules that stop ISPs from blocking/censoring traffic. This sounds good to me? This would stop cable companies and such from throttling content they don't like, and would lead to more freedom for all of us? It would also mean a level playing field for all internet service providers, as none would be able to provide faster or slower traffic for special services.

Why would McCain want to stop this?

Am I reading this wrong or did everyone else read it wrong?